NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART - Pop and Op celebrates that unparalleled, unforgettable era of the '60's - a time when artists cast their eyes toward mass culture and advertising art and fashioned a wholly new and accessible look for the American art scene.

Influenced by the images of advertising, promotion and mass production, artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were dubbed pop artists like Briget Riley and Vasarely emerged as op artists, employing new technologies to produce art with hard-edged geometric designs that seem to move and change, producing unexpected optical illusions.