Untitled (Fragment 1) from Fragments

Bridget Riley

1965

A screenprint on acrylic sheet in which Bridget Riley arranges repeating black bands to force the eye into a shimmering, almost painful sense of movement and spatial ambiguity.

Stark black stripes converge toward a tiny central point, appearing to fold and pulsate so the flat white surface seems to ripple and recede into depth.

Made during the height of Op Art, this print distills Riley’s systematic experiments in rhythm and perception, showing how minimal graphic systems can actively shape vision and influence design and visual science.

Palette

Art Terms

Print Geometric abstraction Abstraction Monochrome Figure/ground relationship Op art Screenprint Silkscreen

Exhibitions

British Drawings

1977

Untitled Exhibition

1969

Younger Abstract Expressionists of the Fifties

1971

Untitled III

1972