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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. |
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