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48-494: Founded as Pyramid Arts Center in 1977 by Tony Petracca and Gina Mosesson, the center was located in several different storefronts and warehouse spaces around Rochester. In 2001, the organization rebranded and moved to its current location in Rochester's East End District. In 2007, it initiated First Friday , a monthly citywide gallery night involving up to thirty other art venues throughout the city of Rochester. In December 2012,

96-834: A court jester was installed on the façade of the Metropolitan Opera House , advertising the Met's new production of Verdi 's Rigoletto . In 2016 the Berggruen Museum in Berlin honored Condo with the exhibition George Condo. Confrontation . In 2017, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., presented George Condo: The Way I Think, 1962 - 2017 . The exhibition is a major survey of Condo's drawings and "drawing paintings" that will travel to

144-709: A silk screen shop and joined the proto-synth/punk band The Girls as a bassist, with abstract painter Mark Dagley, avant-garde musician Daved Hild , and Robin Amos , founding member of Cul de Sac. Their only single, "Jeffrey I Hear You"/"Elephant Man" (1979) was produced by David Thomas of Pere Ubu . Condo met Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1979 when Basquiat's band Gray opened for the Girls at the downtown nightclub Tier 3 . After this meeting Condo moved to Ludlow Street in New York City to pursue his career as an artist. He became

192-600: A B.A. degree in Fine Art at Bath School of Art and Design (1985–1988) and an M.A. degree at Goldsmiths College (1990–1992). Brown appropriates images by living, working artists, such as Frank Auerbach and Georg Baselitz , as well as paintings by historical artists, such as Guido Reni , Diego Velázquez , Anthony van Dyck , Rembrandt , Jean-Honoré Fragonard , Eugène Delacroix , John Martin , Gustave Courbet , Adolph Menzel , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Vincent van Gogh , Chaïm Soutine and Salvador Dalí . He claims that

240-488: A chapter inspired by Condo's 1994 oil painting The Psychoanalytic Puppeteer Losing His Mind . American fiction writer David Means also used a Condo painting, The Fallen Butler (2010), as inspiration for his short story "The Butler's Lament", which appears in the catalogue for the exhibition Mental States , a mid-career survey of the artist's paintings and sculptures organized by the Hayward Gallery , London, and

288-481: A founding member of the punk/blues band Hi Sheriffs of Blue in 1980. When he emerged in the East Village art scene in the early 1980s, Condo coined the term Artificial Realism, "the realistic representation of that which is artificial", to describe his hybridization of traditional European Old Master painting with a sensibility informed by American pop. Along with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring , Condo

336-675: A reprinting of Felix Guattari's original text from 1990. In 2011, the New Museum in New York City opened a mid-career retrospective of Condo's work titled Mental States . This watershed exhibition was critically acclaimed by Holland Cotter of The New York Times as "sensational". The show traveled to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam , the Hayward Gallery , and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt . In 2013, Condo's large black-and-white banner featuring

384-469: A series of paintings for West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and various singles. Kanye West used to use a Condo painting as his Twitter image, and Condo has painted a Hermès Birkin Bag for West that West gave to Kim Kardashian . Condo also produced four alternate copies of the album cover that, although not included on the actual cover of the record, came included with certain productions of

432-533: A t-shirt with Adam Kimmel for Barneys New York . Condo's work has also been featured on the covers of the Phish album The Story of the Ghost (Elektra, 1998), Danny Elfman 's Serenada Schizophrana (2006), and Franck Debussy Schumann by Dora Schwarzberg and Martha Argerich (AventiClassic, 2006), among others. Most recently, Condo painted an abstracted portrait of the opera countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo for

480-495: A vast number of reproductions from books and digitally manipulated them by stretching them to standard sizes. He then layered selected scans over each other, resulting in single images. The many contour and incarnation lines of the original works (the artist used up to fifteen different image sources for one layered portrait), as well as the textured spots of lithographic printing, obscure the sitters' individual identities. The resulting half-length portraits are "de-individualised" by

