John McNamara
  • "Running" 24" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
  • Recent Paintings
  • "Solitude"
  • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization"
    • "Echo"
    • "Fake" >
      • "KINGDOM' >
        • "Real Light" 40" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2001
        • "Safety"
        • "Speed and Compression"
        • "10 Moments from the Twentieth Century"
        • "Futility"
        • "Disease"
        • "Echo"
        • "Lost"
        • "Integrated Polarities"
        • "Encroachment"
        • "Utilitarian Abstraction"
    • "The Gift" 36" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2021
    • "Painters of the Past"
    • "Just Visiting" >
      • "White on Color" >
        • "The Long Shot" >
          • "Survival of the Fittest"
        • "Encroachment" >
          • "Deep" 30" x 90" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017/18 >
            • "Monsters" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
            • "5.18.16"
            • "Let's Twist Again Like We did Last Summer" >
              • "The Modernists" >
                • "Mixing It Up"
                • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
              • "Worlds" >
                • "The Rigor of Facade"
                • "Solitude" >
                  • "WoW" 20" x 24" oil/paper/panel 2013 >
                    • "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
                  • "The Suitors" >
                    • 5.10.16 - Landscape >
                      • "Bridges and Plumbing"
                      • "The Man"
                      • "Possibilities" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2014
                    • "Inside Out"
                    • "Untitled" (after the painting titled "Anticipation is Greater than Realization, 20" x 30", 2013)
                    • "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" >
                      • "Philosophy" >
                        • "Beauty"
                        • "Generic Reconstitution"
                        • "The Flow" >
                          • "Tug of War"
                          • "Unreal"
                          • "Who's on Top?"
                        • "Velvet Underground" 30" x 24" Oil/Paper/Panel 2021
                        • "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"
                    • "Monday"
                    • "Landscape"
                • "The Obsession to Feel"
                • "Seduced"
                • "Whittling Down" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2020
                • "The Inextricable Hold" (2nd version) >
                  • "Surveillance"
                • "Breakdown"
                • "Echoes of Remnants"
                • "The Unforeseen and the Inevitable"
                • "Fabrication of an Illusion" 24" x 36" Oil/Paper/Panel 2021
                • "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"
                  • "Empathy"
                • "Tripping"
                • "The Showoff and the Introvert" >
                  • "The Inextricable Hold"
                • "Encounter"
                • "The Doubt in Belief" >
                  • "The Clan"
              • "The Art World"
          • "Battle"
          • "The Idolatry of Longevity"
    • "The Conspiracy"
    • "Stay in Tonight"
    • "Asleep at the Wheel"
    • "Lights Out"
    • "Trip"
    • "Queen of the Feminists"
    • "Lost"
    • "Memory"
    • "Anthroland" 48" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 1998
    • "Weather System"
    • "Seduced Again"
    • "Flux" 12" x 32" oil/paper/panel 2013
    • "Intersection"
    • "Obsession"
    • "Unreal"
                                                                                                               "Generic Reconstitution"
 The point of reference for these paintings comes from a 1992 Macmillan Visual Dictionary, a book I bought the year it was published. I remembered an observation one person made when I showed him the book. He said he didn't have much of a response to the images therein because they were too generic. I remembered that comment after all these years when I recently uncovered the book again. My primary thought with these small paintings is to give the generic illustrations within this book a new identity and presence through a process of layered, painterly  painting. This will be an ongoing series. Directly below is the painting "Plane,"  12” x 16,” oil/paper/panel, 2014. Below that is the cover of the dictionary, with images from the book on either side.

