Jack Reilly (artist)
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Jack Reilly (born 1950) is an American (Los Angeles) artist known for his complex shaped canvas paintings. His work is included in numerous public and private collections internationally. Reilly's early abstract work reflected various influences of prominent artists of the time including Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Ronald Davis, Jules Olitski, and Trevor Bell. Each of these painters dealt with structure, color, atmosphere, light and ambiguous space; elements that would eventually converge in Reilly's abstract paintings. Shortly after moving to Los Angeles in 1978, Reilly's geometric abstraction emerged, extracting and redefining elements prevalent in contemporary abstract painting. His work commented on numerous formal and pictorial issues of the era, and by combining illusionary space with color field painting, Reilly created a unique synthesis of geometric abstraction and pictorial depth. In 1979 Reilly's work was exhibited in his first solo show in Los Angeles at the Molly Barnes Gallery. That same year, curator Donald Brewer included Reilly's painting in a major museum exhibition entitled "The Reality of Illusion," an international survey of painting and sculpture that explored "trompe l' oeil" in both abstract and representational art. The exhibition opened at the Denver Art Museum and traveled throughout the United States for two years.
By 1980 Reilly's paintings were represented by galleries in major American cities including the Molly Barnes Gallery in Los Angeles, Aaron Berman Gallery in New York, Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts in San Francisco and Marilyn Butler Gallery in Scottsdale. Articles and reviews on Reilly's shaped canvas paintings were subsequently published in Arts Magazine, Art Week, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications including American Art Now (1985) by noted author and art critic Edward Lucie-Smith.
The 1990s yielded large-scale public art and corporate commissions for Reilly with the County of San Diego Public Arts Program and American Airlines at Los Angeles International Airport. In the mid 1990s, Reilly's artwork evolved in scope with the inclusion of experimental film, video and digital imagery. Today, Jack Reilly remains an extremely prolific painter. In addition to his current work in painting, Reilly is the Chair of the Art Department at California State University Channel Islands. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, an Arizona Commission on the Arts grant and numerous other awards for his work. His paintings are included in collections of the Arizona State University Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California and corporate collections including Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) and Verizon Communications among others.
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Woodard, Josef. A Wild Ride Through Art History, Los Angeles Times, Arts Section, October 10, 2002
Lucie-Smith, Edward. American Art Now, New York: Wlliam Morrow Co. pp. 139-140, 1985 (Color Reproduction).
Marrow, Marva. Inside the L.A. Artist, Salt Lake City, UT: Peregine Smith Books. p. 78, 1986 (Color Reproduction)
Landa, Robin. An Introduction to Design, Englewood, NJ: Prentis Hall, p. 21, 1983 (B&W Reproduction).
Brewer, Donald. Reality of Illusion, American Art Review Press, 1979, ISBN 0-9602974-0-5 (Color Reproduction).
