Jack Reilly - Photos of the Artist

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