George Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire, in the late 1950s. When he arrived in New York in the 1980s, he immersed himself in the city’s immense creative energy. He worked alongside Andy Warhol, met Jean-Michel Basquiat and worked closely with Keith Haring and William S. Burroughs. Yet Condo quickly forged his own path, drawing equally on the tradition of portraiture and the irreverent language of underground comics. Fascinated by psychological states and the inner world, his figures oscillate between monstrous aesthetics and sociological critique. Few artists manage, as Condo does, to peer so directly into the contemporary human soul. With an aesthetic distantly related to Cubism and nods to comic art, his dislocated, polymorphic, metamorphic figures move through a full spectrum of emotions: anguish, rage, joy, fear, disgust, surprise. These fractured portraits and tormented imaginings capture, with a fierce intensity, the fragmentary and elusive nature of thought and feeling. In Condo’s hands, more than emotions or moods, what we encounter are eruptions and fields of psychic force.