Jack Reilly - Current Paintings

The circle holds strong significance as a fundamental geometric shape and has played a crucial role in astronomy, mathematics, physics, and religious traditions. Jack Reilly's circular paintings depict light, color, and illusive pictorial space, on circular shaped canvas structures. Reilly's early career began with a series of museum and gallery exhibitions that led to his recognition as an original artist of the Abstract Illusionism movement, and today he remains one of the foremost artists working in shaped canvas. His elegant visual systems, signature brushwork and meticulous technique incorporates acrylic polymers and metallic pigments, resulting in a visual effect that is often compared to Gothic stained glass and Byzantine mosaics. Within the center of these circular objects lie wide-open spaces, alluring portals of soft fields of color. The artwork displayed on this page represents Reilly's current work from the ongoing series.