Bridget Riley

Bridget Riley is a British painter, and one of the forerunners of the Op-Art movement.

"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place,'" Bridget Riley summarized with characteristic incisive clarity. "Then, little by little, and, to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space, as it were, so that there was a layered, shallow depth. It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly."

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Light Between, 1981-2004

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Untitled (Winged Curve), 1966

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Turquoise, Cerise, Ochre: Closed Discs with Black, 1970

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Encircling Discs with Grey in Grey to Black Sequence, 1970

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Untitled (Rothko Portfolio), 1973

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Displaced Parallels, 1962

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Twisted Curve, Horizontal Colour Movement,1977

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Untitled (Diagonal curve), 1966

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Blaze 1, 1962

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Fall, 1963

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Descending, 1965

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Cataract 3, 1967

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It would probably be unconstitutional to not include Bridget Riley in an art + visual perception exhibition. You could talk a long time about all of the perceptual illusions her work activates. Most famously illusory motion, but many many others. While almost all of her work throughout her career has employed optical illusions, or are aesthetically inspired by them, most of her work that will be most relevant to my exhibition is from the early 60s through mid-70s.
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I need to research if there have been any fMRI scans done of people looking at her work...
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