Screenprint on acrylic sheet
Riley’s Fragments series was her first intensive foray into printmaking, and it represents her experiment with what was then a novel material—plexiglass. “We were excited about trying new materials,” Riley said. “We all wanted the new!” These seven prints feature geometric patterns, torqued to create the slightly dizzying illusion of movement and three-dimensionality. Curves, zigzags, and dots stretch and shrink across the picture planes, challenging our ability to hold these shapes static in our field of vision. Instead of recreating these studies on canvas, Riley let them “remain as fragments of a theme.”
2025
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Gallery 410Jesús Rafael Soto and Bridget Riley, the two artists paired in this gallery, never met. But they each emerged as a leader of the international Op art movement in the 1950s and ’60s.
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