 Painting with Two Verticals, 2004 oil on linen, 6' 4" x 8' 8" (193 x 264.2 cm) Bridget Riley Recent Paintings The exhibition features nine large-scale oil on linen curve paintings completed between 2000-2004. A full color catalogue with an essay by Dr. Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas at Austin, accompanies the show. Exploring the artist's work and approach Dr. Shiff writes "Bridget Riley is perceptive: observant, sensitive, discerning. She concerns herself with what goes "unrecognized" - or, as she also identifies it, "the im-perceptible". This Spring Riley's first complete print retrospective organized by the British Council opened in Tallinn, Estonia and is scheduled to travel to Lithuania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, and Slovenia through 2005. The exhibition, originally organized as a National Touring Exhibition by the Hayward Gallery, London, in 2000 toured the United Kingdom through 2003. Later this Fall, a survey of over fifty of Riley's paintings, also organized by the British Council, is scheduled to open at the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg and travel through Switzerland and Australia in 2005. Bridget Riley first received acclaim for her work in the early 1960's soon after her first solo show in 1962 and has since been the subject of over eighty solo exhibitions internationally and four retrospectives. Riley's first exhibition at PaceWildenstein was held in 2000 in conjunction with "Reconnaissance", an exhibition of early work at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York (2000-2001). Bridget Riley (b. 1931, London) studied at Goldsmith's College in London and received a B.A. from the Royal College of Art in 1955. In 1969, Riley was the first woman ever to win the International Prize for Painting at the 34th Venice Biennale. She received Honorary Doctorates from University of Exeter (1997), De Montfort University (1996), Cambridge University (1995), Oxford University (1994), University of Ulster (1986), and University of Manchester (1976). Riley was also appointed the Companion of Honour in 1999, and in 2003, she received the Praemium Imperiale, the International Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, from the Japan Arts Association. Bridget Riley's work can be found in numerous public collections worldwide, including: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Dia Center for the Arts, New York; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri; the Stedelijk Museum; Amsterdam; the Tate Gallery, London; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Exhibition: September 24 - October 23, 2004 Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 9:30am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 5pm PaceWildenstein 32 E. 57th St. 2nd floor USA-New York, NY 10022 Telephone + 1 212 421 3292 Fax + 1 212 421 0835 Email info@pacewildenstein.com www.pacewildenstein.com |
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