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Bridget Riley
Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her op art paintings. Op artworks are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or swelling or warping. Bridget Riley was a pioneer in the movement. Riley’s works present a great variety of geometric forms that produce sensations of movement or colour. In the early 1960s, her works were said to induce a variety of sensations in viewers, from seasickness to the feeling of sky diving.
Riley was born at Norwood, London, the daughter of a businessman. Her childhood was spent in Cornwall and Lincolnshire. Riley studied at Goldsmiths’ College and the Royal College of Art and worked briefly in advertising before transitioning to full-time artmaking. She has exhibited in London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, among many other cities. Her work belongs in the collections of institutions including Arts Council England, the Centre Pompidou, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate, and the Stedelijk Museum and has fetched millions of dollars on the secondary market.
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Riley began making this distinctive series, entitled Lozenges in 1997. Since the 1960s, Riley has worked in series, focusing on a particular formal theme for several years. The curvilinear paintings of the late 1990s and early twenty-first century employ overlapping curved segments, typically in combinations of no more than six colours.
The movement within echoes the cadences of waves rolling on the shore, whilst the shape of the forms is reminiscent of a leaf or petal. Indeed, throughout her artistic career, Riley has continually been inspired by the natural world and its abundance. Although the shapes in From One To The Other are non-representational, like all of Riley’s works, they hint at the shapes and rhythms found in the natural world.