Sean Scully, “Eleuthera” (2017), oil on aluminum, 85 x 75 inches (all images © Sean Scully, all images courtesy the artist) When I became an art critic in 1981 ...

The abstract painter shows a mind-boggling degree of self-regard in a new BBC film about his life, our columnist writes. Of late, Sean Scully’s signature stripes have shed their formal rigidity and ...

In the summer of 1982, Sean Scully spent a month at the Edward Albee Foundation’s Barn in Montauk, N.Y. The then 37-year-old artist, born in Dublin and raised in London, had been living in New York ...

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 ...

11.5 x 11.5 x 1 in. (29.2 x 29.2 x 2.5 cm.) ...

Trying to find 'Sean Scully: Art Comes from Need' on any device? Tracking down where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to rent or buy the Hans A. Guttner-helmed movie can be confusing so we at ...

Sean & Oisin Scully, "Jack the Wolf" (2015), watercolor, ink and pencil on paper, 22 1/4 x 14 7/8 inches (© Sean Scully, photography Brian Buckley) As parents know, a child’s favorite story often gets ...

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 ...

Sean Scully is one of those artists who suffers from the good-new-bad-news situation of having an “iconic style.” The upside: His work is instantly identifiable (not to mention highly sought-after).

60 x 80 cm. (23.6 x 31.5 in.) The multiplicity of abstract compositions that form Scully works have indeed remarkably sensual and emotional qualities. The works achieve this emotional effect thorough ...

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 ...

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 ...