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 pictorial space. By 1980 Reilly's shaped-canvas paintings were exhibited in museums and represented by galleries throughout the United States in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Scottsdale among numerous other cities. Articles and reviews on Reilly's paintings are 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 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 was quickly dubbed "Quintessentially Post Modern." During 1990s Reilly received major commissions for large-scale, public and corporate artworks, with projects created for the County of San Diego Public Arts Program and American Airlines at Los Angeles International Airport. In 2006, Reilly unveiled his "New Abstraction" series of lushly painted shaped canvases. To date, Reilly remains an extremely prolific painter and practitioner of abstract art. Pictured below is a series of chronological images dating from the late 1970s to the present.