John McNamara
  • Recent Paintings
    • "Worlds" >
      • "The Obsession to Feel"
      • "Seduced"
      • "Whittling Down" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2020
      • "The Inextricable Hold" (2nd version) >
        • "Surveillance" >
          • "Breakdown"
      • "The Unforeseen and the Inevitable"
      • "Painters of the Past"
      • "Where is Matthew Barrall?"
      • The Gift of Consciousness: The Challenge to Negotiate Meaning
      • "The Modernists" >
        • "Five of All" 24" x 36" oil/paper/panel 2019
        • "Secular Sanctuary" 48" x 72" Oil/Paper/Panel 2019
        • "It's What's Under the Hood that Counts"
        • "The Trail of Seduction" >
          • "Where the First Kiss Leads" >
            • "Exit 18: Vigil for Jay DeFeo" >
              • "KINGDOM' >
                • "Real Light" 40" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2001
                • "Safety"
                • "Speed and Compression"
                • "Futility"
                • "Disease"
                • "Echo"
                • "Lost"
                • "Integrated Polarities"
                • "Utilitarian Abstraction"
        • "Empathy"
      • "Tripping"
      • "The Showoff and the Introvert" >
        • "The Inextricable Hold"
      • "Encounter" >
        • "Solitude" >
          • "The Suitors" >
            • "WoW" 20" x 24" oil/paper/panel 2013 >
              • "Running" 24" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
              • "Echo"
              • "Cycle" 30" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017 >
                • "Apex" 30" x 20' oil/paper/panel 2013 >
                  • "Compressed"
                  • "Magic" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
              • "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained" 9" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
              • "Transcendent Banality" >
                • "Unreal"
              • "Glimmer" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
              • "Death Valley" 12" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
            • 5.10.16 - Landscape >
              • "Bridges and Plumbing"
              • "The Man"
              • "Possibilities" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2014
            • "Inside Out"
            • "Second Mortgage"
            • "Leveled"
            • "Fracture"
            • "The New Sculpture"
            • "Climbing"
            • "Duped"
            • "The Collapse of Pretense" >
              • "The Showoff and the Introvert"
            • "Mergers: 10 Paintings - 20Portraits" >
              • "Wise Ass"
              • "Century" 40" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2017
              • "Back to Square One"
            • "The Grid"
            • "Beauty and the Beast"
            • "Optimism's Promise" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2019
            • "Second Life"
            • "Moment"
            • "Monday"
            • "Landscape"
      • "The Doubt in Belief" >
        • "The Clan"
    • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization" >
      • "Fake"
      • "Deep" 30" x 90" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017/18 >
        • "Encroachment"
        • "5.18.16"
        • "The Rigor of Facade"
        • "Let's Twist Again Like We did Last Summer" >
          • "The Modernists" >
            • "Monsters" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
            • "Mixing It Up"
            • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
          • "The Art World"
      • "Just Visiting" >
        • "White on Color" >
          • "10 Moments from the Twentieth Century"
          • "The Long Shot" >
            • "Survival of the Fittest"
          • "Encroachment" >
            • "Battle"
            • "The Idolatry of Longevity"
      • "Philosophy" >
        • "Beauty"
        • "Generic Reconstitution"
        • "Faceoff" >
          • "The Conservator" >
            • "The Loss of Memory: The Inability to Forget 24" x 30" o/p/p 2019
            • "Pathway"
        • "Minimalism's Maximalism" >
          • "Flashback"
          • "Larry's Place"
        • "Lost"
        • "Transcendence" >
          • "Old Time Painting"
        • "Fifty Times the Area"
        • "Lost" >
          • "The Flow" >
            • "Tug of War"
            • "Unreal"
            • "Who's on Top?"
      • "The Conspiracy"
      • "Stay in Tonight"
      • "Asleep at the Wheel"
      • "Lights Out"
      • "Trip"
      • "Queen of the Feminists"
      • "Lost"
      • "Untitled" (after the painting titled "Anticipation is Greater than Realization, 20" x 30", 2013)
      • "Memory"
      • "Anthroland" 48" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 1998
      • "Weather System"
      • "Seduced Again"
      • "Flux" 12" x 32" oil/paper/panel 2013
      • "Intersection"
      • "Obsession"
      • "Unreal"

 "Encounter" 18" x 24"  oil/paper/on panel  2010

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“The Encounter”  18” x 24” oil/paper/panel 2010

The 80-mile All-American Canal not only irrigates
California’s Imperial Valley, it’s also a perfect swim
spot along the Mexican border. Although climbing
through the western most edge of the border fence
is technically illegal, on particularly hot days the
border patrol tends to look the other way.
(Calexico, CA) 1986

Snow monkeys are famous for their intelligence and social behavior. They use tools, wash their food, and have a complex system of communication. They are also very aware of status within their society, paying close attention to age, strength, and family relationships among members. Snow monkeys play a prominent role in Japanese culture; they are considered to be messengers of the Shinto gods and symbols of success and good fortune.


