ART-064 Grace Alhades — Op Art "Woven Ribbons" Abstract Painting No. 2, Oil on Canvas, 36.5" × 36.5", Signed & Dated '78

A bold original Op Art painting by Grace Alhades, signed and dated '78 — a companion work to the Grace Alhades hard-edge abstract already in the Spatial Art-Works collection. This square-format canvas presents Alhades working in a distinctly Op Art mode: interlocking woven ribbon forms that create optical movement and depth through light highlights, a technique that rewards sustained looking as the eye tracks competing visual rhythms across the surface.

Op Art — short for Optical Art — emerged in the 1960s as a movement exploring the perceptual effects of geometric abstraction, most famously associated with Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely. Alhades's woven ribbon imagery draws on this tradition, using careful tonal modulation to suggest dimensionality and movement in a purely flat painted surface.

The square format (36.5" × 36.5") gives this work an authoritative, centred presence — equally at home as a standalone statement piece or paired with its companion hard-edge canvas.

Details

• Artist: Grace Alhades
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 36.5" H × 36.5" W × 1.5" D
• Signed: Yes — signed and dated '78
• Style: Op Art / Geometric Abstract
• Condition: Please refer to photos. Offered as-is from auction.

Provenance: Uniques & Antiques, Aston PA, June 2023.