Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Christopher Reilly's exhibition of new paintings on view from February 21-April 1, 2006. The artistís new works address imagery of natural transformation and evolution. Reilly draws inspiration from iconic eastern and western imagery including the goddess and nature. His work emerges from an interest in the juxtaposition of inherent duality and the fusion of opposites. Reilly incorporates natural life forms like the frog and dragonfly, which symbolize the eternal cycle of evolution and the jellyfish, which alludes to pleasure and pain. His paintings often include foliage, seeds, and blossoms to indicate the eternal nature of natural cycles and the nascent stages of growth. Reillyís subtle, nuanced forms and delicately sublime palette create a meditative, magical, fantastical space. Though based primarily on natural forms and spiritual embodiments, Reilly creates a dream-space, a realm characterized by imagination and mystery.

Reilly works in encaustic and creates his paintings through a process of creation, destruction, and preservation. Reilly begins with a white gypsum ground on canvas or panel and uses pastels and watercolor as an under-painting, which is then sealed with molten wax. Layers of encaustic are then applied to the foundation; a heat gun is used to fuse the layers of wax together. Sometimes opaque watercolor is added and then selectively removed in certain places in order to reveal the original layer. The resulting smooth, sensual encaustic surface enhances the fluid and transformative effects of his paintings.

Christopher Reilly was born in New York and currently lives and works in San Diego, CA.

For further information please contact Amanda Snyder at [212] 327 2526