Projects (2003-Current) > Thinking Drawings (2023)

Thinking Drawings are smaller, palimpsest-like works where ideas and informal, diagrammatic visuals are brainstormed and occasionally crossed-out after being drafted onto the page. These works function as a behind-the-scenes, bonus track which can be used as a key to a more in-depth viewing of formal works produced at the same time. The 2022 show, Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio, at the Art Institute of Chicago and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2016 exhibition, Unfinished, were influential to the conception of these pieces.