Jack Reilly: Abstract Paintings

Jack Reilly's career as a painter began in Los Angeles as one of the original artists involved in the Abstract Illusionism painting movement that emerged in the United States duing the 1970s. He became known for his abstract paintings on complex shaped-canvas structures. In these works, Reilly challenges traditional concepts of illusionary pictorial space within a geometric abstract painting context. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Reilly's paintings grew in complexity of structure and composition. These works abandon traditional methods used to create visual depth in two-dimensional art, as linear perspective is replaced with the appearance of multiple light sources. The result is a visual paradox, as richly-painted linear imagery appears to be suspended over the surfaces of layered geometric shapes.

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