John McNamara
  • Recent Paintings
    • "Worlds" >
      • "Seduced"
      • "The Inextricable Hold" (2nd version) >
        • "Surveillance" >
          • "Breakdown"
      • "Where is Matthew Barrall?"
      • "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"
      • "The Doubt in Belief" >
        • "The Clan"
    • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization" >
      • "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
            • "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"
                  • "Solitude"
                • "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
              • "Death on 5th Avenue"
              • "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"
            • "Mixing It Up"
            • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
          • "The Art World"
      • "The Return of Jay" >
        • "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" >
            • "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)
      • "The Loss of Memory: The Inability to Forget 24" x 30" o/p/p 2019
      • "Memory"
      • "Anthroland" 48" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 1998
      • "Weather System"
      • "Seduced Again"
      • "Flux" 12" x 32" oil/paper/panel 2013
      • "Intersection"
      • "Obsession"
      • "Unreal"

"Magic"  20" x 30'  oil/paper/panel  2013

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“Magic”  20” x 30”  oil/paper/panel  2013

1. A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union   May 15, 1987

A rock concert held in a public space. Kids wear Led Zepline T-shirts, leather jackets, and jeans. It all happened so fast; Gorbachev’s glasnost lifted the lid off of the rock underground in 1986. