{"id":18688,"date":"2023-05-19T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18688"},"modified":"2023-06-07T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T20:24:42","slug":"john-oreilly-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/john-oreilly-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"John O&#8217;Reilly Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">John O&#8217;Reilly (American, 1930-2021)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Reilly is known for photomontages combining themes of religion, history, literature, art, and homosexuality. He spent most of his life in Worcester, Massachusetts as an art therapist and discovered his passion for making art later in life\u2014a talent that he only shared with his friends. In order to create his photomontages, O\u2019Reilly would photograph images from history books and magazines for collages. Disparate elements in his work morph into one another, fashioning a distorted yet unified world composed of fragments. Often, O\u2019Reilly appears in his own images as well as includes fragments of other famous artists\u2019 self-portraits, commenting on his connections to his works\u2019 subject matter and theme.<br>An article in <em>The New York Times<\/em> described O\u2019Reilly as \u201cone of our greatest living artists of mysterious, erudite, and confounding photomontages.\u201d He received his BFA from Syracuse University and MFA from the School of the Arts in Chicago. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Worcester Museum of Art; and the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John O&#8217;Reilly (American, 1930-2021) O\u2019Reilly is known for photomontages combining themes of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18688","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19489,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18688\/revisions\/19489"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}