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 ...

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 ...

In ‘Beyond the Line’ at the Stefan Gierowski Foundation, curator Joachim Pissarro unites the works of Stefan Gierowski and Sean Scully, exploring how their art reflects identity, resistance and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Irish-born painter, now on view at Thaddaeus Ropac in Seoul, reflected on how “the baddest boy in the school” came to embrace abstract art. By Farah Nayeri Reporting from London On a bright summer ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Irish-American abstract artist Sean Scully counts Irish rocker Bono among his pals and collectors. He wouldn't be unhappy if some of China's 1.4 billion people also took a shine to ...

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).