Born in Brooklyn, New York, 1942, John Reilly received his early art training at the School of Art and Design in Manhattan, where he studied advertising art. By the time he was twenty-three he owned and operated his own sales promotion agency. Some of his clients included Bacardi Rum, Johnson and Johnson, Nabisco, Taylor Wine and Black & Decker.
John began painting in 1985 with the same focus, creativity and energy that drove his success in advertising. He studied painting in New York City at the Art Student’s League, the National Academy of Design with Sam Adoquei, and privately with Burt Silverman and Everett Raymond Kinstler. In New Jersey, he attended the Newark School of Fine Art.
John’s exhibition history includes such venues as Nabisco Gallery, Audubon Artist’s at the Salmagundi Club, and the National Academy of Design. He has had one person shows at the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, the Watchung Arts Center, Johnson and Johnson Corporate Headquarters, Chubb, and the Robert Wood Johnson Children’s Specialized Hospital. He demonstrates figure painting for art associations throughout New Jersey.
His paintings are currently carried by galleries in the United States in Vermont, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina. Internationally his artwork can be found in Ireland’s County Kerry & Cork.
For a listing of awards, additional biographical information and samples of recent projects visit his website at www.johnreillygallery.com or Who’s Who in American Art. John can be reached directly at (908) 439-4631 or by email: johnreilly.artist@gmail.com.