George Condo - Pastels - New York

George Condo’s two-part exhibition, Pastels, spanning galleries at both Sprüth Magers and Hauser & Wirth in New York City, offers a glimpse into the artist’s creative process and unbound inventiveness through the medium of pastel.

Condo’s new works challenge the limits of improvisation within this medium—spontaneously deploying gesso, fields of color, and dramatic pastel gestures, all without the benefit of preparatory sketches—to express various states of the human psyche.

George Condo
Red Spatial Figure, 2024
Pastel and acrylic on paper
200 × 151.8 cm | 78 3/4 × 59 3/4 inches
208.6 × 161.3 cm | 82 1/8 × 63 1/2 inches (framed)

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Mask, 2024
Pastel and acrylic on paper
198.1 × 151.1 cm | 78 × 59 1/2 inches
208.6 × 161.3 cm | 82 1/8 × 63 1/2 inches (framed)

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George Condo
Red Spatial Figure, 2024
Pastel and acrylic on paper
200 × 151.8 cm | 78 3/4 × 59 3/4 inches
208.6 × 161.3 cm | 82 1/8 × 63 1/2 inches (framed)

George Condo
Red Spatial Figure, 2024 (detail)

George Condo
Red Spatial Figure, 2024

George Condo
Mask, 2024
Pastel and acrylic on paper
198.1 × 151.1 cm | 78 × 59 1/2 inches
208.6 × 161.3 cm | 82 1/8 × 63 1/2 inches (framed)

George Condo
Mask, 2024 (detail)

George Condo
Mask, 2024

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George Condo
Uncle Henry, 2025
Pastel and acrylic on paper
151.1 × 106.7 cm | 59 1/2 × 42 inches
171.1 × 124.1 cm | 67 3/8 × 48 7/8 inches (framed)

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George Condo
Abstract Female Profile, 2025
Pastel and acrylic on paper
152.4 × 106.7 cm | 60 × 42 inches
171.1 × 124.1 cm | 67 3/8 × 48 7/8 inches (framed)

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The artist embraces the act of abstraction within a figural framework in novel ways, materializing the fragmented, elusive nature of ineffable thoughts and feelings.

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George Condo
Uncle Henry, 2025
Pastel and acrylic on paper
151.1 × 106.7 cm | 59 1/2 × 42 inches
171.1 × 124.1 cm | 67 3/8 × 48 7/8 inches (framed)

George Condo
Uncle Henry, 2025 (detail)

George Condo
Uncle Henry, 2025

George Condo
Abstract Female Profile, 2025
Pastel and acrylic on paper
152.4 × 106.7 cm | 60 × 42 inches
171.1 × 124.1 cm | 67 3/8 × 48 7/8 inches (framed)

George Condo
Abstract Female Profile, 2025 (detail)

George Condo
Abstract Female Profile, 2025

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The artist embraces the act of abstraction within a figural framework in novel ways, materializing the fragmented, elusive nature of ineffable thoughts and feelings.

The jagged electricity created by the faceted compositions of these works signals the complex and often conflicted nature of the mind.

George Condo
Frantic Circus Figure, 2024
Pastel and acrylic on paper
199.4 × 151.1 cm | 78 1/2 × 59 1/2 inches
208.6 × 161.3 cm | 82 1/8 × 63 1/2 inches (framed)

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George Condo
Frantic Circus Figure, 2024
Pastel and acrylic on paper
199.4 × 151.1 cm | 78 1/2 × 59 1/2 inches
208.6 × 161.3 cm | 82 1/8 × 63 1/2 inches (framed)

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Frantic Circus Figure, 2024 (detail)

George Condo
Frantic Circus Figure, 2024

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Together, these complementary presentations highlight the sui generis power of Condo’s oeuvre. The presentation at Hauser & Wirth comprises a new series of puzzle-like portraits, which the artist has dubbed his “bizarre characters,” their visages simultaneously splintered and affixed by bright geometric planes.

George Condo
Bilder-Zeichnungen
February 15–March 13, 1984
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne

George Condo
Drawings
October 18–November 22, 2008
Sprüth Magers, Berlin

George Condo
March 23–June 19, 1999
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne

George Condo
Entrance to the Void
April 20–June 11, 2016
Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles

At Sprüth Magers, Condo—who has been affiliated with the gallery since mounting one of the first solo exhibitions of his career at Galerie Monika Sprüth in 1984—presents frenzied color compositions alongside a series of new black-and-white pastels that incorporate deliberate drips and spatters of colored pigment.

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George Condo
Bilder-Zeichnungen
February 15–March 13, 1984
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne

George Condo
Drawings
October 18–November 22, 2008
Sprüth Magers, Berlin

George Condo
March 23–June 19, 1999
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne

George Condo
Entrance to the Void
April 20–June 11, 2016
Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles

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George Condo
Open Forms, 2024
Pastel, gesso, metallic paint and thrown pigment on paper
199.4 × 148.6 cm | 78 1/2 × 58 1/2 inches
208.6 × 161.3 cm | 82 1/8 × 63 1/2 inches (framed)

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George Condo
Open Forms, 2024
Pastel, gesso, metallic paint and thrown pigment on paper
199.4 × 148.6 cm | 78 1/2 × 58 1/2 inches
208.6 × 161.3 cm | 82 1/8 × 63 1/2 inches (framed)

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Open Forms, 2024 (detail)

George Condo
Open Forms, 2024

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George Condo
No Direction Home, 2024
Pastel, gesso, metallic paint and thrown pigment on paper
199.1 × 151.8 cm | 78 3/8 × 59 3/4 inches
208.6 × 161.3 cm | 82 1/8 × 63 1/2 inches (framed)

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George Condo
No Direction Home, 2024
Pastel, gesso, metallic paint and thrown pigment on paper
199.1 × 151.8 cm | 78 3/8 × 59 3/4 inches
208.6 × 161.3 cm | 82 1/8 × 63 1/2 inches (framed)

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No Direction Home, 2024 (detail)

George Condo
No Direction Home, 2024

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Here, overlapping and intersecting shapes that might typically suggest figurative elements forego any reference to the human face, emphasizing instead the gesture, line and rhythm of their making.

With such titles as Centrifuge, Open Forms, No Direction Home, and Chaotic Combustion, these recent paintings evoke fluidity and tumult—Condo’s reflection, perhaps, on his ricocheting innermost feelings and thoughts. Taken together, the works across both locations form a visual essay on the flair and diversity of Condo’s draftsmanship, exceptional sense of color, and mastery of any material.

All installation views: Genevieve Hanson

George Condo
Pastels
January 29–March 1, 2025
New York

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