‘Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk' Review: Abstractions of Light and Landscape
In the summer of 1982, Sean Scully spent a month at the Edward Albee Foundation's Barn in Montauk, N.Y. The then 37-year-old artist, born in Dublin and raised in London, had been living in New York since arriving on a Harkness Fellowship in 1975, and was beginning to announce his presence. A confirmed urbanite, used to outdoor space defined by buildings and pavement, Mr. Scully has said in interviews that experiencing Montauk's open expanse of sea, sky and beach on this first extended sojourn in nature was transformative. During the Albee residency, Mr. Scully produced 22 small, intensely physical paintings on found pieces of wood. Named for islands, they depend on the collisions of differently proportioned, differently colored stripes on discrete shapes—as he has taught us to expect of him—here in miniature.
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