Sean Scully

Sean Scully, born in Dublin in 1945, has developed one of the central positions of geometric abstraction in New York since the 1970s. His compositions, made up of stripes, bars and squares, combine formal rigor with high emotional intensity, which is evident in the dynamic style of the lush application of paint and the exposed, frayed edges.

Scully's painting lends the geometric form a physical and existential dimension. Color and structure become carriers of rhythm, tension and memory and open up the seemingly static order to a sensual spatial experience.

From February 26, Walter Storms Galerie will be showing Sean Scully's third solo exhibition at the gallery after he opened the gallery's new location in Schellingstraße in 2009. His work has been shown in numerous international retrospectives, including at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, the National Gallery, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and many more. Sean Scully lives in Hudson Vallery, New York, and has studios in London, Berlin and Mooseurach near Munich.