Bridget Riley is a drawer/painter best known for her contributions to the op art movement. She was born in London and still lives and works there. Her work is greatly inspired by Neo-impressionists like Seurat. The way that they broke down scenes into colors is the same vision that is at the root of Rileys art and debatably all op art.

Aside from drawing, she’s also done some murals that I find relate to the theme “Drawing into Space” really well. In 2017, she created a striped mural titled Bolt of Colour that covered a U-shaped former army barracks in Marfa, Texas. I feel like this relates to the class because of the fact that the drawing is circumnavigating a physical space. I’m not quite sure what our next “line” assignment is, but I feel like this could also serve as possible inspiration for us moving into that project.