New York painter William Wood'sabstractions are swirling,
gestural illusions. Using a restrained palette of blue-grey
with white and black, Wood creates paintings of extraordi-
nary spatial complexity. Their three-dimensional quality
infers a photographic process. Their imagery is organic and
fluid - suggesting biology or meteorology. Their strength is
their ability to resist definition.

For more than twenty-five years, John O'Reilly has montaged
re-photographed images taken from art history books and
pornography into beautiful and haunting narratives that mani-
pulate space and time. His most recent group of pictures, "Tears,"
is his most abstract, and perhaps, most interesting. Figures have
been replaced by shadows. Bodies are torn apart and re-joined in
horrible contortions. Space is fractured, reflected and layered.
Unquestionably, these are visions of a loss of self -- open to inter-
pretation is whether it is through ecstasy, or death.