Marking op art’s takeover from the passé machismo of abstract expressionism, Riley’s pulsing exercises in perception opened a new way of seeing that activated the spectator ...
This exhibition of work by the octogenarian painter shows everything from her earliest work to her most recent explorations
Hayward Gallery, London 23 October 2019 – 26 Januar...
Through the works of Georges Seurat, Bridget Riley learned about colour. His The Bridge at Courbevoie provided ‘a true masterclass … the best tutorial I ever had’ and he ha...
Bridget Riley
Tate Britain, 26 June-28 September 2003
Tate Britain's important exhibition of Bridget Riley’s painting ends later this month. This is a full retrospective, which...
... or transition between artists of a previous generation who were straightforwardly abstract, such as Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres and John Hoyland and painters such as Pete...
... Annabelle Selldorf and launched with Zwirner’s Big Bang stable of 80 renowned artists – among them Paul Klee, Ad Reinhardt, Yayoi Kusama, Marlene Dumas, Dan Flavin, Al...
... exemplary of what I think of as poetic engineering.
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While Lijn is a figure as important to postwar interdisciplinary art practices as Barbara Hepworth was to...
... is like accessing a diary, a glimpse into the real time of creation, as if the artist were present. (The Morgan’s Bridget Riley show, just across the hall, also depends ...
... the world around him, as well as in his world. We see that he was a founding member of CND (something I had not known). We see him supporting younger artists, among them B...
... of the most flamboyant dealers around and his gallery openings were famous. He showed works by Ed Ruscha, Bridget Riley, Robert Rauschenberg, Jann Haworth and Jim Dine. He...
... and complex patterns.
There are subsections devoted to explorations of the line (Arpita Singh, Judit Reigl, Agnes Martin) and also to the op-art pioneers (including Brid...
... artistic life.
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Aspects of Hepworth’s legacy appear in this exhibition, too. A small number of paintings by Bridget Riley are shown alongside Hepworth’s s...
... major donation includes works by Alexander Calder, Prunella Clough, Sonia Delaunay, Naum Gabo, David Hockney, Paul Nash, Gerhard Richter and Bridget Riley. Most recently, ...
... arrangement calls to mind the masterfulpointillism experiments of Georges Seurat or of his admirer, Bridget Riley. Like a picnic viewed through thick summer leaves, this q...
... as one of Britain’s most important abstract painters. Yet despite being a contemporary of Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Bridget Riley, Whishaw remains a peripheral fi...
... [my paintings] are intensely abstract in content, which is why I like abstract painting, too. I love it. Gillian Ayres, the abstract expressionists and so on, Bridget Rile...
... a Robert Motherwell, a Marc Chagall, a Franz Kline, a Bridget Riley and a Sean Scully all sold on opening day. There were, nonetheless, fallouts; the stunning orange/yello...
... Goldsmiths’ famous former students: £1.4m raised at Christie’s from an auction of works by alumni including Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Antony Gormle...
... Yeah. I think when you look at anyone like Albers or Bridget Riley, you can see they’re having fun. It seems so planned and controlled, but there’s such a sense of giv...
... world, but photography seems to have followed suit, rather than taken the lead. Parallels are drawn with Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian and Bridget Rile...