Bridget Riley
dal 22/9/2004 al 23/10/2004
Segnalato da
22/9/2004
Bridget Riley
Pace Wildenstein, New York
The exhibition features nine large-scale oil on linen curve paintings completed between 2000-2004. A full color catalogue with an essay by Dr. Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas at Austin, accompanies the show.
Recent Paintings
The artist will be present at an opening on Thursday, September 23rd from 6-8 p.m.
The exhibition features nine large-scale oil on linen curve paintings completed between 2000-2004. A full color catalogue with an essay by Dr. Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas at Austin, accompanies the show.
Exploring the artist's work and approach Dr. Shiff writes "Bridget Riley is perceptive: observant, sensitive, discerning. She concerns herself with what goes 'unrecognized' - or, as she also identifies it, 'the im-perceptible.'"
This Spring Riley's first complete print retrospective organized by the British Council opened in Tallinn, Estonia and is scheduled to travel to Lithuania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, and Slovenia through 2005. The exhibition, originally organized as a National Touring Exhibition by the Hayward Gallery, London, in 2000 toured the United Kingdom through 2003. Later this Fall, a survey of over fifty of Riley's paintings, also organized by the British Council, is scheduled to open at the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg and travel through Switzerland and Australia in 2005.
Bridget Riley first received acclaim for her work in the early 1960's soon after her first solo show in 1962 and has since been the subject of over eighty solo exhibitions internationally and four retrospectives. Riley's first exhibition at PaceWildenstein was held in 2000 in conjunction with Reconnaissance, an exhibition of early work at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York (2000-2001).
Bridget Riley's most recent retrospective, Bridget Riley, was organized by the Tate Britain in 2003 and traveled to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid and Kunsthalle, Zurich. In 1992, Bridget Riley, Paintings 1982-1992, originated at Kunsthalle, Nuremberg and traveled to Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat Bottrop; Hayward Gallery, London; and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. The artist's second retrospective, organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain, opened at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, in 1978. The exhibition of nearly 100 paintings completed during the years 1959-1978 traveled to the Dallas Museum of Fine Art; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. In 1970, the Arts Council of Great Britain organized Bridget Riley's first retrospective, Bridget Riley: Paintings and Drawings 1951-71, which opened at Kunstverein Hannover, and traveled to Kunsthalle Berne; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Galleria civica d'arte Moderna, Turin; Hayward Gallery, London; and the National Gallery, Prague. The exhibition included both her signature black and white paintings as well as new works in color.
Bridget Riley (b. 1931, London) studied at Goldsmith's College in London and received a B.A. from the Royal College of Art in 1955. In 1969, Riley was the first woman ever to win the International Prize for Painting at the 34th Venice Biennale. She received Honorary Doctorates from University of Exeter (1997), De Montfort University (1996), Cambridge University (1995), Oxford University (1994), University of Ulster (1986), and University of Manchester (1976). Riley was also appointed the Companion of Honour in 1999, and in 2003, she received the Praemium Imperiale, the International Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, from the Japan Arts Association.
Bridget Riley's work can be found in numerous public collections worldwide, including: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Dia Center for the Arts, New York; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri; the Stedelijk Museum; Amsterdam; the Tate Gallery, London; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Catalogue:
Bridget Riley, RECENT PAINTINGS 2004, $20.00
Essay by Richard Shiff
1930743378
Image:Bridget Riley, Turquoise and Others, 2004, oil on linen. 3' 10" x 9' (116.8 cm x 274.3 cm)
Pace Wildenstein
32 East 57th Street, New York