thomas Reilly
My focus for several years has been to portray the ordinary in a noble light. Tools, household objects, storefronts, abandoned churches, working-class people - all are sources for portraiture in the broader sense. Once selected, each subject presents me with the challenges of composition, spatial relationships, color interaction and the qualities of shape and edge. These formal elements become the personal language and history of the subject, allowing its story to be told without words. Underlying that story is the connectedness we feel for it, how it is a part of our individual stories as well. In the end I hope to convey my respect for the objects or persons I’ve painted.
bio
Name:
Thomas Reilly
1 Buttonball Trail
Norwalk, CT 06851
203-216-5240
treilly_@hotmail.com
Education:
BFA, SUNY, Purchase, NY
MFA, WCSU, Danbury CT
experience:
Studio assistant to
HELEN FRANKENTHALER
Artist/assistant
2 museum installations for
SOL LEWITT
Mock-up Specialist
Yale University Art Gallery
Volunteer
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING, Norwalk , CT
SPONSORED PROJECTS:
New Zealand Series
Prairie Churches Series
MAJOR SHOWS:
Center for Contemporary Printmaking
Norwalk, CT
Art of the Northeast - Silvermine, CT
(Award, 1997)
Katonah Museum, NY
22 Haviland Street Gallery,
South Norwalk, CT
Washington Art Association
Washington, CT
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Pardee-Morris House, New Haven, CT
Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY
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