Bridget Riley

7 Sep-11 Oct 2011

Overview

Bridget Riley is one of the UK’s leading post war artists. Her vibrant black-and-white, optical art paintings featuring geometric patterns achieved international acclaim, following a celebrated exhibition – ‘The Responsive Eye’ – held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1965. By 1967, she began investigating colour, and painted her first stripe painting. Although Riley’s work is abstract, it is deeply rooted in nature: for example, the effects of light and colour in the landscape.