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Sean Scully Explores The Role Of The Square In New Dublin Exhibition

The art of Sean Scully is widely acknowledged as among the most influential proponents of abstraction during the last half-century — particular attention has often been paid to the square’s aesthetic potential and imaginative significance.

Sean Scully: Paul 1984 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

To interpret, through paint, what verbal language cannot. No contemporary painter does this better than Sean Scully.

Artist Power Couple Liliane Tomasko and Sean Scully – Newlands House Exhibition

Artist couple Liliane Tomasko and Sean Scully will present their practices side by side at Newlands House Gallery, West Sussex, for the first time in the UK.

Sean Scully: Philosophical Poetic Pastoral The 12 / Dark Windows – Revd Jonathan Evens

Sean Scully has created new works for this exhibition in the world in which we currently live, with ‘the existential threat from COVID

Sean Scully: Geometry as Gesture as Perception – Raphy Sarkissian

A momentous exhibition staged at the Museum of Fine Arts—Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, “Sean Scully: Passenger—A Retrospective” celebrates

Ellora Sutton and Elsie Hayward Win Inaugural Artlyst Art to Poetry Award

Ellora Sutton and Elsie Hayward have been announced as the inaugural winners of the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award

Sean Scully: Rhythm, Restraint, Splendor – Raphy Sarkissian

Painting, sculpture, architecture: here is a triumvirate wherein painting and sculpture remain in commanding dialogue with architecture throughout the impressive output of Sean Scully, as exemplified in the exhibition titled INSIDEOUTSIDE currently on view at the Villa Waldfrieden and the Cragg Foundation Sculpture Park in Wuppertal

Sean Scully In Conversation With Kelly Grovier – Lockdown 2020 – Video Added

Lockdown 2020 and the art world has been brought to a grinding halt. Major exhibitions that have taken years to plan and organize have been postponed indefinitely or scrapped altogether.

Sean Scully’s Philadelphia Museum Retrospective Postponed

The highly anticipated Philadelphia Museum of Art solo exhibition by the Irish/American artist Sean Scully has been postponed. The announcement was made today 20/04/2020.

Sean Scully Unveils Exhibition At Picasso’s Château de Boisgeloup

A new exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the contemporary Irish/American artist Sean Scully (b. 1945, Dublin) has opened in Picasso’s historic former studio at the Château de Boisgeloup.

Venice Biennale Collateral Exhibitions Provide Calm and Quality

It was a relief to step away from the hustle and bustle of the Giardini and Arsenale, the main venues for the 58th Venice Biennale, to visit exhibitions elsewhere.

Sean Scully Unveils New Sculptural And Figurative Works During Venice Biennale

The Irish/American artist Sean Scully unveils Human: an exhibition of recent works both new and unseen pieces at the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Sean Scully National Gallery – Rembrandt and Now Gagosian – Edward Lucie-Smith

At first glance, the Sean Scully show that just opened at the National Gallery in London couldn’t be more different from the exhibition not far away at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill. It features just one artist, rather than a series of well-known names.

Sea Star: Sean Scully at the National Gallery

Sean Scully: Architecture Of The Sublime – Edward Lucie-Smith

Sean Scully is extremely widely known as a painter. Indeed, I might go so far as to say that he is as widely known as any contemporary painter now living.

Sean Scully Overview Announced For Blain|Southern During London’s Frieze Week

A new exhibition of work by the Abstract painter Sean Scully titled, ‘Uninsideout’, featuring large-scale, multi-panel paintings, as well as works on paper, sculpture and a group of his celebrated Landline paintings has been announced by Blain|Southern

Sean Scully: Uninsideout

Sculpture in the City 2018 Splashes Out On Impressive Free Exhibition

This year’s annual Sculpture in the City’ exhibition (launching on 27 June) will include works from international artists including Sarah Lucas, Sean Scully and Marina Abramovic.

Sean Scully: First UK Sculpture And Painting Exhibition Announced For YSP

Sean Scully is to create an ambitious new exhibition of both his paintings and his less known three-dimensional works, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YPS) in September.

Sean Scully – Newcastle Where It All Began – Edward Lucie-Smith

The new Sean Scully show in Newcastle is spread over two galleries, the Laing and the Hatton, and contains no new work. In fact, very much the opposite, it takes one back to the very beginnings of his career, in the early 1970s, when he was just ‘emerging’ into the art world, from his time […]

Sean Scully Returns To Newcastle And Liverpool For Major Retrospective Exhibitions

The international abstract painter Sean Scully will be exhibited across the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University from 10 February – 28 May 2018.

Sean Scully Indisputably The Most Universal Living Contemporary Artist- Edward Lucie-Smith

One name immediately sprang to mind – that of the born Irish, once British, now American painter Sean Scully.

Sean Scully Works To Be Displayed At Cuadra San Cristóbal Mexico

Works by one of the world’s leading abstract artists, Sean Scully will go on show at Luis Barragán’s iconic modernist landmark, Cuadra San Cristóbal in Mexico City from 7 February – 24 March 2018.

Sean Scully: The Noble Legacy Of Constructivism MAMM Moscow

Sean Scully has been a driving force in Abstract painting since the 1980s.

Sean Scully To Be Represented By Blain|Southern London

The Irish/American Abstract Artist Sean Scully has announced that he is to be represented by Blain| Southern in London. This follows over twenty successful years with Timothy Taylor in Mayfair.

Major Sean Scully Exhibition Set To Tour Russia

The internationally acclaimed abstract artist Sean Scully is to launch a major touring exhibition in Russia following a series of highly successful exhibitions in China. The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow will host the first, opening on 3 November 2017.

Artist Couple Sean Scully and Liliane Tomasko Unveil Exhibition At Kunstwerk – Sammlung Klein

A dual exhibition in Germany brings together works by Sean Scully and Liliane Tomasko, perhaps the greatest artist couple since Motherwell and Frankenthaler.

Liliane Tomasko Bridging Reverie And Reality Marc Straus NY

I would argue that the hardest thing to do, for a seasoned, well-trained, and technically savvy artist, is to paint like a child. After an impressive education at London’s finest art academies, how on earth do you find the faith to follow an innocent impulse? For artist Liliane Tomasko, it was motherhood that forced the new phase in her art practice.

Sean Scully – Paint Speaks Louder Than Words By Edward Lucie – Smith

Sean Scully now increasingly seems like the most remarkable abstract painter of his generation – this, at a time when abstract art, abstract painting, in particular, is increasingly under attack.

New Sean Scully Exhibition Provides Insight Into The Working Artist’s Notebooks

Sean Scully – “I was always looking at the horizon line…One day I was standing off Ireland, on the edge of Aran Is- land, looking out. Next stop, America. Standing on the Old World looking out at….the New World, as many people have done before…. I think of land, sea, sky… I try to paint this, this […]

Artist Sean Scully Mounts Major New Exhibition in Guangzhou China

The second leg of the Irish-born, British artist Sean Scully’s China show, which opens on 6 September at the Guangdong Art Museum in Guangzhou is set to be one of the highlights of the year. Sean’s exhibition tour comes at an interesting crossroads, as China begins to embrace all things abstract and produces more national and international […]