Arrest 2
Framed: 79 3/8 × 77 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (201.61 × 197.49 × 6.99 cm)
- L4
Bridget Riley, South West Galleries Association, Scotland, September 1986-April 1987, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr; Dick Institute, Lilmarnock; McLean Art Gallery, Greenock; Lille Art Gallery, Milngavie; Museum & Art Galleries, Paisley, unnumbered.
Bridget Riley: Works 1961-1998, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria, November 10, 1998-January 31, 1999, no. 14.
Bridget Riley: Paintings from the 1960s and 70s, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, June 18-August 30, 1999, no. 19.
Bridget Riley: Preparatory Drawings and Studies, Robert Frazer Gallery, London, June 8-July 9, 1966, no cat.
Bridget Riley: Selected
Paintings, 1961-1999, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen,
Dusseldorf, October 31, 1999-January 9, 2000, unnumbered.
Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, September 20, 2000-June 17, 2001, no. 17.
Bridget Riley, Tate Britain, London, June 26-September 28, 2003, no cat.
Bridget Riley's distinctive paintings, called Op Art by 1960s critics, delight and disorient the eye. A repetitive vocabulary of shapes and colors-in this case undulating ribbons ranging from black to cool gray-creates a visual experience that may generate a visceral or even emotional response.
Although Riley's work is not derived from observation, there is a tie to the natural word. According to the artist, "…the eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift…"
Acquired by Pace Wildenstein Gallery from the artist, New York, by 2001;
Purchased from PaceWildenstein by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2001.
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Bridget Riley: Works 1961-1998, exh. cat. (Kendal, Cubria: Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 1998), 37, (repro.).
Lisa G. Corrin, et. al., Bridget Riley: Paintings from the 1960s and 70s, exh. cat. (London: Serpentine Gallery, 1999), 83, (repro.).
Michael Krajewski, et. al., Bridget Riley: Selected Paintings, 1961-1999, exh. cat. (Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 2000), 22, (repro.).
Lynne Cooke and John Elderfield, Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance, exh. cat. (New York: Dia Center for the Arts, 2001), 78, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook
of the Collection (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 221, (repro.).
Jan Schall and Robert Storr, Sparks!
The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative (Kansas City: Trustees of the Nelson Gallery Foundation, 2008), 108, 109, (repro.).
