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Sean Scully (born 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American-based painter and printmaker who has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. His work is collected in major museums worldwide.
Scully was born in Dublin and raised in South London. He studied at Croydon College of Art and Newcastle University. He was a recipient of a graduate fellowship at Harvard in the early 1970s and subsequently settled in New York. Scully was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1989 and 1993. He has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, and is represented in the permanent collections of a number of museums and public galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., The Art Institute of Chicago, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the National Gallery of Australia, the Tate Gallery, London, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and many other private and public collections worldwide. In 2006 Scully donated eight of his paintings to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, which opened an extension that year with a room dedicated to Scully's works.
Sean discusses the subject of his painting and the humble project of transformation.
Laurence Topham is given rare access to film abstract artist Sean Scully at his home studio in southern Germany. He discusses the creative process, his latest exhibition in Ludwigshafen and how it feels to be a new father
Santa Cecília de Montserrat és un lloc amarat de significat espiritual, històric i artístic, nascut fa més de mil cent anys, quan tot just Catalunya germinava en el marc de l’Europa carolíngia. L’església romànica, restaurada entre 2013 i 2015 per la Diputació de Barcelona i embellida amb l’art de Sean Scully, ha esdevingut un exemple de la confluència entre cristianisme i art d’avantguarda del més alt nivell. La comunitat benedictina de Montserrat us saluda i us desitja una agradable i fructuosa visita a aquest lloc tan emblemàtic.
Sean discusses success and art.
Sean Scully RA discusses his new series of paintings with Tim Marlow, the RA's Artistic Director. He talks about movement and metaphor within his work, his attempts to catch and hold the light, and the relationship between his paintings, the vertical walls of Venice and the eddying waters beneath.
Sean Scully speaks at the New York Studio School
In 1997 Robert Gardner visited friend and well-known American painter Sean Scully in his Barcelona studio. He documented the making of two paintings, Testigos and Passenger, and the opening of "Sean Scully 1987-1997" at Salas del Palacio Episcopal in Malaga. This DVD, an important document of an influential modern artist, brings together the three short films made during that summer. Testigos is a small painting done when Gardner and Scully worked together in Barcelona. The title, which means 'witnesses,' is the name of a small island in the Caribbean. Testigos, and at least one other painting, was made on the days that the larger canvas Passenger was drying.
Sean Scully's remarkable paintings of bars, blocks and stripes have earned him an international reputation. His work resides in the permanent collections of major museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate Gallery, London and the National Gallery of Australia. His Ookbar, a large-scale, hand-painted canvas from 1993-94, was acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art in 2012. The artist discussed his work and inspiration during a Masters Series presentation in the Museum's Peristyle Theater on May 1, 2014.
http://bigthink.com The artist wants his work to reveal everything all at once. Question: Why did you choose abstraction?Scully: Well, it's quite simple really I think a representational painter wants to show the things in the picture and with an abstract painting what in a sense you are trying to do is make everything happen at once. Now the other day I was in the Bon Art Exhibition. And Bon Art said whose Bon Art figurative painter of course and considered at one point retrograde and anti-madness. Working in the face of abstraction and cubism and hanging on to the figure, relentlessly hanging on to the figure. And he said I want to give the impression that when you walk into a room you see everything and nothing. And I would say that I want to show everything all at once. I on...
Joanna Kleinberg Romanow, co-Curator of Sean Scully: Change and Horizontals, interviews the artist at his studio in January 2013 and discusses the importance of drawing within his prolific practice.
Australian Television- Sean Scully interviewed by Anna Johnson
Sean Scully discusses the works of Matisse
Storyline: Multi-layered, rich-colored, three-dimensional. The Irish-born, New York-based painter Sean Scully’s 20 works will be on display at Mnuchin Gallery in New York City from September 13th through October 22nd. Entitled “Sean Scully: The Eighties”, the solo exhibition of Scully aims to reflect this evolution spanning from 1982 to 1989.
Una multicapa rica en color, en tres dimensiones, presenta la obra del nacido en Irlanda, con sede en Nueva York, 20 obras del pintor Sean Scully, estarán en exhibición en el Mnuchin Gallery a partir del 13 de septiembre hasta el 22 de octubre.
肖恩·斯庫利是當代最重要的油畫大師之一,他一生離經叛道,作品充滿黑暗情緒和元素。 63歲老來得子後,他變成了一個超級奶爸,每天花50%的時間陪兒子在一起,他說:“兒子才是我最偉大的作品”。
Cheim & Read is pleased to present 70's works by artist Sean Scully. This exhibition will be on view at 16-13 Stephen Street, Ridgewood, New York 11385 from May 20 to July 1.
Sean Scully: Bricklayer of the Soul A presentation of the art of Sean Scully from “Walls of Light” to the chapel of Santa Cecilia May 18, 2016 With Fr. Paul ANEL, Art Director, Hearts Home, and Sean SCULLY, (via video), Artist Presented by Crossroads Cultural Center 125 Maiden Lane, NYC
Sean shares some of his life stories including his parents and the early beginnings of his childhood through his adolescence.
Artist Sean Scully in conversation with Sean Rainbird, director of the National Gallery of Ireland on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition 'Sean Scully at the National Gallery of Ireland'. Recorded in the NGI Lecture Theatre on 12 May 2015.
For More Webcasts & Podcasts: http://americanart.si.edu/interact/#webcasts?siref=Youtube&video;=seanscully On May 19th, an eager audience gathered in the McEvoy Auditorium to hear artist Sean Scully, an event that marked the opening of The Prints of Sean Scully. The exhibition features a selection from his complete set of master prints, which the artist donated to the museum's permanent collection. Throughout his lecture, Scully combined his sharp wit and an obvious reverence for the creative process while he discussed the larger themes prevalent in his works, including some examples from the print collection on view in the exhibition. The artist also shared insight into the differences between painting and printmaking, the impact each technique has on his artistic approach and the inspi...