Jack
Reilly emerged
on the Los Angeles art scene in 1978 with his geometric
abstract paintings. His
early work, featured in a 1979 solo exhibition at the Molly Barnes
Gallery, addressed issues of the era focusing on aspects of structure,
color and ambiguous space. By
1980 Reilly's new shaped-canvas paintings were exhibiting in museums
and represented by galleries throughout the United States: in
Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Scottsdale, Detroit among
other cities. Articles and reviews on Reilly's paintings were subsequently
published in Arts Magazine, Artweek, the Los Angeles Times and
numerous periodicals and books. In fall
1983 the Stella Polaris Gallery in downtown Los Angeles
presented a solo show of Reilly's new "Dimensional Paintings" which
led to his inclusion in author/art historian Edward Lucie-Smith's
book "American Art Now." In 1989 the Boritzer-Gray Gallery
in Los Angeles presented Reilly's "Classic Series" which
were quickly dubbed "Quintessentially Post Modern." The
1990s yielded numerous large-scale, public art and corporate commissions for
Reilly with major projects created for the County of San Diego
Public Arts Program and American Airlines at Los Angeles International
Airport. Recently Reilly
unveiled his "New Abstraction" series (2006-2008) and remains
an extremely prolific painter and
practitioner of abstract art. Pictured below is a series of chronological
images of Reilly dating from the late 1970s to the present.
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