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Jack Reilly emerged on the Los Angeles art scene in 1978 with his geometric
abstract paintings. His early work, featured in a 1979 solo exhibition at the Molly Barnes
Gallery, addressed issues of the era, focusing on aspects of structure,
color and ambiguous pictorial space. By
1980 Reilly's illusionistic shaped-canvas paintings were exhibited in museums
and represented by galleries throughout the United States
in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Scottsdale among numerous
other cities. Articles and reviews on Reilly's paintings are subsequently
published in Arts Magazine, Artweek, the Los Angeles Times and numerous
periodicals and books, including "American Art Now" by noted art historian Edward Lucie-Smith. During the 1990s Reilly received major commissions for large-scale, public
and corporate artworks, with projects created for the County
of San Diego Public Arts Program and American Airlines at Los Angeles
International Airport. During recent years, Reilly unveiled his "New Abstraction" series of lushly painted shaped canvases, Followed by his illusionistic "Basic Object" series. In 2016, the California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks presented a retrospective exhibition of Reilly's work. To date, he remains an extremely prolific painter and a leader in shaped-canvas and abstract illusionistic painting. Pictured below is a series of chronological images dating from the 1970s to the present.
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