About Bridget Riley

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    "Bridget Riley, Through Her Own Eyes, Art & Design Section", The New York Times, March 17, 2020, by Karen Rosenberg

    Britain’s pre-eminent abstract painter looks anew at her career, from her black-and-white 1960s Op Art to her contemporary explorations with color.

    Bridget Riley, who has been celebrated in Britain as a national treasure, has gone back to her own beginnings as an artist for a show at the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut:

    Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction: Through July 24 at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.;

    “I’m always interested in the beginnings of other artists’ work,” Bridget Riley says. “How they start is quite important.”

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