The Armory Show New York 5th – 8th March 2015.
To coincide with a major exhibition at our gallery in London – ‘Bridget Riley Prints 1962 – 2015’ – we are also dedicating a portion of our stand at the 2015 Armory Show to a specific period of Riley’s career. Focusing on the period between 1986 and 1995, our selection of six works on paper and five screenprints together mark an important transitional phase in her work.
Referred to as her rhomboid period, the ridged vertical bands of colour that typify her earlier Egyptian stripe paintings begin to fracture into diagonal forms and planes. The interlocking bands of broken colour that emerge create a new sensation as the elements and colours recede and project. The sharp diagonal shapes of the rhomboids pave the way for her curve paintings; the works on view at the Armory clearly show this pivotal shift.
