{"title":"Bridget Riley","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of books about Bridget Riley and her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExhibition poster is exclusive to the Turner Contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bridget-riley-past-into-present","title":"Bridget Riley: Past into Present","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I am sometimes asked ‘What is your objective’ and this I cannot truthfully answer. I work ‘from’ something rather than ‘towards’ something. It is a process of discovery.” Since 1961, Riley has focused exclusively on seemingly simple geometric forms, such as lines, circles, curves, and squares, arrayed across a surface―whether a canvas, wall, or paper―according to an internal logic. The resulting compositions actively engage the viewer, at times triggering sensations of vibration and movement. In the present selection, Riley advances her Measure by Measure series, her most extensive body of work to date, into a new, darker color palette. Once again, changing the way we look and offering a powerful effect on our eyes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis sense of dynamism was explored to great effect in the artist’s earliest black-and-white paintings, which established the basis of her enduring formal vocabulary. In 2020, after visiting her own earlier works at her retrospective exhibition organized by the National Galleries of Scotland, Riley returned to black-and-white lozenges, adjusting the orientation of each shape to create a new visual sensation. In 1967, Riley introduced colour into her work, thus expanding the perceptual and optical possibilities of her compositions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished on the occasion of the 2021 exhibition at David Zwirner, London, this monograph features new scholarship on the artist by art historian Éric de Chassey, who looks at how Riley’s past, as well as previous artists, has led to this body of work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-sm md:text-sm text-black-60\"\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-sm md:text-sm text-black-60\"\u003eDimensions: 9.5 × 12 in | 24.4 × 30.5 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-sm md:text-sm text-black-60\"\u003ePages: 96\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-sm md:text-sm text-black-60\"\u003eReproductions: 66 illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55689511371138,"sku":"9781644230664","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0079\/6839\/1279\/files\/BridgetRileyPastIntoPresentsquare.jpg?v=1777378510"},{"product_id":"bridget-riley-wall-works-1983-2023","title":"Bridget Riley - Wall Works 1983-2023","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver her incredibly longevous career-she first became famous at the start of the 1960s as a leading exponent of Op art-Bridget Riley has developed her paintings through the arrangement of simple forms: stripes, triangles, circles and ovals, rhomboids and curves. She explores the rules of perception with colours and rhythms, inspired by theories and painting practices from Egypt to post-Impressionism. Her art is nevertheless an utterly contemporary laboratory, starting from formal experiments and exactly defined hues. Beyond the window format of the canvas, since the late 1970s she has been creating wall paintings, engendering a direct communication between work, viewer, and space. In an exceptional show at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, thirteen of these wall paintings across forty years were brought together: dot paintings, stripe paintings, and complex shapes whose inner logic resists a quick glance. The exhibition is documented in work illustrations and installation views that give a sense of the polyrhythms across the walls. An essay by Eric de Chassey discusses this central genre in Riley 's work, Michael Bracewell visits the artist for a look at her recent work, and Robert Kudielka provides the biographical context. Two historical interviews and a reflection by Riley herself round out the book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHb, 140 pages, 24 x 30cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Data","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55762394775938,"sku":"9783947127450","price":44.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0079\/6839\/1279\/files\/BridgetRileyWallWorkssquare.jpg?v=1777377454"},{"product_id":"bridget-riley-poster","title":"Bridget Riley Silvered Painting 2, poster","description":"\u003cp\u003e50 x 70 cm 250gsm smooth paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnframed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaximum order quantity 10 per order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e£6.25 shipping fee per poster ordered. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King \u0026 McGaw","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55934298587522,"sku":"5021043699148","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0079\/6839\/1279\/files\/BR_retail-poster_Morning-logo_2.jpg?v=1772621165"},{"product_id":"bridget-riley-from-life-national-portrait-gallery-london-15-may-5-december-2010","title":"Bridget Riley: From Life (National Portrait Gallery, London 15 May–5 December 2010)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBridget Riley: From Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eBridget Riley and Paul Moorhouse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith previously unseen work, Bridget Riley: From Life presents a dramatic new account of the role of life drawing in the artist's career. Best known for her large scale abstract works, Riley writes candidly about how the disciplines of observation and drawing were instilled in her at art school, and paved the way for her professional career. Focusing on her early drawings from life, the book includes portraits of models and the artist's family and friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘It was figure drawing in the life class that paved the way. There I looked for structure, the distribution of weight, the proportions of the body, the light and tonal scale and ... the first impression of the whole. ... These ways of thought and ordering of work built up patterns of practice which extended far beyond my student days.' \u003c\/em\u003eBridget Riley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBridget Riley (b.1931) is widely celebrated for her compelling abstract paintings which engage with colour, line, space and implied movement. This new book focuses on an important aspect of her art that has not been previously explored. Bridget Riley: From Life illuminates the roots of her mature work, emphasising the role of drawing and the importance she has always placed on observation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in London, Riley studied at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art. The leading exponent of ‘Op Art' in Britain, she worked initially in black and white, only introducing colour in 1966. Solo exhibitions in 1962 and 1963 secured an international reputation for her meticulous paintings with dazzling 3-D effects. She won the International Prize for Painting at the 1968 Venice Biennale, was made a CBE in 1974, and awarded the Companion of Honour in 1999. 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