Review Excerpts from Jack Reilly Exhibitions
 
  • " Reilly's work is clear, self-possessed and has a visual seductiveness"
    William Wilson, LOS ANGELES TIMES
  • "These poetic works exist in a world of frozen harmony and are symbolic of classical idealism, refinement, and purity."
    Linda Jacobson, ARTS MAGAZINE
  • "Jack Reilly is a handy multimedia conceptualist with something to say... the artist has a clever and distinctive approach."
    Josef Woodard, LOS ANGELES TIMES
  • " His paintings can make viewers stop in mid-step."
    Maggie Wilson, THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
  • " Reilly's paintings reflect upon the mainstream of painting since abstract expressionism of the 1940s."
    Judith Weiner, DETROIT PRESS GAZETTE
  • " He does offer immediate pleasure in carefully orchestrated compositions, meticulous technique, complexity of shadows and ambiguity of light source."
    Suzanne Muchnic, LOS ANGELES TIMES
  • " Reilly's new paintings define his approach to complex problems of spatial representation while providing a solution to many of its pictorial dilemmas."
    Michael Blaine, ARTWEEK
  • " After meditative looking the viewer is provoked into integrating this juxtaposition of real things and illusions."
    Robert Harding, NEW YORK ARTWORLD
  • " Reilly's paintings make an effective statement about the opposing forces at work in art making and in life."
    Stephen Grossman, ARTWEEK
  • "His Painting thrives on extremes"
    Les Krantz, NEW YORK ART REVIEW
  • "Fresh, postmodernist whole is the name of the game."
    Josef Woodard: LOS ANGELES TIMES
  • " Reilly has created quintessentially postmodern works"
    Nancy Ann Jones, ARTWEEK
  • "completely outrageous"
    Marlena Donahue, LOS ANGELES TIMES
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