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Article: Sean Scully at Mary Boone and Lelong.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
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Sean Scully moved to New York in 1975, the high point of Minimalism. His two recent exhibitions--oil paintings and etchings at Mary Boone, photographs and paintings/sculptures at Galerie Lelong--show him continuing to engage in a profoundly sensual, painterly dialogue with Minimalism's esthete of virtuous restraint. His endless and by-now classic variations on simple stripe and bar motifs transform a spartan vocabulary into a remarkably rich and complex style.
The show at Boone consisted of four large paintings in the main gallery and two small paintings and a suite of five etchings in the smaller space. Scully's repetitions of lines and bars, interrupted by ...