both ways 1, 1965, oliver bevan (details). co-incidence, 1978, oliver bevan (details). bevan s first solo exhibition @ grabowski gallery, london, in 1965 featured 8 op art paintings hard edges , colour fields in black, white , shades of grey, plus red , blue in both ways 1 , 2. paintings based on isometric projections of cube , played on viewer’s visual perception through tonal flicker, figure-ground reversals , other optical ambiguities bevan described ‘a conflict between certainty of geometry , uncertainty of perceptual mechanism in dealing it’, adding paintings ‘clues might possible’. exhibition attracted favourable reviews critics such john dunbar, norbert lynton , guy brett, latter concluding achieves aim of intensifying our awareness of our perceptual processes, implies our awareness of visible world . second exhibition of ten new paintings @ grabowski gallery in 1967 introduced shaped canvases , larger colour palette further provoke viewer active relationship work . concept of...
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