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Bridget Riley's paintings are developed carefully over time, the
result of methodically working through pictorial variables such as
colour, tone, scale, and rhythm. Studies are central to this
process, allowing Riley to concentrate on the analysis and
synthesis that lie at the heart of her working practice. Riley
says, 'Because my work is based on enquiry, studies are my chief
method of exploration and my way into paintings' (2005). This
volume richly illustrates the thinking that goes into Riley's work
through a selection of over 150 drawings, colour analyses,
notations, scale studies and cartoons, most of which were exhibited
at the artist's recent seminal retrospective exhibitions in
Edinburgh and London from 2019 to 2020 organized by the National
Galleries of Scotland. The selection spans most of Riley's working
life, tracing the origins and evolving nature of her remarkable
body of work. Riley's beginnings are also documented through
selected childhood drawings, work made during and immediately
following her studies at Goldsmiths' College and the Royal College
of Art, and her early explorations into abstraction. The artist's
working method is brought into high relief in a newly commissioned
conversation with Riley and Sir John Leighton, Director of the
National Galleries of Scotland. The text explores the cardinal
moments in the artist's practice and the impulses that bring her
work into existence. The volume also includes four previously
published texts dedicated to Riley's studies and practice written
by the artist herself, art historians, curators and museum
directors, which shed further light on the enduring role of drawing
and the process of exploration central to her work. With over 200
illustrations
During the mid-1980s, Riley introduced a new pictorial device, the
rhomboid, to her then predominantly vertical stripes, developing
her exploration of interplaying tones of green, yellow and orange.
This allowed the artist to construct new visual relationships
between divergent colours and forms, creating what she terms a
'harmony of contrasts' that animates the entire visual field.
Tracking a transitional period in Riley's career, the works on
paper in this volume - studies produced between 1984 and 1995 -
shift from a focus on the vertical stripe to increasingly complex
diagonal compositions. Illustrated in full colour, the works are
accompanied by a historic interview with the artist by Robert
Kudielka and a text by Riley's archivists Natalia Naish and
Alexandra Tommasini, situating these studies in relation to major
paintings produced during this period.
Bridget Riley is one of the most important British painters of our
time. Since the early 1960s, when she first gained recognition with
her powerful black and white paintings, the artist has continued to
explore the principles of abstraction in startling and original
ways. Through her systematic engagement with colour, tone, form and
structure, Riley pushes the boundaries of perception, challenging
us to look at the world anew. This landmark publication brings
together for the first time all of Bridget Riley's known paintings,
including well over 650 works ranging from the late 1940s to 2017.
Each painting is illustrated with a full-page colour image, many of
which have been sourced from the artist's extensive archive and
rarely published. Drawing on archival research and expert
knowledge, the publication includes an introductory essay,
explanation of materials and methods, extended exhibition history,
biographical information and explanatory notes. The publication
benefits from the remarkable input of Bridget Riley herself, who
has been present at every stage of the project and has provided
first-hand information about her work and exhibition and sales
history. Bridget Riley: The Complete Paintings is a seminal visual
resource and provides the most comprehensive overview of the
artist's paintings to date.
Bridget Riley has made screenprints throughout her career,
extending the principles of her paintings into a new, reproducible
medium. Bringing together the complete, updated inventory of this
substantial body of work, this volume explores Riley's development
as a printmaker and her relationship to the screenprint medium.
Newly revised, updated and designed, this catalogue raisonne richly
illustrates Bridget Riley's graphic work in a larger, enhanced
format. Alongside a full-colour inventory of the prints are updated
essays by Lynn MacRitchie and Craig Hartley and an additional essay
by Robert Kudielka, which provide a greater context for Riley's
work. This revised volume, a co-publication with The Bridget Riley
Art Foundation, also benefits from supplemental material including
an artist biography and selected solo and group exhibition history.
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