528-575: Is an American visual artist who works in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. He lives and works in New York City. Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire . He studied art history and music theory at the University of Massachusetts Lowell . Throughout his early life he studied guitar and music composition while pursuing his lifelong interest in painting and drawing. After two years at UMass Lowell, he moved to Boston , where he worked in

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576-644: Is then a very specific 'Condo effect' which separates you from all the painters you seem to reinterpret. You sacrifice everything to this effect, particularly pictorial structure, which you systematically destroy, thus removing a protective guardrail, a frame of reference which might reassure the viewer, who is denied access to a stable set of meanings." (Felix Guattari, 1990) Throughout his career as an artist, Condo's work has served as an influence and inspiration to contemporary writers including Burroughs, Guattari, Demosthenes Davvetas, Donald Kuspit , Wilfried Dickhoff, and Salman Rushdie , whose 2001 novel Fury includes

624-551: The 2024 United States presidential election , Condo was one of 165 leading contemporary artists who contributed pieces to Artists for Kamala , an online sale with all proceeds raised going directly to Kamala Harris ' campaign. Glenn Brown (artist) Glenn Brown CBE (born 1966 in Hexham , Northumberland ) is a British contemporary artist known for the use of appropriation in his paintings. Starting with reproductions from other artists' works, Glenn Brown transforms

672-957: The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk , Denmark, in the fall of 2017. Condo's work is in the permanent collections of several New York museums, namely the Museum of Modern Art , the Whitney Museum , the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Albright-Knox Museum , the Corcoran Gallery of Art , Washington D.C., and the Broad Foundation , Los Angeles, among other American and European museums and public collections. In 2000, Condo

720-1009: The Ludwig Múzeum in Budapest in 2010, at the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh in Arles , in Provence , in 2016 and at the Landesmuseum and Sprengel Museum in Hanover in 2023. Brown currently resides and works in London and Suffolk, England. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000. However, his exhibition at Tate Britain for the Turner Prize sparked some controversy, as one of his paintings

768-433: The New Museum , New York, in 2011. Allen Ginsberg , a close friend and frequent visitor to Condo's Paris studio, where he photographed the artist on several occasions, asked Condo to paint his portrait for the cover of his Selected Poems: 1947-1995 , published in 1996 by HarperCollins . Condo's paintings, like The Orgy (2004), Superman (2005), Batman and Bunny (2005), Maja Desnuda (2005), Dreams and Nightmares of

816-465: The American writer and artist Brion Gysin , who in turn later introduced him to William S. Burroughs . Condo and Burroughs collaborated on numerous paintings and sculptures between 1988 and 1996. Selected works from their collaborations were exhibited in 1997 at Pat Hearn Gallery, New York. Condo and Burroughs also worked together on a collection of writings and etchings titled Ghost of Chance , which

864-708: The Mulheimer Freiheit group, including Walter Dahn and Jiri Georg Dokoupil . His first solo exhibition in Europe was in 1984 at Monika Sprüth Gallery. While still in Europe Condo met and began working with American art dealer Barbara Gladstone , and in 1984 had a simultaneous two-gallery exhibition in New York at Pat Hearn and Barbara Gladstone Galleries. Already close friends with Basquiat by this time, Condo met Keith Haring on returning to New York, and

912-703: The New Museum, New York. In 2004, Condo taught a six-month course at Harvard University entitled Painting Memory . Condo has been showing with Sprüth Magers since 1984, Simon Lee since 1998, Skarstedt since 2005, and Xavier Hufkens since 2006. In January 2020, Condo signed on exclusively with Hauser and Wirth and Sprüth Magers. His painting Force Field (2010) set his auction record of $ 6.85 million at Christie's Hong Kong in July 2020. Condo married actress Anna Achdian in 1989. They have two daughters, Eleonore and Raphaelle. They divorced in 2016. Ahead of

