Jack Reilly News and Events

June 14, 2008. Jack Reilly's exhibition "Diamonds" opened in Paris at the Galerie Pavillion du Val de Grace, Paris American Academy, after a one week delay due to the paintings being held by French customs pending additional documentation.

April 26, 2008. Reilly's third solo exhibition of 2008 opened at the Upfront Gallery in downtown Ventura CA.

March 9, 2008. Reilly's "New Abstraction" series opened in Los Angeles at Jose Drudais-Biada Gallery, Mount. St. Mary's College.

February 1, 2008. A review written by critic Josef Woodard on Reilly's exhibition at Artamo Gallery in Santa Barbara was published in the Santa Barbara News Press. Woodard referred to Reilly's new paintings as "maximal...ascetic action painting...they fall into some nether region in the contemporary art scheme and are more personal and richer for it."

January 24, 2008. In the Santa Barbara Independent, writer Aly Comingore refers to Reilly's new paintings as "enormous works of art..." in her review "Three reasons Why Jack Reilly's Art Make Math Fun."

December 20, 2007. California Thinkin' at the CSUCU Exhibitions Gallery in Camarillo, CA featured a group of artists who created artwork especially designed for contemporary skatebaoards. Reilly's piece "Technicolors" was based on a spin-off of his current New Abstraction series and included in the exhibition that was cocered in the V.C. Reporter by writer Matthew Singer.

July 2007. Marked the opening of "Ebb/Flow" at the East-West Gallery in Santa Barbara, CA. The unique exhibition showcased "surf related fine art" which included custom surfboards painted by a select group of well-known California artists. Reilly's piece entitled "King Tut Thruster" consisted of Reilly's signature brushwork in a mosaic of colors across the deck with the entire bottom and rails of the board guilded in lustrous gold leaf.

January 22, 2007. Reilly's new video sculpture "Prime Time Viewing" was included in the international invitational exhibition "Electronics Alive IV" at the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, FL