Please join us virtually on Friday, November 13th at 7 PM when Pamela Reilly sits down with Bob Foster for an Artist Talk! This online program will be broadcast on YouTube and Facebook.

Hoboken-based artist Pamela Reilly draws on photography, memory, and personal experience to create vivid paintings of people and landscapes. After a period devoted to
caring for her family, Reilly returns to exhibition with a solo presentation at the Hoboken
Historical Museum: ‘A Sense of Place: Recent Paintings of Hoboken,’ which opens with a reception on November 15th from 2 – 5 PM.

Reilly studied art and art history at Smith College and the College of Fine Arts at Boston
University. She continued her education at the Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She also studied at the New York Feminist Art Institute, where artist Faith Ringgold introduced her to the tradition of story quilts with their focus on community. Reilly apprenticed with sculptor Sidney Simon and worked with him at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where guest lecturers included David Hockney and Louise Nevelson. More recently, she has studied painting privately with artist Henry Finkelstein.

Reilly has had four solo exhibitions of figurative work at Ceres Gallery in New York. The Edith Barrett Art Gallery at Utica College presented a ten-year overview of her work, Inner Circles, and she was also a guest lecturer at the college. Her earlier oil pastels, drawings, quilts, and photo transfers have been included in numerous group exhibitions, including the prestigious Fiber National.

Reilly’s work continues to explore the relationship between observation, memory, and lived experience. We are excited to learn more about her upcoming show and creative journey!

Please tune in on November 13th!