Jack Reilly - Painting

JACK REILLY is known for his complex paintings on shaped canvas structures. As one of the foremost American painters working in shaped canvas, for the past three decades Reilly has maintained his affinity for purity and simplicity in painting, albeit shrouded in complex visual systems and laborious technique. His work is exhibited in galleries and museums and included in numerous public and private collections internationally. Major public art commissions include a forty foot painting, executed in enamel on steel, for San Diego County, and an eighteen foot shaped-canvas painting, commissioned by American Airlines at Los Angeles International Airport.

"Fresh, postmodernist whole is the name of the game," Josef Woodard: LOS ANGELES TIMES. "Quintessentially Post Modern," Nancy Ann Jones: ARTWEEK. "Completely Outrageous," Marlena Donahue: LOS ANGELES TIMES. "An innovative use of mixed-media materials is combined with a sense of Baroque restlessness," Edward Lucie-Smith: AMERICAN ART NOW.

ABSTRACT PAINTINGS

The Basic Object (2009-2010 continuing) Shaped canvas paintings. Two-dimensional surfaces take on visual characteristics of three-dimensional objects and ambiguous pictorial space. Geometric configurations consisting of densly-polychromed surfaces and rich painterly textures.

The New Abstraction (2006-2009) Geometric shaped canvas structures consisting of densly-polychromed abstract surfaces and painterly textures, organized in linear formats based around mathematical and intuitive systems.

Shaped Canvas Abstraction (1979-1997) Complex shaped canvas structures investigate illusionary depth and pictorial space within geometric abstract formats.

Dimensional Abstraction (1983-1987) Layered, shaped canvas structures - lyrical abstraction consisting of multiple planes and suspended polychromatic organic bands of color.

Early Abstraction (1978-1979) illusionary space combined with hard edge and color field painting. A unique synthesis of geometric abstraction merged with pictorial depth as linear imagery appears to be suspended in front of the canvas surface.

MIXED MEDIA

Classic Series (1988-1990) Convergence (1999-2005) An eclectic mix of abstract and classical painting, integrated with rich textures, bas relief, mosaics and guilded surfaces on geometric shaped canvas structures.