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Painting, Acrylic, Canvas on Canvas
Size: 36 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in
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As humans, we generally tend to perceive time in a linear manner. However, many of our common devices used to measure time are formatted in circular configurations. These range from ancient sun dials to analog clocks and modern timepieces. In what we perceive as our physical universe, spherical planets rotate while moving in primarily circular orbits around larger spherical objects as they all hurl through the infinity of space. From Stonehenge to medieval calendars to analog wristwatches, humans have attempted to employ circular motifs to harness or understand the passage of time in relationship to space and the physical world in which we exist. This preoccupation with mysteries of the universe, its vast open spaces, punctuated with uncountable heavenly bodies, have puzzled humans from primitive stargazers in ancient worlds to the most educated of scientists of our time. My interest lies in the investigation, through the medium of abstract painting, of our perception and translation of these elements, both tangible and intangible. My choice to begin on a circular structure creates a visual container that refers to the essence of repetition and endless nature of this circle as a metaphor of time and space. The outlying edges of these circular paintings consist of rapidly applied, highly chromatic brushstrokes, which are tightly compressed within hard-edge boundaries that surround the exterior regions of the canvas. My signature brushwork has been compared to the complexities of Gothic stained glass and Byzantine mosaics. Ultimately, within the center if these circular objects, lie wide-open spaces. A sort of an abyss, if you will. Soft fields of color appear to float somewhere behind the polychromed circular edges of the canvas surface. Within these color fields, one can get lost in ambient sensations of light, color, and space and the resulting visual ambiguity.
Painting:Acrylic, Canvas on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:36 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Jack Reilly is long-standing contemporary American artist known for his abstract and mixed genre paintings on shaped canvas structures. His artistic career began in Los Angeles during the late 1970s when he was discovered by legendary L. A. gallerist, Molly Barnes. He is also recognized as an original member of the Abstract Illusionism movement, and as one of the foremost artists working in shaped canvas today. His work is exhibited in galleries and museums internationally and included in numerous public and private collections. Major public art commissions include a forty-foot painting, executed in enamel on steel, for San Diego County, and an eighteen foot shaped-canvas painting commissioned by American Airlines. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant.
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