Van Hanos

Cleopatra’s is pleased to present a one night exhibition with artist Van Hanos. The eponymous exhibition title, Mommy’s Boy, is derivative of the painting the artist made of his mother as a young girl.

While the exhibition is open to the public for only the evening of December 3rd, a site specific painting - relative to the dimension of the storefront window in the gallery - will remain on view, visible through the window, until the end of 2017.

Van Hanos (b. 1979) lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited widely, including Tanya Leighton Gallery, Chateau Shatto, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, PPOW Gallery, Harris Lieberman and Mitchell Innes & Nash. Hanos’ work has been described as: “The artists’ approach to painting is valued on difference; one work may be hyperreal - a historical rendition of painting tradition - while another may be an amalgamation of styles stretching from pre-Raphaelite to the editing techniques of Photoshop. Placed in direct dialogue with each other, neither is privileged and neither is employed ironically or in parody. Hanos' range of approaches is held to the same principles that Hanos values not only in painting, but also in his view of life and the images that fill it.”