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An icon of British art of the 1960s, Bridget Riley is best known for her dynamic black and white geometric paintings. Exploiting optical phenomena to evoke compelling sensations of movement, color and three- dimensionality, Riley’s canvases interrogate not only how we see, but the phenomenological experience of seeing. Much to Riley’s chagrin, her designs—appropriated for use on clothing, posters, textiles and other mass-market paraphernelia—became synonymous with the Op Art fever of the psychedelic ‘60s. While hyper- saturation of Op Art imagery ultimately led to the style’s decline in …