960-579: The Queen (2006), and God (2007), place archetypal human figures in a world of humorous, grotesque painting style that the artist refers to as Psychological Cubism. In addition to commissions for book covers, such as Jack Kerouac 's Book of Sketches (Penguin Poets, 2006), for which he also wrote the introduction, Condo has also created or designed album covers for numerous musicians. Most notably, in 2010 Condo collaborated with rapper Kanye West and created

1008-542: The Rochester Contemporary Art Center launched what has become a growing international small art phenomenon known as 6x6 . Each year, 6x6 returns with thousands of original artworks, made and donated by celebrities, international and local artists, designers, college students, youths, and others. Each artwork is 6x6 square inches, signed only on the back, and exhibited anonymously. All entries are accepted, exhibited and are available for sale to

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1056-470: The United States and Europe. In New York, Condo and Joseph Glasco maintained studios at I Bond Street and became good friends. Condo, Glasco and Julian Schnabel were preparing for exhibitions with Leslie Waddington 's gallery in London during that time. After Condo moved to Paris, Glasco stayed in his apartment in Île de la Cité one summer in the late 1980s. In Paris, Haring introduced Condo to

1104-777: The appropriated image by changing its colour, position, orientation, height and width relationship, mood and/or size. Despite these changes, he has occasionally been accused of plagiarism . He has had a number of solo exhibitions: at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2004, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 2008, at Tate Liverpool in 2009 (later shown at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin ), at

1152-477: The artist uses reproductions printed in exhibition catalogues, found on the internet, or ordered through print-on-demand companies. Brown's paintings, which are uniformly smooth in surface, typically offer a trompe-l'œil illusion of turbulent, painterly application. Many viewers of his work have expressed the sensation of wanting to "lick" and "touch" the paintings. Brown uses thin brushes with which he produces elongated curls and twists. The resulting flatness of

1200-457: The center announced the purchase of its 137 East Ave. facility and the launch of their first-ever capital campaign, The Future Fund . The Rochester Contemporary Art Center currently has over 850 members, about 60% of which are artists. Member artists participate in an annual Members' Exhibition. The center exhibits several exhibitions in its main gallery per year in addition to hosting 18-20 smaller exhibitions, performances and events. In 2008,

1248-435: The cover of his first album ARC, released in 2018 by DeccaGold and featuring recordings of works by Philip Glass and George Frideric Handel. In 2020, Condo collaborated with rapper Travis Scott and created the artwork for Scott's single " Franchise ". In 2005 the Museum der Moderne Salzburg and Kunsthalle Bielefeld co-organized the exhibition George Condo: One Hundred Women , curated by Dr. Thomas Kellein. The exhibition

1296-750: The deliberate accumulation of too many portraits over each other. The etchings were collated in Glenn Brown: Etchings (Portraits) , published by Ridinghouse in 2009 which featured a specially commissioned text by John-Paul Stonard that discusses elements of the old and the new in the portraits as they embody concepts of destruction and the violence of appropriation. In the last few years, Brown has extensively embraced drawing. Still conceptually rooted to art historical references, he stretches, combines, distorts and layers images to create subtle yet complex line-based works. Brown: “I fell completely in love with drawing again about four years ago. I love

1344-760: The delicate intimate movement of the hand as it draws a line. With Goltzius , for instance, you get this thrill of delicacy. Drawing has a freshness and passion painting often doesn’t.” "In drawings produced since 2013, artists of the Renaissance (such as Andrea del Sarto ), Mannerism ( Bartholomäus Spranger ), the Baroque ( Peter Paul Rubens ), the Rococo ( Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ), Neoclassicism ( Pompeo Girolamo Batoni ) and French Romanticism ( Eugène Delacroix ) have served as starting points for Brown’s eminently variable linear transformations." In 2000 Brown

1392-684: The grave, as it were, and to be not quite of this world. I would like them to exist in a dream world, which I think of as being the place that they occupy, a world that is made up of the accumulation of images that we have stored in our subconscious, and that coagulate and mutate when we sleep." Many of Brown's portraits depict amorphous beings that have been described as "tumurous lumps that look like outsized, inflamed organs". Often they are ironically attributed with recurring features such as flowers growing out of their compost-like bodies, hallows placed over heads or red noses. In few of these amorphous and abstract forms, female figures are embedded within