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  • Recent Paintings
    • "Worlds" >
      • "The Obsession to Feel"
      • "Seduced"
      • "Whittling Down" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2020
      • "The Inextricable Hold" (2nd version) >
        • "Surveillance" >
          • "Breakdown"
      • "The Unforeseen and the Inevitable"
      • "Painters of the Past"
      • "Where is Matthew Barrall?"
      • The Gift of Consciousness: The Challenge to Negotiate Meaning
      • "The Modernists" >
        • "Five of All" 24" x 36" oil/paper/panel 2019
        • "Secular Sanctuary" 48" x 72" Oil/Paper/Panel 2019
        • "It's What's Under the Hood that Counts"
        • "The Trail of Seduction" >
          • "Where the First Kiss Leads" >
            • "Exit 18: Vigil for Jay DeFeo" >
              • "KINGDOM' >
                • "Real Light" 40" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2001
                • "Safety"
                • "Speed and Compression"
                • "Futility"
                • "Disease"
                • "Echo"
                • "Lost"
                • "Integrated Polarities"
                • "Utilitarian Abstraction"
        • "Empathy"
      • "Tripping"
      • "The Showoff and the Introvert" >
        • "The Inextricable Hold"
      • "Encounter" >
        • "Solitude" >
          • "The Suitors" >
            • "WoW" 20" x 24" oil/paper/panel 2013 >
              • "Running" 24" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
              • "Echo"
              • "Cycle" 30" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017 >
                • "Apex" 30" x 20' oil/paper/panel 2013 >
                  • "Compressed"
                  • "Magic" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
              • "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained" 9" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
              • "Transcendent Banality" >
                • "Unreal"
              • "Glimmer" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
              • "Death Valley" 12" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
            • 5.10.16 - Landscape >
              • "Bridges and Plumbing"
              • "The Man"
              • "Possibilities" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2014
            • "Inside Out"
            • "Second Mortgage"
            • "Leveled"
            • "Fracture"
            • "The New Sculpture"
            • "Climbing"
            • "Duped"
            • "The Collapse of Pretense" >
              • "The Showoff and the Introvert"
            • "Mergers: 10 Paintings - 20Portraits" >
              • "Wise Ass"
              • "Century" 40" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2017
              • "Back to Square One"
            • "The Grid"
            • "Beauty and the Beast"
            • "Optimism's Promise" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2019
            • "Second Life"
            • "Moment"
            • "Monday"
            • "Landscape"
      • "The Doubt in Belief" >
        • "The Clan"
    • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization" >
      • "Fake"
      • "Deep" 30" x 90" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017/18 >
        • "Encroachment"
        • "5.18.16"
        • "The Rigor of Facade"
        • "Let's Twist Again Like We did Last Summer" >
          • "The Modernists" >
            • "Monsters" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
            • "Mixing It Up"
            • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
          • "The Art World"
      • "Just Visiting" >
        • "White on Color" >
          • "10 Moments from the Twentieth Century"
          • "The Long Shot" >
            • "Survival of the Fittest"
          • "Encroachment" >
            • "Battle"
            • "The Idolatry of Longevity"
      • "Philosophy" >
        • "Beauty"
        • "Generic Reconstitution"
        • "Faceoff" >
          • "The Conservator" >
            • "The Loss of Memory: The Inability to Forget 24" x 30" o/p/p 2019
            • "Pathway"
        • "Minimalism's Maximalism" >
          • "Flashback"
          • "Larry's Place"
        • "Lost"
        • "Transcendence" >
          • "Old Time Painting"
        • "Fifty Times the Area"
        • "Lost" >
          • "The Flow" >
            • "Tug of War"
            • "Unreal"
            • "Who's on Top?"
      • "The Conspiracy"
      • "Stay in Tonight"
      • "Asleep at the Wheel"
      • "Lights Out"
      • "Trip"
      • "Queen of the Feminists"
      • "Lost"
      • "Untitled" (after the painting titled "Anticipation is Greater than Realization, 20" x 30", 2013)
      • "Memory"
      • "Anthroland" 48" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 1998
      • "Weather System"
      • "Seduced Again"
      • "Flux" 12" x 32" oil/paper/panel 2013
      • "Intersection"
      • "Obsession"
      • "Unreal"