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Bridget Riley: Works from 1981-2015
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About The Book
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.
Product Details
- Publisher: David Zwirner Books (July 26, 2016)
- Length: 96 pages
- ISBN13: 9781941701232
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Bridget Riley: Works 1981–2015 celebrates “[Riley’s] enduring genius… Whether it’s her early canvases or current pieces, throughout Riley’s long career her work has consistently challenged the viewer’s perspective.”
– Catriona Gray, Harper’s Bazaar
“Riley's paintings seem to defy scholarly interpretation. Her central interest is visual sensation: through geometric repetition, tonal inversion, compression, and expansion, she's able to exploit what she calls ‘visual energy’ to produce striking optical phenomena.”
– Jake Malooley, Reader
“Bridget Riley’s work is utterly fascinating…”
– Maisie Skidmore, It’s Nice That
“Bridget Riley is the most important British painter of the modern age. Bacon? Freud? Hockney? None of those famous men took hold of the language of painting and remade it as she has.”
– Jonathan Jones, The Guardian
“Each painting is incredibly carefully planned, and deeply theoretically rigorous.”
– Samuel Spencer, The Culture Trip
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