George Condo, "Double Heads/Black Paintings/Abstractions"

Condo emerged during the 1980s heyday of Neo-Expressionism with a brashly comic style that melded Mad magazine with modern art history. His work wasn’t always to everyone’s taste, but his appropriative takes on 20th-century art are always sincere in their own way, and his technical prowess is hard to ignore. The paintings here revisit Pollock, De Kooning et al. via classic portraiture.