Jack Reilly is known for his complex paintings on shaped canvas structures. His work is exhibited in galleries and museums and included in numerous public and private collections internationally. Major public art commissions include a forty foot painting, executed in enamel on steel, for San Diego County, and an eighteen foot shaped-canvas painting, commissioned by American Airlines at Los Angeles International Airport.

"Fresh, postmodernist whole is the name of the game," Josef Woodard: LOS ANGELES TIMES. "Quintessentially Post Modern," Nancy Ann Jones: ARTWEEK. "Completely Outrageous," Marlena Donahue: LOS ANGELES TIMES. "An innovative use of mixed-media materials is combined with a sense of Baroque restlessness," Edward Lucie-Smith: AMERICAN ART NOW