The Broadway Mall Association, in partnership with NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program and Lisson Gallery, with assistance from the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District, is proud to present Sean Scully: Broadway Shuffle, one of the most exciting public-art developments in recent memory. Scully is one of the most celebrated artists of our time, and the exhibition brings together a dazzling sequence of seven large-scale sculptures, each one a unique vertical stack composed from various configurations of metal, stone and wood. They are presented at seven locations along the green medians at the center of Broadway from Lincoln Square to Washington Heights. Scully, who for five decades has been celebrated for his stripe-based abstract paintings, has also won acclaim for his extensive body of drawings, prints and pastels. His Broadway Shuffle is the first exhibition in the United States to focus exclusively on his sculpture, a practice that has engaged him for more than twenty years.

About the artist, briefly: Scully, an American artist, was born in Dublin in 1945 and raised in south London. He came to the United States in 1972, when he was awarded the Frank Knox Fellowship at Harvard University. In 1975, he moved to New York, and he became a citizen in 1983. He has been honored with significant one-man exhibitions at more than fifty museums globally, including, in the United States, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. Outside of the U.S., his exhibitions have been organized by, among others, the National Gallery in London, the Albertina in Vienna, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. He was the first Western artist to have a full retrospective that toured several museums in China. Scully’s work is in the permanent collection of virtually every major museum here and abroad.

The Broadway Mall Association is partnering with the Program in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University to create an art curriculum focused on Scully’s work and the Broadway Shuffle exhibition to provide to local K-12 schools. This educational tool will invite learners to experience the sculptures of Sean Scully and the New York City spaces around them, inspire the imagination, and encourage children and teens to consider life in a city that connects people, art and nature.