Dia Beacon, Beacon, United States
July 17, 2026–Ongoing
This focused exhibition, drawn in part from Dia’s collection, showcases a selection of Bridget Riley’s earliest black-and-white paintings, created between 1961 and 1967, after which she introduced color to her work. Featuring a range of deceptively simple, painstakingly intricate line-based and geometric motifs, each work induces a dynamic visual sensation, the composition appearing to compress and expand as the viewer moves around the canvas. Together, these paintings demonstrate the breadth of perceptual effects Riley achieved with this limited palette and formal vocabulary, illustrating how these formative years laid the groundwork for her decades-long concern with spatial relations within and beyond the work.
Bridget Riley is curated by Liv Cuniberti, curatorial assistant, and Emily Markert, curatorial associate, and made possible by generous support from Every Page Foundation and Jack Kirkland.
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