When op art attained a faddish popularity in the mid-1960s, its leading figure was Bridget Riley (b. 1931). The British painter’s early canvases, featuring fields of dynamic black-and-white ...

Art critics who had enthused about Abstract Expressionism found Op too cold and clinical; other viewers saw the movement as a sort of groovy application of science. Riley and her 1964 painting ...

About the Artist: English artist Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is widely recognized for her colorful, geometric pattern paintings, and as a pioneering force in the 1960s Op art movement. A graduate of ...

A central figure in the Op Art movement in the 1960s and ’70s, Bridget Riley is known for pictures that can provoke uncanny feelings in anyone who stares at them long enough.

Art Review ‘Bridget Riley / Pierre-Auguste Renoir’ and ‘Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction’ Review: Eye-Boggling Op Art A pair of shows, one intimate and one expansive, look at the ...

Right now, through September 22, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh is presenting Bridget Riley, a retrospective featuring signature examples of the artist’s Op Art ...

A London hospital recently got a candy-colored makeover from Bridget Riley, the English painter at the forefront of the Op art movement. A colorful abstract mural–Riley’s first in 27 years ...

Less than three years after her first solo show, Bridget Riley would be featured in a landmark exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, with her work appearing on the cover of the catalog.

21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.2 cm.) Very rare early Bridget Riley poster from Richard Feigen in New York. This exhibition was in the same year - 1965 - that Riley catapulted to international stardom, when ...

Riley, 91, is a British artist who is widely recognized as a leading force in the op art movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Op art is a technique that uses color, line and shape to create the ...

A London hospital recently got a candy-colored makeover from Bridget Riley, the English painter at the forefront of the Op art movement. A colorful abstract mural–Riley’s first in 27 years ...