Art School

Audio: 

Bridget Riley (b. 1931)
Girl Reading
1958
Pastel
Collection of the artist
© Bridget Riley 2023. All rights reserved.

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Rachel Federman: Hi, I'm Rachel Federman, associate curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, and co-curator of the exhibition: Bridget Riley Drawings: from the Artist's Studio. In this interview from 2019, Riley reminisces about her decision to attend art school.

Bridget Riley Drawings: from the Artist's Studio. In this interview from 2019, Riley reminisces about her decision to attend art school: Bridget Riley: Before I started to draw, though, I started to look. I actually didn't think about being an artist at all. Well, I didn't think about art either. I thought, to find a context in which somehow I could exercise something in me, which I didn't know what it was, but it was about looking. And where to do that, it just seemed, that, the only place I could go was to an art school.