 – Opening this Saturday at the Parrish Art Museum, “Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk” is a survey of the artist’s work ranging from 1981 to 2024,…){kind=link}
© Sean Scully. Courtesy of the Artist.
WATER MILL, NY (PNAN) – Opening this Saturday at the Parrish Art Museum, “Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk” is a survey of the artist’s work ranging from 1981 to 2024, exploring his Long Island connection and how a single month spent in Montauk in the summer of 1982 with a fellowship at The Edward F. Albee Foundation became a pivotal place and moment in the artist’s career.
This exhibition brings together 15 of the original 1982 Montauk paintings for the first time, presented near the very site of their inspiration. In total, “Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk” features over 70 works, chosen in collaboration with the artist to emphasize their connection to landscape and light.
Key paintings include “Backs and Fronts” (1981), “Heart of Darkness” (1982), selections from the “Wall of Light” series last shown in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006, the “Landline” series previously exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2018 and the Wadsworth Atheneum in 2019, as well as the newly debuted “Wall Landlines” and “Tower” paintings—a monumental series started in 2024.
“I’d already made the change in my work, in my breaking from Minimalism, by including metaphor, subjective colors, difficult relationships, abutment, and different titles; however, the time I spent in Montauk brought me closer to nature and enriched the relationship between my abstract paintings and the natural world,” said nostalgically artist Scully about his time at the Albee Residency.
For more on this Irish-born American artist, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Scully and on this exhibit see: www.parrishart.org