Vacillating between figuration and abstraction, the divergent works of American-born painter Van Hanos (b.1979) traverse genres from landscape and portraiture to still life and collage-like compositions based on found imagery and the artist’s own photographs. This humorous painting belongs to a series documenting Hanos’s time in Vienna, Austria, where, travelling away from his home in Marfa, Texas, he enjoyed the novelty of exploring a new city and discovering the familiar amid the unknown. His Viennese subjects include close-ups of Dutch still life paintings in museums, construction cladding, cafés, municipal fountains and, as here, people in the street. Based on a candid snapshot, Tourists depicts two young women, one of whom is taking a photograph of a small dog peering out from the other’s rucksack. Recalling the work of American photorealist painters from the 1970s, the painstakingly constructed image elevates a fleeting, serendipitous moment to the status of high art.