"In 1960, when I was beginning to find my way in my black-and-white work, I made many studies on and around the painting Movement in Squares (1961). I was working as an illustrator at J. Walter Thompson's advertising agency in Berkeley Square and undercover carrying on with my black-and-white work. Willie Landels, who was a leading art director at the agency, took an interest in what I was doing."
"It was a very exhilarating time for me after years of distress and frustration in which I had not been able to find a way of working. Willie wanted to have one of my black-and-white works himself. I was very flattered by this, and he suggested that I made a print of Movement in Squares. Willie enthusiastically took charge. He found a commercial printer, chose suitable paper, and decided the size of the edition."
Bridget Riley's 1962 print Untitled (based on Movement in Squares) presents a warped stratum of black-and-white squares that became a pivotal and iconic early Op Art work. Riley produced six additional black-and-white prints that challenged prevailing notions of visual perception. London's Archeus / Post-Modern presented those seven prints on paper alongside seven Fragments printed on Plexiglas in a by-appointment presentation titled Bridget Riley: Sixties. The work originated during a period when Riley worked as an illustrator at J. Walter Thompson in Berkeley Square, where art director Willie Landels encouraged and arranged the commercial printing and edition decisions.
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