George Condo's "Altered States" series, presented in 2014, showcases his innovative approach to portraiture through a series of dark, sepulchral ink drawings. This work, displayed at the Skarstedt Gallery, marks a significant phase in Condo's exploration of the human psyche, integrating techniques across drawing and painting into unified artworks. His portraits, characterized by a fusion of psychological cubism, reconfigured faces, and abstracted bodies, burst with manic energy, challenging traditional boundaries between abstraction and figuration​ (Phaidon)​.