Coming in 2009 you will be able to collect Anthony’s works as ACEO’s. ACEO stands for Art Cards Editions & Originals. These individual art miniatures are a concept that can be traced back to the portrait miniatures popular with Impressionistic era artists. ACEO’s are a fun and exciting way to collect and share art. These beautiful and collectable cards are produced in very limited edition on high quality 80lb cotton duck canvas. Each card measures 2.5” x 3.5” and is signed and numbered by the artist. They can be bound together into individual binder collections or can be framed and displayed in your office or home. The bottom line…ATC’s and ACEO are the ultimate way to collect art.

Simply stated, Anthony Lilly’s work explores morality in its extremes. The most basic concepts of right and wrong, virtue and vice are flaunted in vivid Technicolor so the observer pays attention. To view Lilly’s work as a whole you can see the evolution of a theme. “You ARE the Holy Spirit” is representational of moral clarity; ones spiritual quest and aspiration to exalt the soul. It’s speaks to our need to be virtuous and respectable.

His technique is to paste, press, and lightly shellac each individual layer, then bind the front of a foam core backing to the back of the fabrics with a tailor’s thimble, securing it with hundreds of stitches. After treatment to the back and multiple pressings the foam core hardens and the project is complete. His respect for craftsmanship and longevity in art is what drives him to such thoroughness in is own works. Each piece can take anywhere from a month to a year or more to complete depending on the level of complexity.

Step into the world of “You Win Some, You Lose Some” where the soul slips into a sordid encounter with vice, experiencing all its temptations, shadowy characters and obvious dangers.

“WAR & ANGELS” is the culmination of the opposing poles of virtue and vice clashing and struggling for supremacy within each of us; the wanting to live a moral and virtuous life battling against the want to thrill in the excitement of what is deemed by society as sin. It is the ultimate battle between Freud’s Super-ego and Id that Anthony Lilly so beautifully recreates with is art.

A series of 4 Car Crashes, fabric collages, are now on exhibit in the Gallery.  Click the Car Crash above to visit.