Born in 1957, American visual artist

George Condo

“What I have created is the state in which the image time presencing of another reality is superimposed within a field of another simultaneous presence, creating a conjunctive new hyperreality or hybrid image showing these simultaneous presences.”

artificial realism Art

“I tend to think I can make a hero out of a bum. ”

George Condo

“I love to draw and I love to paint and I thought, why should there be any distinction or hierarchy between those two mediums? Why not put them together as a single thing, the same way I was talking about languages.”

“The figures are dissolving until they finally sort of just become paint again. I think that’s a function of me wanting to say goodbye to some of the characters that have been playing in the last few episodes of my work.”