Jack Reilly - Paintings

JACK REILLY is known for his complex paintings on shaped canvas structures. As one of the foremost American painters working in shaped canvas for the past three decades, Reilly has maintained his affinity for purity and simplicity in painting, albeit shrouded in complex visual systems and laborious technique. His work is exhibited in galleries and museums and included in numerous public and private collections internationally. Major public art commissions include a forty foot painting, executed in enamel on steel, for San Diego County, and an eighteen foot shaped-canvas painting, commissioned by American Airlines at Los Angeles International Airport.

"Fresh, postmodernist whole is the name of the game," Josef Woodard: LOS ANGELES TIMES. "Quintessentially Post Modern," Nancy Ann Jones: ARTWEEK. "Completely Outrageous," Marlena Donahue: LOS ANGELES TIMES. "An innovative use of mixed-media materials is combined with a sense of Baroque restlessness," Edward Lucie-Smith: AMERICAN ART NOW.

ABSTRACT PAINTINGS

The New Abstraction (2006-2008 current work). Geometric shaped-canvas structures, densly polychromed abstract surfaces and painterly textures organized in linear formats.

Shaped-Canvas Abstraction (1979-1997) Flat shaped-canvas structures investigate illusionary pictorial space within a geometric abstract format.

Dimensional Abstraction (1983-1987) Layered, shaped-canvas structures, lyrical abstraction consisting of multiple textured planes and suspended polychromatic organic bands of color.

Early Abstraction (1978-1979) illusionary space combined with minimalist color field painting, creating a unique synthesis of geometric abstraction and pictorial depth as linear imagery appears to be suspended in front of the canvas surface.

MIXED MEDIA

Convergence Period (1998-2006) An eclectic mix of abstraction and representational painting, incorporated with richly textured surfaces, bas relief, mosaics, color and pattern on a single-level shaped canvas.

Classic Series (1988-1990) Classical figurative elements combined with geometric abstraction. Individual shaped-canvases are arranged in stacked multiple layers and incorporate various abstract and representational painting methods.