Measure For Measure by Bridget Riley

A screenprint in three colours on Fabriano 5 paper by Bridget Riley, titled, dated and numbered 33 from the edition of 175.  
 
Sheetsize 63.5 x 62.3 cm, framed size 68 x 67 cm. Published in 2020, and titled Measure for Measure, after Riley's 2017 Disc Paintings (see below).
 
More than half a century after her first groundbreaking works of Op Art in the early 1960s, Bridget Riley is still working on the edges of perception, exploring the interactions of form and colour in her paintings.
 
For her 2017 exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler in Paris, titled Measure for Measure, she installed eight canvases and two wall works, one of them more than four meters wide.
 
In these works, all part of her series of Disc Paintings (2016–-2017), coloured discs are arranged in a diagonal grid, their palette – a greyed off-green, off-violet, and off-orange – inspired by pointillist artist George Seurat.
 
The colours oscillate depending on the neighbouring hues and their position within the grid, lending each work a different mood.
 
The series is both “a result of Riley looking one more time at Seurat” and an “exploration of the visual effects obtained by the repetition on a limited surface of discs which vary only in colour”, as Éric de Chassey points out in his richly illustrated essay. He outlines Riley’s developing interrogations involving first black and white, then coloured discs during various work phases.
 
Born in 1931 Riley attended Goldsmiths College (1949-52) and the Royal College of Art (1952-55). In 1960 she developed 'Op Art' and so started an on going series of paintings and prints that continues to this day.
 
Bridget Riley exhibited in 'Young Contempories' in 1955 and followed with exhibtions at Johnn Moores, Whitechapel, Moma, Venice Biennale amongst many others.
 
Her works are in major private, corporate as well as public collections worldwide.
 
This piece is framed in a white wood frame with UV filtering Perspex glazing.