He has survived loss, breakdown and schooling by ‘scary nuns’, but the anguish is still there in his art. As his new show thrills Paris, the US-based, Irish-born artist talks about the pain that drive ...

Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk is a survey of the artist’s work ranging from 1981 to 2024, exploring his Long Island connection and how a single month spent in Montauk in the summer of 1982 with ...

Hyperallergic Members are invited to join us on November 5, 2025, for a virtual conversation between two leading voices in contemporary art. Poet, critic, and curator John Yau will sit down with ...

Prepared on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. Sean Scully's large-scale canvases carry on the rich legacy of postwar American ...

VENICE — The two most arresting exhibitions I saw among the Venice Biennale’s collateral displays were Sean Scully’s Human and Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to ...

Machine generated contents note: 1981 -- Come and Go -- Spider, site-specific -- Image as Mediator -- 1983 -- Work -- Counterpoint -- Angel -- 1984 -- Simi and ...

Sean Scully is an American-Irish artist known for his abstract paintings composed of brushy layers of alternating colored squares or stripes. Though his non-representational works appear to have no ...

Fort Worth hosts two exhibitions spotlighting the “grid” as a bearer of structural order in painting and the city. The shows feature work from the ’80s–the 1880s and the 1980s, that is. And no two ...