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Echo: Recurrent Themes 1965-2007Presented by Julie Saul Gallery January 18, 2008- February 16, 2008Reception: January 17, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmJohn O’ReillyThe 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.
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