Material Oil on copper
Dimensions 70 x 70 x 3.8 cm
Status Not Vetted

About the Work

Spanning over three decades, the Wall of Light series began after Scully made the first of several influential trips to Mexico in 1983, where he used watercolor for the first time to portray the patterns of light and shadows he experienced on the stacked stones of local walls and ruins. His commitment to pure abstraction as well as his capacity to capture light is very much visible in this signature series.


Wall Tappan Deep Red recalls not only the warm, vivid colors of Tappan but also captures the essence of his earliest photographs and striped works, presenting complex woven passages of paint referencing and remixing some of Scully's previous compositions, with vertical inflections and doubled ‘bricks’ disturbing the otherwise neat symmetry of each square. “I’m trying to turn stone into light,” the artist has said of the manner in which these building blocks add up to something positive or “clear in its aspiration: to make a wall that is not a brutal divider.”

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