Review
Excerpts from Jack Reilly Exhibitions |
"Jack Reilly exhibits skills comparable to those employed by magicians and lauded architects."
Diane Calder, VISUAL ART SOURCE - ARTSCENE (Los Angeles). |
"Reilly's work is clear, self-possessed and has a visual seductiveness"
William Wilson, LOS ANGELES TIMES |
"These
poetic works exist in a world of frozen harmony and are symbolic
of classical idealism, refinement, and purity."
Linda Jacobson, ARTS MAGAZINE
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"Jack
Reilly is a handy multimedia conceptualist with something
to say... the artist has a clever and distinctive approach."
Josef Woodard, LOS ANGELES TIMES |
"Meticulously
plotted designs become abstract, enormous works of art through
out-there color palettes and almost sculpture-like presentation."
Aly Comingore, THE SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT |
"His paintings can make viewers stop in mid-step."
Maggie Wilson, THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC |
"Reilly's paintings reflect upon the mainstream of painting
since abstract expressionism of the 1940s."
Judith Weiner, DETROIT PRESS GAZETTE |
"He does offer immediate pleasure in carefully orchestrated
compositions, meticulous technique, complexity of shadows
and ambiguity of light source."
Suzanne Muchnic, LOS ANGELES TIMES |
"Reilly's new paintings define his approach to complex problems
of spatial representation while providing a solution to many
of its pictorial dilemmas."
Michael Blaine, ARTWEEK |
"After meditative looking the viewer is provoked into integrating
this juxtaposition of real things and illusions."
Robert Harding, NEW YORK ARTWORLD |
"Reilly's paintings make an effective statement about the opposing
forces at work in art making and in life."
Stephen Grossman, ARTWEEK |
"His
Painting thrives on extremes"
Les Krantz, NEW YORK ART REVIEW |
"Fresh,
postmodernist whole is the name of the game."
Josef Woodard: LOS ANGELES TIMES |
"Reilly has created quintessentially postmodern works"
Nancy Ann Jones, ARTWEEK |
"completely
outrageous"
Marlena Donahue, LOS ANGELES TIMES |
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