Santa Barbara 34 (aus: The Santa Barbara Series). 1987.
Monotype.
Signed, dated and titled "Santa Barbara 34". Unique object. For "The Santa Barbara Series" the artist made 39 monotypes (each numbered). On firm wove paper. 83.7 x 111 cm (32.9 x 43.7 in). Sheet: 108 x 139 cm (42,5 x 54,7 in).
Printed by the artist at Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara, California. [CH].
• In this series of works, Scully deals with the printing technique of the monotype for the first time in 1987 and begins his passionate examination of prints that has lasted to this day.
• More of the 39 monotypes from "The Santa Barbara Series" can be found e.g. at the Tate Gallery in London, at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
• In the combination of straight lines, soft edges, warm-toned, rectangular color fields and checkerboard patterns, as well as a slight asymmetry, Scully creates an fascinating work of great appeal.

"[The prints] have an independent life. And I want to make an independent body of work. There are things you can do with prints that you cannot do with any other medium. [..] It involves a process that's been around for a very, very long time, hundreds of years and there is something about that I like."
Sean Scully in an interview with Julia Klüser, 1998, quoted from: Konrad Oberhuber, Tonneau-Ryckelynck u. Sabine Fehlemann, Sean Scully. Prints (Catalogue Raisonné 1968-1999), Vienna/Wuppertal 1999, p. 143.

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