Sean Scully: Landline

by Hirshhorn, Melissa Chiu (Foreword by), Stephane Aquin (Contribution by), Patricia Hickson (Contribution by), Kelly Grovier (Contribution by)

Overview

The beautiful companion volume to the first U.S. exhibition of influential abstract artist Sean Scully's "Landline" paintings

Sean Scully's acclaimed "Landline" series will be on view at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., from September 2018 through April 2019. This book presents this remarkable group of abstract paintings, along with a foreword by Hirshhorn director Melissa Chiu, essay by curator Patricia Hickson, interview with the artist by curator Stéphane Aquin, and a selection of "Landline"-inspired poems by Kelly Grovier. Known for combining the geometry of European concrete art with the ethereality of American abstraction, Scully is recognized as a leading artist of his generation, and his signature aesthetic overlays thick, gestural brushstrokes on grids of stripes and squares to evoke the energy and beauty of the natural world. The "Landline" paintings and their loose bands of color—sublime in their simplicity—show Scully's transition away from his earlier hard-edged minimalism to his current, more expressive style. Sean Scully: Landline offers readers the chance to experience a seminal shift in the work of one of today's most important abstract artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781588346414
Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication date:	10/16/2018
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 11.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

SEAN SCULLY is one of the world's preeminent abstract artists. He is the recipient of the 2016 Harper's Bazaar Art International Artist of the Year Award and has twice been shortlisted for the Turner Prize. His works are included in the permanent collections of nearly every major museum. THE HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN is the national museum of modern and contemporary art and a leading voice for 21st-century art and culture. With nearly 12,000 paintings, sculptures, photographs, mixed-media installations, works on paper, and new media works, its holdings encompass one of the most important collections of postwar American and European art in the world.