Over two years, Van Hanos completed dozens of paintings—then erased nearly all of them. Taking solvents to their surfaces in March 2026, Hanos removed layers of imagery in a sudden act of iconoclasm responding to both personal and political concerns. For two decades, Hanos has worked against consistency in painterly style; this exhibition takes that resistance to its limit. Psychic Death presents what remains: palimpsests in reverse, spectral residues of color and material where muteness becomes the only contest to the tyranny of the image.
