Review Excerpts from Jack Reilly Exhibitions

" Reilly's work is clear, self-possessed and has a visual seductiveness" William Wilson, LOS ANGELES TIMES

"These poetic works exist in a world of frozen harmony and are symbolic of classical idealism, refinement, and purity." Linda Jacobson, ARTS MAGAZINE

"Jack Reilly is a handy multimedia conceptualist with something to say... the artist has a clever and distinctive approach." Josef Woodard, LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Meticulously plotted designs become abstract, enormous works of art through out-there color palettes and almost sculpture-like presentation." Aly Comingore, THE SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

" His paintings can make viewers stop in mid-step." Maggie Wilson, THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC

" Reilly's paintings reflect upon the mainstream of painting since abstract expressionism of the 1940s." Judith Weiner, DETROIT PRESS GAZETTE

" He does offer immediate pleasure in carefully orchestrated compositions, meticulous technique, complexity of shadows and ambiguity of light source." Suzanne Muchnic, LOS ANGELES TIMES

" Reilly's new paintings define his approach to complex problems of spatial representation while providing a solution to many of its pictorial dilemmas." Michael Blaine, ARTWEEK

" After meditative looking the viewer is provoked into integrating this juxtaposition of real things and illusions." Robert Harding, NEW YORK ARTWORLD

" Reilly's paintings make an effective statement about the opposing forces at work in art making and in life." Stephen Grossman, ARTWEEK

"His Painting thrives on extremes" Les Krantz, NEW YORK ART REVIEW

"Fresh, postmodernist whole is the name of the game." Josef Woodard: LOS ANGELES TIMES

" Reilly has created quintessentially postmodern works" Nancy Ann Jones, ARTWEEK

"completely outrageous" Marlena Donahue, LOS ANGELES TIMES

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