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"Airplane"  12" x 16"  oil/paper/panel  2014
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"Washer/Dryer"  12" x 18"  oil/paper/panel  2014


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“Engine” 14” x 14” oil/paper/panel 2014

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“Space Shuttle”  14” x 14”  oil/paper/panel  2014
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“Submarine”  12” x 18”  oil/paper/panel  2014

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“Fire Truck”  11” x 14”  oil/paper/panel  2014
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“Tennis Player/Soccer Player”  12” x 9”  oil/paper/panel  2014
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“Bicycle”  12” x 16”  oil/paper/panel  2014
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“Fish” 11” x 14” oil/paper/panel 2014
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"Sax"  24" x 12"  oil/paper/panel  2014
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"Car"  12" x 16"  oil/paper/panel  2014
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"Wheelchair"  9" x 12"  oil/paper/panel  2014
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"Refrigerator/Stove"  9" x 12"  oil/paper/panel  2104
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"Male/Female"  16" x 12"  oil/paper/panel  2014
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 "Sewing Machine - 9" x 12" oil/paper/panel  2016
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"Quarterback"  14" x 18" oil/paper/panel 2015
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"Nuclear Power Plant" 12" x 24"  oil/paper/panel  2015
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"Hot Air Balloon and Jumper"  12" x 9"  oil/paper/panel  2016
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"Jetpack"  14" x 14'  oil/paper/panel  2014
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"Cathedral"  11" x 14"  oil/paper/panel  2016
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"Cameras" 11" x 14"  oil/paper/panel  2016
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"Art Supplies"  20" x 24"  oil/paper/panel  2014
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Wall Shot
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"Smoking"  12" x 12"  oil/paper/panel  2016
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  • "Running" 24" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
  • Recent Paintings
  • "Solitude"
  • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization"
    • "Echo"
    • "Fake" >
      • "KINGDOM' >
        • "Real Light" 40" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2001
        • "Safety"
        • "Speed and Compression"
        • "10 Moments from the Twentieth Century"
        • "Futility"
        • "Disease"
        • "Echo"
        • "Lost"
        • "Integrated Polarities"
        • "Encroachment"
        • "Utilitarian Abstraction"
    • "The Gift" 36" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2021
    • "Painters of the Past"
    • "Just Visiting" >
      • "White on Color" >
        • "The Long Shot" >
          • "Survival of the Fittest"
        • "Encroachment" >
          • "Deep" 30" x 90" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017/18 >
            • "Monsters" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
            • "5.18.16"
            • "Let's Twist Again Like We did Last Summer" >
              • "The Modernists" >
                • "Mixing It Up"
                • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
              • "Worlds" >
                • "The Rigor of Facade"
                • "Solitude" >
                  • "WoW" 20" x 24" oil/paper/panel 2013 >
                    • "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
                  • "The Suitors" >
                    • 5.10.16 - Landscape >
                      • "Bridges and Plumbing"
                      • "The Man"
                      • "Possibilities" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2014
                    • "Inside Out"
                    • "Untitled" (after the painting titled "Anticipation is Greater than Realization, 20" x 30", 2013)
                    • "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" >
                      • "Philosophy" >
                        • "Beauty"
                        • "Generic Reconstitution"
                        • "The Flow" >
                          • "Tug of War"
                          • "Unreal"
                          • "Who's on Top?"
                        • "Velvet Underground" 30" x 24" Oil/Paper/Panel 2021
                        • "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"
                    • "Monday"
                    • "Landscape"
                • "The Obsession to Feel"
                • "Seduced"
                • "Whittling Down" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2020
                • "The Inextricable Hold" (2nd version) >
                  • "Surveillance"
                • "Breakdown"
                • "Echoes of Remnants"
                • "The Unforeseen and the Inevitable"
                • "Fabrication of an Illusion" 24" x 36" Oil/Paper/Panel 2021
                • "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"
                  • "Empathy"
                • "Tripping"
                • "The Showoff and the Introvert" >
                  • "The Inextricable Hold"
                • "Encounter"
                • "The Doubt in Belief" >
                  • "The Clan"
              • "The Art World"
          • "Battle"
          • "The Idolatry of Longevity"
    • "The Conspiracy"
    • "Stay in Tonight"
    • "Asleep at the Wheel"
    • "Lights Out"
    • "Trip"
    • "Queen of the Feminists"
    • "Lost"
    • "Memory"
    • "Anthroland" 48" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 1998
    • "Weather System"
    • "Seduced Again"
    • "Flux" 12" x 32" oil/paper/panel 2013
    • "Intersection"
    • "Obsession"
    • "Unreal"