New Exhibit Showcasing Irish American Artist Sean Scully Opens Monday At Philadelphia Museum Of Art
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- There is a new exhibit coming to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Eyewitness News got a sneak peek on Friday of "Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas."
It's a survey of the work of the Irish American artist.
Scully is described as a key figure in contemporary abstract painting and has been creating pieces for more than five decades.
"This retrospective tells a story and it shows a typed geometry that moves gradually through decades to a more expressive, emotional, looser kind of painting," Scully said.
"For those who don't know Sean Scully's work, I am confident this will come as a revelation to them," Timothy Rub, director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, said. "He's one of the great figures, in my view, in the history of contemporary painting."
The exhibit opens to the public on Monday and runs through early July.