An important Op Art retrospective is currently taking place at the David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

“Post-Op: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After” features some of the key Op Artists who exhibited in the original 1965 Responsive Eye exhibition at MoMA including:

Francis Celentano
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Hannes Beckmann
Karl Benjamin
Ernst Benkert
Thomas Downing
Lorser Feitelson
John Goodyear
Francis Hewitt
Leroy Lamis
Mon Levinson
Alexander Liberman
Ed Mieczkowski
Oli Sihvonen
Julian Stanczak
Peter Stroud
Tadasky

There are 34 pieces on display from 34 artists. It is the first in a series of exhibitions commemorating the 50th anniversary of the original Responsive Eye exhibition and will take a closer look at the works of those key artists both during the peak Op Art time (mid to late 1960s) and later in their careers.

The exhibition runs from February 27th to April 12, 2015.

David Richard Gallery
Railyard Arts District
544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501

A new exhibition of works by Marius Strugariu, who we featured on the site some time ago, opens on 14th March 2015 (8pm) at B32 Artspace, Bourgognestraat 32, 6221 BZ Maastricht, The Netherlands.

The exhibition is called AB ORIGINE. You can find out more information here. The exhibition runs from 14th March to 29th March and is open Thursdays and Fridays 1pm – 6pm and Saturdays and Sundays 2pm – 8pm.

“AB ORIGINE is a time/space introspection, where archaic symbols define contemporary issues. The observer is invited to reflect upon his Absolute Self, in the midst of a field of collective memories coming from the roots of existence.

In what the artist calls Mirrors, embodied in an installation of paintings, he depicts the pure Potential of our inner Self through reflections over ones self perceptions.

Its all about harmonic frequencies that fuse the mental states together with the Essence of the source of knowledge and information.

The artist invites us to step further into understanding the mechanisms of constraint and comprehend a field of absolute unconditional energy.”

The Art Institute of Chicago is currently hosting Bridget Riley’s first US solo exhibition at an American museum in 15 years.

Ascending and Descending Hero (1963-5 Bridget Riley)

The exhibition features one of the museum’s own pieces – Ascending and Descending Hero (1963-5) shown above – as well as several of Bridget Riley’s ‘stripe’ paintings. A key piece on display though is Riley’s only sculptural work – Continuum (1962) – which is on show for the first time ever in the US.

Bridget Riley – Continuum (1962 – Acrylic on Aluminium)

The exhibition can be found in Gallery 294 at the Institute and runs from Tuesday, November 11, 2014 through to Sunday, March 8, 2015. Entrance to the Museum is not free – pricing details can be found on their website.

Opening hours

Friday – Wednesday 10:30am – 5:00pm

Thursday 10:30am – 8:00pm

A major Julio Le Parc exhibition is currently running at Malba – Fundación Costantini, Avda. Figueroa Alcorta, 3415 Buenos Aires, Argentina. The exhibition opened at the beginning of July and will run until October 6, 2014.

It features a selection of works by Le Parc (born Mendoza, Argentina in 1928) belonging to the Daros Latin America Collection, Zurich. The exhibition focuses primarily on Le Parc’s Kinetic experiments with light that he completed in the 1960s. There are 16 installations on display in 2 halls of the museum.

Opening times: Thursday–Monday noon–8pm, Wednesday noon–9pm

Polly Merredew is taking part in a new exhibition at Quad in Derby (QUAD, Market Place, Cathedral Quarter, DerbyDE1 3AS). The exhibition is part of a series of 3-D inspired events taking place at Quad. The exhibition runs through to Sunday 23rd February 2014. Entrance is free. The organisers found Polly’s work through this site so I’m kind of pleased about that.

Untitled
120cm x 120cm
Acrylic on Canvas
Polly Merredew

“X-Y-Z  is an exhibition that explores 3D through the work of international artists utilising age-old techniques such as lenticulars, autostereograms, stereograms, holography and anaglyph 3D. Here these classic and nostalgia-inducing methods which offer us the illusion of depth and three-dimensionality are embraced and championed.

Using these techniques the artists play with the notion of perception and sensation, giving us an opportunity to view the world in a unique and playful way. Each artist tackles different concepts within their work, from Thomas Hämén’s series Metadata (stereogram) inspired by the computer generated Magic Eye® autostereograms from the 1990s, to Chloe Humenko’s stunning filmic anaglyphic 3D photographs, evoking memories of classic 3D cinema.

The resulting exhibition takes us on a nostalgic journey through the recent history of 3D technology and how it is being applied creatively to contemporary art practice.”