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Press Release Checklist John O'Reilly Echo: Recurrent Themes 1965-2007 January 17 - February 16, 2008 The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce our fifth solo exhibition with John O’Reilly. The exhibition entitled Echo: Recurrent Themes 1965-2007 includes twenty-eight works spanning 42 years, from 1965 in a large work entitled “Self Portrait”, to a recent Polaroid montage from August 2007. What unifies the works are recurring themes, subjects and formal elements including the studio, Greek mythology, feet, flowers, circles and relationships. Although all of the work involves collage elements, the mediums and scale vary dramatically from the large scale early work to tiny recent Polaroids. The show includes several little known color collages from the 1980s. O’Reilly’s work reached the attention of the American art public when Klaus Kertess included him in the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Sara Rimer profiled him in the New York Times Magazine calling him “The Sixty Five Year Old Sensation.” The public was not aware that the Worcester based artist had been quietly creating powerful collage works for thirty years- and continues to do so. O’Reilly’s work has been written about extensively by some of the leading art critics of our time, including Michael Kimmelman, Kertess, A.D. Coleman, Ken Johnson, Vince Aletti, Vicki Goldberg, David Deitcher, David Levi Strauss, and Francine Koslow Miller. His work is featured in eighteen important public collections including The Musuem of Modern Art, The New York Public Library, The Princeton Art Museum, Williams College Art Museum, The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Addison Museum in Andover which hosted a retrospective in 2002 accompanied by a significant monograph published by Twin Palms. JOHN O'REILLY ECHO: RECURRENT THEMES 1965-2007 JANUARY 17 - FEBRUARY 16, 2008 Entrance: Astride Billy, 1977 Polaroid & Halftone montage 6 1/16 x 7 9/16" Machine, 8-6-05 Polaroid montage 8 7/8 x 24 3/8" In A French Wood, 1987/03 Polaroid montage 3 7/8 x 5 1/2" Main Gallery East wall: Italian Still Life, 11-24-80 paper montage 10 3/4 x 8" A Somerville Youth, 3-4-05 Polaroid montage 7 1/16 x 21 11/16" Dionysians, 2-15-75 paper montage 11 7/16 x 7 7/8" Juggler, 1974 half tone montage 9 x 7 1/2" Bedroom, 1-22-79 paper montage 9 1/2 x 7 3/4" North wall: Looking at Bacchus, 1986 polaroid montage 3 7/8 x 6 1/4” Two Studios 1-16-83 paper montage 8 5/8 x 10 7/8” Eakins Posing, 6/7/06 Polaroid montage 14 1/2 x 9 7/8" Nijinsky in Paris, 1995 Polaroid montage 7 1/4 x 6 13/16” Eakins Double Portrait, 8-31-06 Polaroid montage 22 3/4 x 8 7/8" Carlton With Harry, 1-17-97/02 Polaroid montage 6 11/16 x 7 3/16" Photo Session, 1985 polariod montage 3 1/2 x 4 3/4” In Eakins' Studio, 1985-96 photo motage 4 5/8 x 5 5/8” The Seer, 6-15-79 paper montage 10 3/8 x 7 3/4" Kiss, 5-8-94 Polaroid montage 10 1/2 x 7 3/4" On Henry James - Morgan, 5-2-07 Polaroid montage 9 1/2 x 10 1/4" The Artist's Museum, 1987 Polaroid montage 3 3/4 x 7 7/16” Held by John, 1988 Polaroid Montage 3 3/4 x 6 1/8" Eakins Astride Billy, 5-20-06 Polaroid montage 10 1/2 x 16 1/4” West wall: Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 8-27-07 Polaroid montage 22 1/2 x 24" Sails, 1968/06 paper montage and casein 35 3/8 x 49 1/2" At Mill Creek, 1996 Polaroid montage 3 3/4 x 5 9/16” Occupied Territory #1, Hegler, 1995 Polaroid collage 6 7/16 x 5 1/8” South wall: Achille , 1981 paper montage 8 3/8 x 12 3/4" Father and Son, 11-20-88 paper montage 9 3/4 x 7 13/16" Achille, 1997 Polaroid montage 8 3/4 x 6 5/8” Model by the Virginal, 9-26-81 paper montage 8 1/8 x 6 7/8" Self Portrait, 1965 paper montage and casein 31" x 29.875 My Constellation - Swing, 5-14-73 paper montage and casein 8 7/8 x 8 7/8" Ladder, 11-2-73 paper montage 9 x 8" Tears 8-24-99 (#9), 1999 Polaroid montage 7 7/8 x 6 3/4" top For additional information contact the gallery back |
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