For his show “Hudson Sublime,” Chris Reilly presents in Gallery 1 on the first floor, a series of paintings inspired by the Hudson River School artists, who, he says, “sought to portray the sublime in nature.” Working primarily in encaustic, an ancient medium comprising beeswax pigment and natural resins, his process begins with applying gesso to wood panel, then adding gouache before sealing with encaustic using a blowtorch. The heated tools and brushes serve to “emulate the growth and form of waterscapes that shape the landscape.” Reilly was raised in New City, NY, and received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States and currently lives and works in San Diego, CA. For more, see his Instagram at cgreilly2000.

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BORN

1967 New Rochelle, NY and raised in New City, NY.

EDUCATION

1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2021 Kava Collective San Diego, CA

2019 Blue Azul Collection San Diego, CA

2018 Meyer gallery Park City,UT

2015 Meyer Gallery Park City, Utah

2015 Diehl Galley “Aviarium, Jackson, WY

2014 Archangel Gallery Palm Springs, CA

2013 Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum, ID

2012 Meyer Gallery Park City, UT

2011 “new Works” Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum, ID

2010 “new Paintings” Etra Fine Art Miami,FL

2010 “new Work” Winston Wachter Fine Art Seattle, WA

2010 Meyer Gallery Park City, UT

2009 “Buddhamirror” Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

2008 “New Work”, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA

2007 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2007 “Spiral Heart Shell”, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 2006

Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY

2005 Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA

Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2004 “create. destroy. preserve.”, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, CA

2003 Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO

2001 “Nimbus”, Eyre/ Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA

“Imago”, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

“Christopher Reilly & Michele Haglund”, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID 2000

“Halo”, Avenue Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

1999 Eyre/ Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA

Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

1998 “Immanent and Translucent”, R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA 1997

“Growth and Stillness”, R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA “Fossil”, Allen

Sheppard Gallery, Piermont, NY

1995 “Creation, Growth, and Dissolution”, The Writing Center, San Diego, CA

1994 “The Nature of Things”, “B” Street Gallery, San Diego, CA “Stillness”, The

Writing Center, San Diego, CA

1989 “Duality in Nature”, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 “Summation” Escondido Municipal Gallery Escondido,CA

2019 Diehl Gallery “The Gloaming”

2018 Woodbury Art Museum Orem, UT “Art of our Century”

2020 Kava Collective “recent Works” san Diego,CA

2009 “50 San Diego Artists” Quint Fine Art La Jolla, CA

2008 “Summer in Chelsea”, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY

2008 “Group Exhibition” Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 2002

“Terrain”, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO

“Beyond Botanica”, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

2001 Allan Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY

Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2000 “Summer Group Exhibition”, SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1998 “Summer Group Exhibition”, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“A Common Thread”, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

“Animism: Icon, Metaphor, Myth”, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

1997 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

“Winter Group Exhibition”, R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1996 Allen Sheppard Gallery, Piermont, NY

“Summer Group Exhibition”, R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA

“5th Annual Juried Exhibition”, Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA

1996Park City Gallery, Park City, UT

Susan Street Gallery, Solana Beach, CA

1995 The Art Institute, San Diego, CA

1993 “B” Street Gallery, San Diego, CA

AWARDS

1996 Third Place, The La Jolla Athenaeum 5th Annual Juried Exhibition 1991

Second Place, Del Mar Fair Painting Exhibit

1989 Francis Criss Memorial Purchase Award

PUBLICATIONS

Rankin, Lissa Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide

Skinner, Tina 100 Artists of the West Coast #2

Rose, Joshua, Waxing Poetic”, American Art Collector January 2008 (with

reproductions)

Busler, Leslie, “Artists to Watch”, Southwest Art, Sept. 1998 (with reproduction)

Baldridge, Charlene, “In Love with the Light”, La Jolla Village News, Apr. 1997

(with reproduction)

Pincus, Robert, “Doing Justice to the Juried”, San Diego Union Tribune, May 16,

1995

Saville, Jonathan, “Experiences of the Sacred”, San Diego Reader, May 5, 1994

(with

reproductions)