Exhibition
Bridget Riley | Late Curve Prints
3 Mar 2023 – 6 Apr 2023
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 16 North Parade Avenue
- Oxford
England - OX2 6LX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Oxford City Centre/ Park Town
- Oxford
Meakin + Parsons x Hannah Payne presents a new exhibition of a group of prints by Bridget Riley covering a period collectively known as the late curve prints that date from 1998-2013.
About
Meakin + Parsons x Hannah Payne, Oxford, presents a new exhibition of a group of prints by Bridget Riley covering a period collectively known as the late curve prints that date from 1998-2013.
The curve works started in the late 1960’s, after her move from the black and white works that had dominated the early 1960’s period, and continued alongside other forms until the early 1980’s. As is a constituent part of her studio practice, Riley returned to the curve form in the late 1990’s but unlike the early twisting curves these later curves have an underlying vertical structure that link directly to the zig works of the 1990’sand in particular the stripe works of the 1980’s
Meakin + Parsons x Hannah Payne 16 North Parade Avenue, OX2 6LX
Bridget Riley on her use of the curve says: “…one cannot tackle the instability and infinite variety of colour relationships without relying on some sort of formal backbone…when I started to use the curve again, this time as a rhythmic vehicle for colour. This was different from the earlier paintings like Cataract. By using twisted curves I could bunch up colour sensations in a way that went further than the lateral groupings… When colours are twisted along the rise and fall of a curve their juxtapositions change continually. There are innumerable sequences, each of which throws up a different sensation. From these I build up clusters which then flow one into another almost imperceptibly…my formal scaffolding is buried to such an extent that it becomes subservient to the ‘action’ of the colour”
(Robert Kudielka on Bridget Riley: Essays and interviews since 1972, Riding House, London, 2014).
Bridget Riley was born in South London 24 April 1931. She studied at Goldsmiths College from 1949 to 1952, and at the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955, before going on to teach and work in an advertising agency until 1963. Her first solo exhibition was held at Gallery One in London 1962.
In 1965, Riley exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in a group show, The Responsive Eye. The exhibition drew worldwide attention to the 'Op Art' movement, and Riley's work which consisted of black and white geometric patterns. Riley's printmaking over the last 50 years has run parallel to the developments in her painting. Riley worked exclusively in black and white until the late 1960s when she shifted her palette to grey and then to colour. Since then, Riley has employed a rich array of colour in several series of influential bodies of work.
Recent solo exhibitions include National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh and Hayward Gallery, London (2019); The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Japan (2018); Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand (2017); Graves Gallery, Museum Sheffield (2016); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, toured to Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (2015) and National Gallery, London (2010).
She represented Great Britain in the Venice Biennale in 1968 where she was the first British contemporary painter, and the first woman, to be awarded the International Prize for painting. In 1974, Riley was named a CBE and in 1999, appointed the Companion of Honour. In 2003, the artist was awarded the Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo.
Rileys works are held in numerous collections around the world including, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Kunstmuseum, Bern; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; National Gallery of Modern Art, Tokyo; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon; Arts Council Collection, London; Tate, London; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut.
Bridget Riley lives and works in London, Cornwall and France.