John O’Reilly, Lex Car Park

Oil on canvas
70x140cm

As a former graffiti artist, O’Reilly’s early subjects were of areas where he often painted graffiti in, including non-pedestrian environments such as the railway and abandoned sites. His work continues to consider the urban landscape even further, presenting banal and marginal exterior spaces. His recent paintings feature monolithic-like environments of asphalt and concrete, of fuel tank farms and car parks.

“Car parks are banal overlooked environments, sometimes featuring wonderfully dynamic lines and colours, that are a striking unforseen example of support structures consequential of a given medium. In an archaeological sense this bespoke temporary architecture reveals contemporary everyday human activity.”