Bret Reilly American, b. 1967
Donald Trump #2, 2025
Black acrylic on solidified crumpled cold-pressed paper
50"H x 48"W x 4"D
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From The Artist: My Crumpled series has enabled me to bridge my two very different art worlds- sculpture and painting. These paintings begin as a sculpture- crumpling heavy watercolor paper-...
From The Artist:
My Crumpled series has enabled me to bridge my two very different art worlds- sculpture and
painting. These paintings begin as a sculpture- crumpling heavy watercolor paper- solidifying
the back side- then, I paint. 150 hours and a thousand tiny lake shapes later, there’s a
recognizable face, like Lincoln, or a complete stranger that the viewer is meeting for the first
time.
I believe sculpture needs to embody movement in order for it to work aesthetically. Somehow, I
have achieved movement as well in these crumpled paintings. As the viewer moves around the
painting, it changes- it moves. Each piece becomes infinitely different depending on where
you’re looking at it from. These works are kinetic
My Crumpled series has enabled me to bridge my two very different art worlds- sculpture and
painting. These paintings begin as a sculpture- crumpling heavy watercolor paper- solidifying
the back side- then, I paint. 150 hours and a thousand tiny lake shapes later, there’s a
recognizable face, like Lincoln, or a complete stranger that the viewer is meeting for the first
time.
I believe sculpture needs to embody movement in order for it to work aesthetically. Somehow, I
have achieved movement as well in these crumpled paintings. As the viewer moves around the
painting, it changes- it moves. Each piece becomes infinitely different depending on where
you’re looking at it from. These works are kinetic
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