Sean Scully with David Carrier

David Carrier | The Brooklyn Rail | 5th March 2018

A critic once described Scully’s stripe paintings as having “grandeur”.  In interview he does come across as focused on grand themes. Past inspiration – “discord, the way people and ideas compete for survival.” Present inspiration – “to rescue abstraction from remoteness” The art world – “[it] has changed dramatically … Paris, London, and New York no longer call the shots as they did”.