BGuthrie Photos: DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: George Condo: The Way I Think

DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: George Condo: The Way I Think:

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Description of Pictures: George Condo: The Way I Think
March 11 - June 25, 2017
The Phillips presents a survey of drawings and paintings by George Condo (b. 1957, Concord, New Hampshire), a prolific painter whose career spans three decades and is best known for his rich pictorial inventions, existential humor, and imaginative portraits that incorporate a hybridization of art-historical influences, such as Goya, Velázquez, Manet, Picasso, and Guston.
Working in New York and Paris (where he lived from 1985 to 1995), Condo has long challenged the primacy of painting over drawing. He has never considered painting as fulfillment of his drawing's promise. It is in his drawings that his process of “painting memory” (the title of a course he taught at Harvard University) becomes most undisguised—where he relies on the mind and the imagination to take a “snapshot” rather than photographic material, splits his imaginary subjects into a kind of “psychological cubism,” and allows figurative compositions to be “infested” with abstraction.
This exhibition of more than 200 drawings and sketches and eight “drawing paintings” allow visitors unprecedented insight into the mind and creative process of this extraordinarily imaginative artist.
The exhibition is organized by The Phillips Collection.
With support from the Paula Ballo Dailey Memorial Fund.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. TPCCON_170414_001.JPG: George Condo The Way I Think
2. TPCCON_170414_041.JPG: "Picasso painted a violin from four different perspectives at one time. I do the same with psychological states." -- George Condo George Condo (American, b. 1957) is an extraordinarily prolific painter and sculptor. He is best known for his existential humor and unhinged pictorial inventions that synthesize disparate stylistic elements from 17th-century Venetian and Dutch painting through 20th-century Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art. When Condo emerged as a painter on the New York art scene in the 1980s, he was instrumental in the revival of figuration in American art, along with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Over the decades, Condo's work has consistently surprised and engaged viewers with grotesque yet classical compositions that straddle abstraction and representation, deconstructing and reassembling archetypes found throughout our cultural map-a practice he called "Artificial Realism" and later "Psychological Cubism." Organized in close collaboration with the artist, The Way I Think features more than 200 works on paper, many of them never exhibited before, which turn the artist's practice of conveying the inner emotions and mental states of his imaginary subjects onto himself. It allows for unprecedented insight into the mind of this highly creative artist over nearly 60 years. Interspersed with finished, large- and medium-scale works, are sketches on hotel stationary, small scraps scrawled on various papers, stacks of unopened sketch books, and even some childhood drawings. The exhibition includes a selection of the artist's "Drawing Paintings," an ongoing series begun in 2009 in which Condo challenges the primacy of painting over drawing and explores the reciprocal relationship between the two media that has been an essential part of his artistic practice. The exhibition is organized by The Phillips Collection. With support from the Paula Ballo Dailey Memorial Fund.
3. TPCCON_170414_058.JPG: Aug 27 4:30am I feel better than I have ever felt in my life
4. TPCCON_170414_120.JPG: George Condo The Way I Think George Condo (American, b. 1957) is an extraordinarily prolific painter and sculptor. He is best known for his existential humor and unhinged pictorial inventions that synthesize disparate stylistic elements from 17th-century Venetian and Dutch painting through 20th-century Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art. When Condo emerged as a painter on the New York art scene in the 1980s, he was instrumental in the revival of figuration in American art, along with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Over the decades, Condo's work has consistently surprised and engaged viewers with grotesque yet classical compositions that straddle abstraction and representation, deconstructing and reassembling archetypes found throughout our cultural map-a practice he called "Artificial Realism" and later "Psychological Cubism." Interspersed with finished, large- and medium-scale works, are sketches on hotel stationary, small scraps scrawled on various papers, stacks of unopened sketch books, and even some childhood drawings. The exhibition includes a selection of the artist's "Drawing Paintings," an ongoing series begun in 2009 in which Condo challenges the primacy of painting over drawing and explores the reciprocal relationship between the two media that has been an essential part of his artistic practice.
5. TPCCON_170414_131.JPG: The Fallen Butler, 2009
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