James Ahern Park
At a public launch on September 19th, 2025, My HomeCourt and Providence Parks, will unveil a newly refurbished and designed sports courts at the James Ahern Park on Providence’s west side. The renovated basketball courts will feature a court mural designed by the nationally renowned artist Trenton Doyle Hancock.
The Artist
For almost two decades, Trenton Doyle Hancock has been constructing his own fantastical narrative that continues to develop and inform his prolific artistic output. Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock’s work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the grey in between. Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, OK.
Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. In November 2020, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston unveiled Color Flash for Chat and Chew, Paris Texas in Seventy-Two, Hancock’s monumental tapestry commission, which will remain on permanent display in the Museum’s new Kinder Building. In 2019, a major exhibition of his work, Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass, opened at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. In 2014, his retrospective, Skin & Bones: 20 Years of Drawing, at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston traveled to Akron Art Museum, OH; Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; and Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, VA.
My HomeCourt 2025: Trenton Doyle Hancock is curated by Kate McNamara, Curator-at-large of My HomeCourt and interim Director at the Carpenter Center at Harvard.
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