Jack Reilly
dal 23/1/2008 al 23/2/2008
Segnalato da
23/1/2008
Jack Reilly
Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara
Art in Shape. The exhibition features a selection of new paintings of the artist, and some smaller pieces and drawings. His works consist of thousands of brushstrokes, multi-layered, shiny and colorful acrylics, including gold and silver.
ARTAMO GALLERY presents Art in Shape, an exhibition of paintings by artist
Jack Reilly. The exhibition at ARTAMO GALLERY features not only a selection
of his newest, mostly large works, but will also compliment these with some
smaller pieces and explanatory drawings.
Each of Reilly¹s paintings consists of thousands of brushstrokes,
multi-layered, shiny and colorful acrylics, including gold and silver. His
compositions are based on linear mathematical structures and designs, that
interact with the non-regular-shaped canvases, sometimes evoking more the
feel of a wall-sculpture than a painting. These non-representational designs
seem to follow the postulate of Concrete Art, the practice of representing
visual concepts or qualities in concrete form (as also in concrete poetry),
which ideally is based on mathematical-geometrical rules ‹ it is not an
abstraction of anything, it has no symbolic meaning, but is the
geometrically constructed visualization of an idea. Yet with the structured
thickness the paint is applied, Reilly leaves that idealistic stance and
adds to a personal, human touch, which offers an additional dimension in his
work.
Jack Reilly received his M.F.A. from Florida State University in 1978 and
shortly thereafter he moved to Los Angeles. In 1979, the Molly Barnes
Gallery in Los Angeles debuted Reilly¹s paintings in a one-person
exhibition. That same year, USC Fisher Gallery¹s curator Donald Brewer
included his work in a major museum exhibition entitled ³The Reality of
Illusion,² an international survey that opened at the Denver Art Museum and
traveled to museums throughout the United States for the following two
years. By the early 1980s, Reilly's work was exhibited in museums and
represented by numerous galleries; including Arron Berman Gallery in New
York City, Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts in San Francisco, Marilyn Butler
Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona and others. Articles and reproductions
featuring Reilly¹s work are published in Arts Magazine, Artweek, the Los
Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine and in books including American Art Now,
Inside the L.A. Artist, and Introduction to Design.
Reilly is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and
numerous other awards. His paintings are included in major public, private
and corporate collections internationally, including the Steve Martin
Collection, the Frederick Weisman Foundation, the County of San Diego's
Public Arts Program, and American Airlines at Los Angeles International
Airport. He is the featured art expert in The Discovery Television Network¹s
program In Pursuit of the Shroud, and currently Chair of the Art
Department and Professor of Art at California State University Channel
Islands <http://art.csuci.edu/> .
The opening reception with the artist will be on Saturday, January 26, from 5 to 8 PM.
Artamo Gallery
11 West Anapamu Street - Santa Barbara
Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 12-5 PM, First Thursday until 8 PM
Free admission