JOHN O'REILLY
John O'Reilly constructs intimate and beautiful black and white photographic montages. Using a Polaroid camera, he photographs scenes set up in his studio, his own body, or familiar surroundings. He also rephotographs images from magazines, history books, gay porn, and other sources. He then cuts and pastes these various images into collages in which figures and objects morph into each other amidst fragmented backgrounds.
These images are put together with the same sort of psychological glue as our dreams. History and fantasy intertwine and become indistinguishable. The past, present and future co-exist. Unlikely juxtapositions are inexplicably logical and uncannily apt.
These images are put together with the same sort of psychological glue as our dreams. History and fantasy intertwine and become indistinguishable. The past, present and future co-exist. Unlikely juxtapositions are inexplicably logical and uncannily apt.
Wrestlers 12.16.08, 2008
Wrestlers 9.15.08, 2008
Studio Landscape Dogtown-Hartley series 12.3.08, 2008
Dogtown-Hartley series 1.11.10, 2010
A Shadow, 2010
Wrestlers 9.2.08, 2008
Dead Centaur - Of Cormac McCarthy, 2008
Rape of Ganymedes, 2008
Heros Series: Paris 2/8/06, 2006
Tadzio Series: Wake 4/5/06, 2006
Hugh (From the Henry James Series), 2007
Jeffrey (From the Henry James Series), 2007
