Jack Reilly (artist)

Jack Reilly is an American artist known for his complex shaped canvas paintings. His work is widely exhibited and included in public and private collections internationally. Reillys early abstract paintings reflected various influences of prominent artists of the time including Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Ronald Davis, Jules Olitski, and Trevor Bell . Each of these abstract painters dealt with structure, color, atmosphere, light and ambiguous space elements that would eventually converge in Reillys abstract paintings. Shortly after moving to Los Angeles in 1978, Reillys 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 synthesis of geometric abstraction and pictorial depth, which is also referred to as Abstract Illusionism. In 1979 Reillys work was exhibited in his first so

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