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George Condo&#;s &#;Pastels&#;: A Two-Part Exhibition 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 mediumof 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 expressvarious states of the human psyche.

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

Together, these complementary presentations highlight the sui generis power of Condo’s oeuvre.

The presentationat Hauser & Wirth comprises a new series of puzzle-like portraits, which the artist has dubbed his ‘bizarre characters,’