GEORGE CONDO

With all of the negativity in the world out there, art has this opportunity to be very truthful… There’s nothing behind it or nothing constructed about it other than just the process of making it. It’s a very hopeful time for art. The pressure forces good art to take place. Pressure is sort of this key to making good art. Without pressure, art is just on holiday. There’s no reason to stand there and fight.
—George Condo, 2017

Untitled (2017) is part of a series of portraits of women inspired by the Women’s March in Washington DC in January 2017. Characteristically fractured in line with the artist’s self-proclaimed “psychological cubism,” these portraits nonetheless claim an unprecedented stillness for their subjects. The female figure of Untitled demonstrates Condo’s ongoing engagement with Pablo Picasso, tempered by the constructivist logic of Piet Mondrian—an art-historical paradox consonant with Condo’s aim of producing pictorially and psychologically complex works.

GEORGE CONDO
Untitled
2017
Acrylic and oil on linen
92 x 92 inches (233.7 x 233.7 cm)
© George Condo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York