Sean Scully

Stripe as structure

Sean Scully is an Irish-born American painter known for large gestural stripes and block-like compositions. His works use layered color, texture, and proportion to evoke emotional weight and architectural presence. Scully’s paintings, watercolors, sculptures, and photographs reflect a lifelong engagement with geometry and feeling.

He is recognized as a major figure in contemporary abstract painting.

Sean Scully is an Irish-American painter known for striped abstract compositions with emotional and architectural resonance.

Sean Scully is an abstract painter known for layered stripes and block forms that merge emotional depth with geometric structure.

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