1440-454: The mottling masses of unidentifiable matter. Brown also places sculpture as a central point of his practice. They are created by accumulating thick layers of oil paint over structures or "often a found bronze sculpture , such as an equestrian figure or the human figure. Brown uses one large brush throughout the making of the sculpture. He paints shadows on the works to give them a light and dark side." His sculptures, deliberately emphasising

1488-478: The painting alludes to its origin as the chosen photograph or digital image. Per the artist Michael Stubbs: "Brown‘s computer-based preparation method prior to painting is [not] the sole reason for his relation with the digital. The computer increases and develops his choices of found imagery, but it is only a means, not the end. […]. On the contrary, his works are markers for the future of painting because they are both surface effect and material methodology, not despite

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1536-637: The painting is less direct, but I don‘t want the paintings to be illustrative." The subject matters of Glenn Brown's paintings range from science-fiction landscapes to abstract compositions and figurative images based on art historical references. Most paintings share a morbid, almost creepy atmosphere, which is especially underlined by the incorporation of certain unsightly physical features of his figures such as yellowish decaying teeth, translucently white blind-looking eyeballs, unnatural skin colours and suggestions of foulness and smell emanating from figures' bodies. Brown: "I like my paintings to have one foot in

1584-437: The public by putting them in vitrines. As a result, I was able to make them more delicate, and at the same time I started to use more complex supporting structures inside them. It is these supports that allow the sculptures to tilt and lean as much as they do." In 2008 Brown created a series of prints entitled "Layered Etchings (Portraits)" which were inspired by the artists Urs Graf , Rembrandt and Lucian Freud . Brown scanned

1632-705: The public for $ 20 each (in the gallery and online for global purchasing) to benefit the center. Artist names are revealed to the buyer upon purchase. There is no fee to enter in the International Small Art Phenomenon. Previous submissions include artworks from George Condo , Andrea Barrett , Wendell Castle , Garth Fagan , Philip Glass , Albert Paley , Joel Seligman , Louise Slaughter , Lovely A. Warren , and Danny Wegman . 43°09′24″N 77°36′04″W  /  43.156720°N 77.601042°W  / 43.156720; -77.601042 George Condo George Condo (born 1957)

1680-512: The public in October 2022, The Brown Collection displays Brown's personal collection, combining his work and work by other artists. The renovated 1905 mews warehouse has four floors of exhibition space, an archive and offices. The museum is open Wednesday to Saturday, between 10.30 am and 6 pm with no admission fee. The museum answers Brown’s long-held desire for a permanent place in London to show his collection. Viewing The Brown Collection like

1728-502: The record on vinyl and as individual posters. All variations reflect themes found throughout the West album, and were all considered for the cover. The final design, depicting a demonic caricature of the artist with a female phoenix on his lap and bottle in his hand, was even censored by iTunes , and the album cover is now a blurred version of the Condo painting. That same year, Condo released

1776-440: The references to these artists are not direct quotations, but alterations and combinations of several works by different artists, although the artists whose work is appropriated do not always agree. Art critic Michael Bracewell said Brown is "less concerned with the art-historical status of those works he appropriates than with their ability to serve his purpose – namely his epic exploration of paint and painting." In most cases,

1824-599: The same title, George Condo: Mental States (Hayward Publishing). In 1999, Condo received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters , and in 2005 he received the Francis J. Greenburger Award. He has been invited to lecture at many prestigious institutions including Columbia University , Yale University , Pasadena Art Center, San Francisco MOMA, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and

1872-413: The screen, but because of it. " A lot of his titles refer to titles of albums, film titles, science fiction literature, or a specific dedication to a person. The titles are not obviously connected to the paintings themselves and are not meant to be descriptive of the artwork. Brown: "That‘s it – the titles are often trying to be embarrassingly direct, and vulgar in their directness. I don‘t think that

