Artist Statement
My work engages a fundamental duality: a full embrace of painting, despite my ambivalence about its limitations as a live and contingent medium; and exchange of artworks as a way to produce new meanings.
In my practice the work is only (temporarily) complete while shared with others. This completion manifests as creative collaboration. Just over a year ago I showed a series of works at West Street Gallery, an apartment space operated by friends and colleagues. Each work in the show was made specifically as a gift for a person who have supported my direction and/or contributed to my imagery. To stress the incompleteness of this project, each image was a detail of a previous larger painting. I am including images of works from this show, as well as subsequent drawings and paintings that partake in that image database.
Another example of the changing relationships between works is presenting here in two works, both titled “Candle Maker’s Lamp”. (2008 and 2012) They are part of an life long cyclical project, accounting for growth every four years.
Van Hanos
Born in 1979 in Edison, NJ
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
2010 MFA School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY
2001 BFA Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD
Solo Exhibitions
2011 VAN HANOS, West Street Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
In plain sight, Mitchell Innes & Nash, New York, NY
Group Show, West Street Gallery, New York, NY
3 CATS, BC, New York, NY
THE REAL CONQUESTS, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles, CA
THE END, Vogt Galley, New York, NY (Curated by Michael Bühler-Rose & John Connelly}
2011
HEADS WITH TAILS, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY (Curated by West Street Gallery)
TUESDAY, Mixed Greens, New York, NY (Curated by Amani Olu)
2010
IT’S ALL AMERICAN, New Jersey Museum Of Contemporary Art, Asbury Park, NJ (Curated by Alex Gartenfeld & Haley Mellin)
THE IRASCIBLES: NEW PAINTINGS FROM NEW YORK, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
BOSCH YOUNG TALENT SHOW, AKV | St. Joost, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
CONVERSAZIONE, Galleria Pianissimo, Milan, Italy (Curated by Marco Antonini)
A FAILED ENTERTAINMENT, LeRoy Neiman Center, Columbia University, New York, NY (Curated by Sam Ekwurtzel)
2008
WITHOUT WALLS, Museum 52, New York, NY
THE FORM ITSELF, Priska C. Juschka, New York, NY (Curated by Michael Bühler-Rose),
WHAT THE MIDNIGHT CAN SHOW US, Museum 52, New York, NY (Curated by Liz Jonckheer)
CUBE PASSERBY 2008, Gavin Brown Enterprises, Passerby Gallery, New York, NY (Curated by Michael Caputo)
2005
THE MOST SPLENDID APOCALYPSE, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY (Curated by
Jason Murison)
DELICATE DEMONS & HEAVENLY DELIGHTS, Oliver Kamm/5BE, New York, NY (Curated by Kamrooz Aram & Jessica Lin Cox)
KA/VH: RA/AG, Oliver Kamm 5BE Gallery, New York, NY
WHITE PAGE, Pickled Art Center, Beijing, China (Curated by Marco Antonini)
Bibliography
2012
Bessie Zhu, Bathos of a Profound TItle: THE END at Vogt, Artcritical.com Feb. 16
2011
Lumi Tan, VAN HANOS, New York Critic’s Pick, Artforum.com, May
2010
Robyn Dutra, MADE IN AMERICA, Soma Magazine, November
MERTO SECTION, New York Times NJ Region, November 12,
Gerrit Van Den Hoven, JEROEN BOSCH KIJKT VANACHTER GASSDOEK TOE, Kunst/Culture, Brabants Dagblag, Netherlands, July 15
Guia Cortassa, CONVERSAZIONE, Flash Art Italy, Issue #283, March
Valentina Rapino, HUBBARD, HANOS, KITSON, Exibart, April 9
Sara Clemente, ‘JEST’ REIGNS AT LEROY NEIMAN, Columbia Spectator, February 9
2009
Talia Chetrit, VAN HANOS’S HARLEM STUDIO, The Highlights, February 10
2008
Marco Antonini, INTERVIEW WITH VAN HANOS, WhiteHot Magaizine, October
2007
Mark Jacobs, STYLE; COAST LINES, New York Times Magazine, March 4
2006
Otino Corsano, HOUSE ARREST: INTERVIEW WITH VAN HANOS, ArtUS, Issue #13, May
2005
Roberta Smith, KA/VH: RA/AG, Featured Listings, New York Times, March 18 2005
Hynek Pallas, THE STATE OF THE ART, Bon Magazine, International Edition, September
2004
Claudia Wu, MEET JOSHUA ABELOW, Me Magazine, Interview with Van Hanos, Issue #1, Fall