Nino Mier Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the United States by Belgian artist Ben Sledsens, Before the crow crows, opening October 14 and on view until November 25, 2017. Comprised of ten new works, Sledsens utilizes the language of his idiosyncratic painting to explore subjective moments caught between nature, domestic life, pastoral idyll and public space. Influenced by aspects of classic genre painting through post-impressionism and early modernism, Sledsens’ paintings rework historical motifs within distinctly private moments of personal experience, tracing the people, settings and situations — both real and imagined — that order his inner experience of life.