John O'Reilly: John O'Reilly
Archive exhibition
Overview
John O'Reilly, "Tadzio Series: Wake 4/5/06," 2006, polaroid montage, 10.5 x 11.825 inches
For the past 40 years, Boston area artist John O’Reilly has constructed complex and intimate photographic “montages.” Using a Polaroid camera, he re-photographs images from art history, found photographic albums and gay pornography. He cuts and pastes them with Polaroids he takes of himself, his home and his studio — collaging history, art and fantasy. This exhibition consists of eight montages, each a portrayal of a character from literature. Themes that O’Reilly has explored over and over again – beauty, age, ecstasy, death, love, art, artifice – are layered into psychological portraits of characters from Henry James, Thomas Mann and the Iliad. This is O’Reilly’s sixth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery.
Works
![John O'Reilly, Jeffrey [from the Henry James Series], 2007](https://static-assets.artlogic.net/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/hosfeltgallery/images/view/732c79877a1dc029227aca1f242692b24896c8fb/hosfeltgallery-john-o-reilly-jeffrey-from-the-henry-james-series-2007.jpg)
![John O'Reilly, Miles [from the Henry James Series], 2007](https://static-assets.artlogic.net/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/hosfeltgallery/images/view/087be5cbe0a3a5f4a555f6a4cf8bdef291ee4031/hosfeltgallery-john-o-reilly-miles-from-the-henry-james-series-2007.jpg)
![John O'Reilly, Hugh [from the Henry James Series], 2007](https://static-assets.artlogic.net/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/hosfeltgallery/images/view/87e8c615bcb9951532b5e3748efee6ea58807c5d/hosfeltgallery-john-o-reilly-hugh-from-the-henry-james-series-2007.jpg)
![John O'Reilly, Hector [from the Heros Series], 2006](https://static-assets.artlogic.net/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/hosfeltgallery/images/view/bbf8a06ea43078785d9fc4777bb9c9899d2a3282/hosfeltgallery-john-o-reilly-hector-from-the-heros-series-2006.jpg)