1920-471: The silkscreen production studio applying diamond dust to Warhol's Myths series. He moved briefly to Los Angeles and had his first solo exhibition there in 1983 at Ulrike Kantor Gallery. In Los Angeles, he would visit the Whisky a Go Go with Basquiat. After returning to New York later that year he made his first trip to Europe. Condo moved to Cologne , Germany, where he met and worked with several artists from

1968-526: The three-dimensional quality of oil brushstrokes, stand in stark contrast to his flat paintings. Brown: "Originally I presented the sculptures on the gallery floor to look as abject as possible, as if they had materialised from a painting and fallen to the ground. Also, I wanted to avoid the artificial context involved in putting them on a pedestal. To view them, you had to bend or crouch down, lowering yourself to their somewhat debased position. But they were just getting destroyed, so they had to be separated from

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2016-670: The two remained lifelong friends until Haring's death from AIDS in 1990. Several of Condo's most significant works from this period, such as Dancing to Miles (1985), which was included in the 1987 Whitney Biennial and is now in the collection of the Broad Foundation in Los Angeles, were painted in Haring's East Village studio. Between 1985 and 1995 Condo lived and worked mostly in hotels and rented studios between Paris and New York, while continuing to exhibit extensively in

2064-518: Was accompanied by a monograph featuring essays by Margrit Brehm, Stacey Schmidt, and Kellein. In 2009 the Musee Maillol, Paris, organized the exhibition George Condo: The Lost Civilization featuring paintings, drawings, and sculpture created between 2003 and 2008. The monograph published by Gallimard in conjunction with the exhibition featured new writings on the artist's work by Didier Ottinger, Bertrand Lorquin, and Massimiliano Gioni, as well as

2112-947: Was accused of plagiarism by The Times . Glenn Brown referenced a work by Tony Roberts for a science fiction novel cover. The photographer Wolfgang Tillmans won the Turner prize that year, and a legal case brought by Roberts against Brown was settled out of court. Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago Arts Council Collection , London British Museum , London Delfina Foundation , London Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo , Turin FRAC - Limousin, Limoges Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice Musée National d'Art Moderne , Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Rennie Collection, Vancouver Tate , London The Laing Art Gallery , Newcastle The Museum of Modern Art , New York The New Art Gallery , Walsall Walker Art Center , Minneapolis V-A-C Collection, Moscow Zabludowicz Collection , London Opened to

2160-632: Was found to be closely based on the science-fiction illustration "Double Star" created by the artist Tony Roberts in 1973. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to art. Brown opened his own museum in October 2022 named The Brown Collection in Marylebone , London . Brown completed his Foundation Course at Norwich School of Art & Design (1985) and later received

2208-500: Was instrumental in the international revival of painting from the 1980s onward. His work has influenced many artists of his and the subsequent generation, including Nigel Cooke, Sean Landers , John Currin , Lisa Yuskavage and Glenn Brown . The first public exhibitions of his work took place in New York City at various East Village galleries from 1981 to 1983. During this period he worked in Andy Warhol 's factory, primarily in

2256-559: Was published by the Whitney Museum in 1991. While in Paris, Condo also met and befriended philosopher and semiotician Félix Guattari , best known for his collaborations with Gilles Deleuze , when Condo was working in a studio in the apartment building where Guattari resided. Guattari wrote extensively on Condo's work, including an introductory text and interview in the exhibition catalogue for Condo's 1990 solo exhibition at Galerie Daniel Templon . Of Condo's paintings Guattari wrote: "There

2304-715: Was the subject of the documentary film Condo Painting , directed by John McNaughton . The film, which follows the progress of Condo's large-scale oil painting Big Red over the course of one year, features an appearance by Allen Ginsberg , as well as footage of Condo collaborating with William S. Burroughs on paintings the two made together at Burroughs' Kansas home in the mid-1990s. There has been extensive critical writing about Condo's work. Several monographs have been published, including The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo (powerHouse), George Condo: Sculpture by Thomas Kellein (Hatje Kanz), George Condo: One Hundred Women (Hatje Kanz), and in conjunction with an exhibition of

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