Author: Bridget Riley
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
ISBN: 1941701914
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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The quest for discovery through looking is the driving force of Bridget Riley’s work, as she has written: “More than anything else I want my paintings to exist on their own terms. That is to say they must stealthily engage and disarm you. There the paintings hang, deceptively simple—telling no tales as it were—resisting, in a well-behaved way, all attempts to be questioned, probed or stared at and then, for those with open eyes, serenely disclosing some intimations of the splendors to which pure sight alone has the key.” This publication unfolds along the lines of Riley’s 2018 exhibition at David Zwirner, London. Beginning with an exploration of black-and-white equilateral triangles, Riley leads the viewer into an awareness of the ways in which a surface—wall or canvas—can affect a seemingly simple form: the triangle. While she demonstrates these subtle changes, Riley manipulates this form by bending its sides. At first sight the viewer may experience this as a breaking apart, but as one continues to look, serpentine movements appear, or large shadowy triangles, which advance and recede. These paintings constantly reinvent themselves through looking. Riley is revisiting and developing works which she initiated over fifty years ago, as is shown here by the inclusion of Black to White Discs (1962/1965) in the exhibition. This diamond formation of discs, which graduates in tone from white to black and back again, offers a lead-in to her new body of work. In Cosmos and the Measure for Measure series, Riley recalls a group of subtly shaded colors used this time in discs. While the compositions remain fundamentally the same, the play of colors changes every time. The exhibition ends with a surprisingly spacious wall painting that offers the viewer many delights, not least among them a dance of fugitive white lights. Here, Riley disarms the viewer, encouraging us once again in an adventure of discovery. In his essay, Richard Shiff explores Riley’s ability to give new life to basic forms as she invites the audience, any audience, to help participate in the painting.
Author: Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692306383
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction explores Bridget Riley's longstanding relationship with the United States, beginning in 1965 with the inclusion of her works in the pivotal exhibition, The Responsive Eye, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Accompanying the exhibition catalogue are essays by Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani and Rachel Stratton, along with an original reflection by the artist.
Author: Bridget Riley
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
ISBN: 194170123X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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Bridget Riley’s explorations of perception through form and color have made her into one of the most significant painters working today. Since the early 1960s, she has used elementary shapes—lines, circles, curves, and squares—to create visual experiences that immediately draw the viewer in, often triggering optical vibrations and illusions. More recently, Riley has shifted back to black and white in her large-scale paintings, marking a departure from her recent colored stripe paintings and a return to the palette of some of her earliest works. Published on the occasion of her 2015 solo exhibition at David Zwirner, Bridget Riley: Works 1981–2015 presents paintings from the last thirty-four years of her career, including images of Rajasthan, a wall painting previously shown in Germany and England, and exhibited for the first time in New York. These dynamic reproductions begin with stripe paintings from the 1980s and end with a coda of sorts —a return to black and white that ties back to her work from the 1960s, but bear traces of Riley’s deep engagement with color in the interim. As critic Éric de Chassey puts it in his essay for Riley’s 2015 catalogue with Galerie Max Hetzler: “The black-and-white paintings not only enter into a dialogue with the 1960s works, but take stock of every painting experience Riley has created during a long career.” Also included is a selection of the artist’s works on paper; taken together, these complementary aspects of her practice over the past four decades reveal the astonishing variety she has achieved by developing and rediscovering different forms. An essay by art historian Richard Shiff helps contextualize the developments in Riley’s practice since the early 1980s, and further emphasizes her influence and lineage as a painter. Rounding out the publication are biographical notes by Robert Kudielka, one of the artist’s foremost critics. With a career spanning six decades, Bridget Riley remains one of the most exciting painters today, and Bridget Riley: Works 1981–2015 presents a selection of works from what may be her richest period to date.
Author: Bridget Riley
Publisher: Kunsthalle Nurnberg
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Bridget Riley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783947127061
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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For her 2017 exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler in Paris, Bridget Riley (born 1931) installed eight canvases and two wall works--all part of her Disc Paintings series (2016-2017), in which colored discs are arranged in a diagonal grid, their palette--off-green, off-violet and off-orange--inspired by Seurat.
Author: Eric de Chassey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911054320
Category : Optical art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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* Includes a selection of critical writings starting with David Sylvester's review of her first exhibition in 1962 and ending with Dave Hickey's foreword to her 2019 exhibition in LA* Featuring reviews, essays, statements and conversations that have been specially selected by the artist and include her own writings* This book marks the first major survey of Riley's work to be staged in Scotland and the first of its scale in the UK since 2003* Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland from June until September 2019, and at the Hayward, London, October to January 2020This landmark book reflects on almost 70 years of works by Bridget Riley (b.1931), from some of her earliest to very recent projects, providing a unique record of the work of an artist still very much at the height of her powers. Essays from leading scholars and commentators on Riley's work will make this title the authority on Riley's practice. In the last decade, Riley has continued to push her practice considerably, producing several large-scale site-specific wall paintings as well as continuing to develop new paintings. This book will explore these recent developments. It will also examine the notable influence that other artists such as Georges Seurat and Piet Mondrian have had on Riley's work. Published to accompany an exhibition taking place in the National Galleries of Scotland, running from June - September 2019.
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ISBN: 9781909932265
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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In this compact survey of Bridget Rileys career, the dialogue between monochrome and color in the British artists work is explored over a span of 50 years through 2015 in essay and image. Accompanying the 201617 show at the Scottish National Gallery, the hardcover publication sports an Op Art cover and includes 30 illustrations of the artists work and essays by art historians .ric de Chassey and Frances Spalding, as well as a historic interview by art critic Robert Kudielka. Together they contextualize Rileys early developments and demonstrate how her latest paintings progress directly out of a rigorous engagement with color. Riley gained critical attention internationally for her black-and-white paintings during the mid-1960s, using elementary shapes to engage the eye by creating flux and rhythm within the pictorial field. Throughout the succeeding decades, Riley has continued her investigation into perception be it through rich colors or simple black and white.
Author: Bridget Riley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500976272
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Bridget Riley has pursued a course of rigorous abstraction for some 40 years, from her celebrated black and white Op Art works in the 1960s to the complex colour paintings of the 1990s. This volume contains an illuminating series of dialogues between Riley and well-known figures from the art world.
Author: Paul Moorhouse
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ISBN: 9781909932500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Among the many pictorial devices Bridget Riley has deployed over
Author: Bridget Riley
Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Bridget Riley: Flashback is the first in a new series of monographic Hayward Touring exhibitions from the Arts Council Collection. Each exhibition will bring together outstanding early works by high profile British artists, and set them against major recent works borrowed from the artists themselves. This book tracks Bridget Riley's career from its sensational beginnings in the early 1960s to the ambitious and powerful paintings and works on paper of recent years. It includes an essay by Michael Bracewell and a new piece of writing by the artist discussing the genesis of a key early painting, Movement in Squares (1961). A chronology illustrated with archive photographs and an illustrated inventory of works by the artist in UK public collections complete this rich survey. Published to accompany the exhibition Bridget Riley: Flashback touring in 2009/10 to Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery; and Southampton City Art Gallery.
