Tag: Richard Smith

Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio

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 and extended art’s boundaries
Richard Smith: Work of Five Decades

This is the first posthumous exhibition of Richard Smith, who died last year, and whose work straddled pop and abstract art
Sam Cornish: ‘We started with this idea that all works would have to contain repetition, sequence and symmetry’

The co-curator of Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art discusses how this relatively unsung period in art history was characterised by more than just bright colours and glossy surfaces
Venice Biennale: the British five

“… this year’s selection of Caro, the Cohens [Bernard Cohen, Harold Cohen], Denny, and Richard Smith seems suddenly to have aroused people’s interest [in the Venice Biennale]. Featured already in Vogue Magazine, (‘Merchants of Venice?’), trailed by B.B.C…”