Gus Van Sant
Mona Lisa #4, 2021
Oil on canvas
73 x 59 inches (185.4 x 149.9 cm)
© Gus Van Sant; photo by Flying Studio. Courtesy the artist and Vito Schnabel Gallery
Gus Van Sant is perhaps best known as a director—he won the 1998 Oscar for Best Director for his work on Good Will Hunting. But in the 1970s, Van Sant studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, and in recent years he’s been exhibiting his studio art.