The London Sims Reed Gallery presents a retrospective of prints by Bridget Riley, a famous britannic Postwar painter.
The exhibition tries to offer an overview of the artist carrer, with a focus on specific moments represented by groups of works and a certain style.
Beginning with black and white prints from the 1960s such as Untitled (Based on Primitive Blaze)(1962) and Untitled (Based on Blaze)(1964), the artist will later switch to treys and then to color, as we can see in her works RA 2 (1981) and Silvered 2 (1981). These both prints use exactly the same elements, identically coloured stripes and the same number of each, but the stripes are combined in different sequences, creating completely opposite effects from identical structural qualities of colour.
In this exhibition, each group of works illustrates how a single unit – be it a set of colours or a specific form – can be subtly manipulated to create surprisingly different effects.
When: until March, 20th.
Where: Sims Reed Gallery – 30 Bury St – London