Sean Scully

Tower

November 7, 2025 – January 24, 2026

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447 Space is pleased to present Tower, an exhibition by Sean Scully featuring the eponymous new series of Tower paintings. These paintings “represents a radical departure and a bold dismantling of his practice, each being formed from a concatenation of smaller, individual panels, seemingly employing different styles and diverse moments from his own painterly back catalogue. Through the disorder and disjuncture of these tessellating panels, incorporating gaps, overlaps and holes, comes a newfound harmony and rhythm, that also references an earlier, spiritual era of art – such as the perspectival depth and world building found in Quattrocento Italy – as well as the rupture of modern art – in Analytic Cubism or Lucio Fontana’s pierced surfaces, for example.”

“Assembled from wood, felt and aluminum, the Tower works are inherently sculptural, featuring graffiti-esque spray paint, competing grids and flashes of road signs, which bring to mind the tumult of our high-rise, built environment. Through Scully’s complex amalgamation of cohesion and fracture, the Tower paintings carry an allegorical force, conveying echoes of ambitious structures like the World Trade Center and the Tower of Babel, and suggesting the gulf between demise and reconstruction.”

In parallel to the exhibition, three additional new works from the Tower series, as well as contrasting smaller paintings and sculptures are on view at Lisson Gallery, Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-6pm. Full details can be found here.