Artist | Bridget Riley (*1931)
Alias: Bridget Riley [Bridget Louise Riley]
https://www.artist-info.com/artist/Bridget-Riley
Exhibition at Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Exhibition at Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Bridget Riley Silkscreen prints 1962 - 2001
13 April - 8 June 2002 at Abbot Hall Art Gallery , Kendal - Cumbria
Following the success of the Bridget Riley exhibition held at Abbot Hall Art Gallery in 1999, there will be a new opportunity to see the screenprints of this leading British artist. The exhibition, which comes to Abbot Hall before touring extensively in Britain, presents a definative survey of Riley's printmaking and includes approximately 40 silkscreen
prints selected by the artist from all periods of her work. The exhibition also coincides with the publication of a new and comprehensive
catalogue raisonné of her printmaking with essays by Lynn MacRitchie and Craig Hartley, which will be available for the first time at Abbot Hall.
Bridget Riley gained recognition in the 1960s as the leading figure of the Op Art movement. She first achieved fame in the mid-sixties with black and white abstractions whose dazzling optical effects caused a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. She slowly moved towards colour through a group of delicate grey paintings. Colour, increasingly bold and sensuous, became her overriding theme in the seventies in paintings where rhythms were created by the repetition of simple forms, wavy lines, stripes and lozenge motifs.
Throughout her career Bridget Riley has made screenprints. She has
been most active as a printmaker during periods when interest in her work was greatest, notably during the 1960s and the late 1990s,
producing more than sixty silkscreen prints over the last four decades. In her prints, Bridget Riley has always employed challenging new techniques particular to the screenprint medium and in the 1960s she experimented with printing on plexiglas, a new form of transparent plastic which symbolised the excitement and innovation of the decade and had never been used in this way before.
This National Touring Exhibition is organised by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts Council of England.
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Exhibition History
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Exhibitions in artist-info | 157 (S 54/ G 103) |
Did show together with - Top 5 of 2426 artists (no. of shows) - all shows - Top 100
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Exhibitions by type | 157: 61 / 54 / 39 / 3 | |||||||||||
Venues by type | 116: 42 / 35 / 36 / 3 | |||||||||||
Curators | 65 | |||||||||||
artist-info records | Apr 1962 - Aug 2022 | |||||||||||
Countries - Top 5 of 14 Germany (56) United Kingdom (37) United States (18) Switzerland (11) France (7) |
Cities - Top 5 of 63 London (26) Berlin (22) New York (15) Bochum (6) Zürich (5) |
Venues (no. of shows )
Top 5 of 116
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Curators (no. of shows)
Top 5 of 65
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Zentrum Paul Klee | S | Jun 2022 - Aug 2022 | Bern | (14) | +0 | |
National Gallery of Scotland | S | Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 | Edinburgh | (7) | +0 | |
PalaisPopulaire | G | Sep 2018 - Jan 2019 | Berlin | (2) | +0 | |
Hütte, Friedhelm (Curator) | +0 | |||||
Centre Pompidou - Metz | G | Feb 2018 - Jul 2019 | Metz | (27) | +0 | |
Lavigne, Emma (Curator) | +0 | |||||
Daimler Contemporary Berlin | G | Jun 2017 - Nov 2017 | Berlin | (14) | +0 | |
Wiehager, Renate (Curator) | +0 | |||||
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art | S | Apr 2017 - Apr 2017 | Edinburgh | (26) | +0 | |
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