On the 1st July, 2012, Briget Riley was awarded the prestigious Rubens Prize for her life’s work.  The Rubens Prize given to artists whose life’s work has been ground-breaking within the European art world and is awarded once every 5 years.  It takes its name from the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens.  Other notable Rubens prize winners include Francis Bacon, Sigmar Polke, Lucian Freud, Rupprecht Geiger, and Antoni Tàpies.

The Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (Germany) is honoring Bridget Riley with an exhibition of her work to mark the occasion.

Made514 is an Italian artist (and graffiti artist) living in Padua (Padova) in the Veneto region of Italy who has created some fascinating black and white Op Art style murals.  Born in 1975, Made514 developed an interest in graffiti in his late teens during the early 90s.  Since then “he has pursued his interest towards techniques as sculpture and painting aiming at discovering and experimenting the artistic possibilities which can arise from the combination of these different crafts. The result is the use of graffiti techniques on conventional movable surfaces.”

You can see more of Made514’s excellent wall paintings, sculptures and other art on his website.

Terry Haggerty is a New York and Berlin based British artist (born London 1970) who produces huge wall installations based on extremely precise, clean geometric stripes which make use of a minimal colour set to stunning effect.  He also produces paintings in a similar style.  You can see more of Terry’s work on his website.

Terry’s wall installations have featured at, amongst other places, the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium, CCNOA in Brussels and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Thanks to Nathalie as always for pointing this out to me.

You can buy a UV reactive hand pulled screen print, signed and numbered on 255gsm archival matte paper, of Carl’s excellent R/W/B now on ltdart.co.uk now.

My suggestion is that you get in there fast as it’s an edition of only 45 and several have already gone (despite being launched just this morning).  Also, at £45 (+ shipping) it’s a complete steal.

Under UV light:

We first featured some of the art of Bradley Munkowitz back in November 2011.  Today we’re delighted to be adding some of Bradley’s new work to the site.

Bradley was commissioned back in 2011 to create a huge mural for a friend’s tech company.

“Munkowitz was hired by his dear friend Rebecca Allen, the CEO and Creative Director of the Boston-based tech company Infrared5, to design a mural for their studio space which had recently undertaken a full renovation… The artwork was to be 11′ x 11′, approximately 13,000 pixels square, and was to be output at a local print facility specializing in large format digital printing.. The project was a delicious design challenge, and a thorough exploration was conducted to get to the final submission…”

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You can see Bradley’s original page together with more of his new work here.