'I'm the Donald Trump of the art world,' Sean Scully jokingly declared in the BBC documentary released in April this year about his art and life as one of the world's wealthiest living artists, in whi
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 Capacit
The 58 th edition of the Venice Biennale, May You Live in Interesting Times curated by Ralph Rugoff–from London’s very own Hayward Gallery–proves to be as interesting as its title promises. Venice
When I became an art critic in 1981 one of the first artists I met and wrote about was Sean Scully. At that time I was teaching philosophy in Pittsburgh and he, having recently moved to New York, was
Between Wimbledon and the FIFA World Cup, there's been plenty of distractions from London's unusually Mediterranean weather of late.
When I was last in New York I took the bus an hour’s ride north of Manhattan, to historic Tappan, and visited Sean Scully in his studio. I first met the contemporary painter at his other New York stud
In 1983, while traveling through Mexico, the Irish-born, American artist [Sean Scully][0] made a series of watercolours inspired by the stacking of stones in Pre-Columbian and vernacular constructions
Gallace's gorgeous paintings tap into a pervasive national anxiety, an ill-defined feeling of threat coupled with a nagging sense that a bright promise is faltering and may be already gone.
In early 2013, Liam Gillick gave a series of four lectures at Columbia University entitled Creative Disruption in the Age of Soft Revolutions, part of the school’s Bampton in America series. These lectures and other writings, released in different publications in the last seven years (including several essays originally published in the...
It’s a sunny autumn day in the small Japanese city of Okayama, and two British men born in the 1960s are conversing about cameras. Liam Gillick and I both own the retro-looking Fujifilm X-Pro1, which we’ve chosen for its impressive price-to-performance ratio. “I’ve used it a lot in my work,” a ruddy-faced, relaxed, and...
The long-term collaborators discuss the London Underground and Parreno's commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall Liam Gillick: We first met in Nice in 1990, didn’t we? I came to look at an exhibition at Air de Paris titled Les Ateliers du paradise. The invitation was intriguing: it was like a credit card, so I asked...
On view at i8 gallery from June 9th-August 6th is a solo show by the Scottish painter, Callum Innes. Born in Edinburgh in 1962, he studied at Gray’s School of Art and the Edinburgh College of Art. Erin Honeycutt sat down with him at i8 gallery the day of the opening to discuss his past and future work.
The Irish-born, London-educated, abstract painter Sean Scully established a signature style of painting nearly four decades ago. The precise year was 1980. This was a time when his clean-cut repression moved toward expulsion, and when all things prior began to come together. He found the linkage. His search for romance as a painter finally took...
Callum Innes sits in the lounge area of the i8 gallery, looking at a flyer while he thinks. He picks up a pen, and unconsciously presses it to the card, about a third of the way in from the left edge. He moves the pen to the centre, and tilts his head slightly, regarding the flyer, now split in two by his line. He shifts the pen to the right edge...
FRIDAY, MAY 20 Opening: Sean Scully at Cheim & Read This show marks a break from the Sean Scully we know, in more ways than one. For starters, these works won’t be on view at Cheim & Read’s white-cube Chelsea space—they’re being shown instead in a temporary, industrial annex in Ridgewood...
We had a chance to speak to the highly [rightfully] lauded painter and printmaker on the eve of his second major retrospective, this time at the University of the Arts in Nanjing. In the early part of your career you used an intersecting line and grid system, resulting in an multilayered optical field, then you began using watercolor, and...
As the most important living master of abstract art, Sean Scully’s second edition of retrospective in China — ‘ Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistence. Paintings 1967-2015. London and New York ’ – will be unveiled at the Art Museum Of Nanjing University of the Arts (AMNUA) on April 8, 2016. The exhibition will then...
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 his art being displayed at a retrospective in Shanghai later this month. Scully, 69, and something of a bear of a man, is delighted that billionaire Chinese...
In a lecture he gave in Vancouver in 2009, Liam Gillick suggested that his career as an artist was catalyzed by an inability to trust his own activity in the field of politics – his first career choi