Exhibition
Bridget Riley : Painting Now
16 Nov 2018 – 26 Jan 2019
Sprüth Magers | Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Free
MICHAEL BRACEWELL is a writer based in London. He has written widely on the art of Bridget Riley, for publications including ‘Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work’, National Gallery, London (2010). He is the co-organiser of ‘Bridget Riley: Painting Now’ at Spruth-Magers, Los Angeles, (2018) and has contributed to the exhibition catalogue.
SUZANNE HUDSON is an art historian and critic based in Los Angeles, where she is Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. Recent books include 'Painting Now' (Thames & Hudson, 2015) and 'Agnes Martin: Night Sea' (Afterall/MIT Press, 2017). 'Mary Weatherford' is forthcoming in late 2018.
LYNNE COOKE is Senior Curator, Special Projects in Modern Art, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. In 2000, while a curator at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York, she organized ‘Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance’, which at the time was the first solo exhibition devoted to Riley’s work to originate in the US in decades.
Co-presented by Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
A special viewing of the exhibition 'Bridget Riley: Painting Now’ will take place across the street from LACMA at Sprüth Magers (5900 Wilshire Blvd) from 6 to 7 pm, so that visitors may see Riley's work in person before attending the panel.
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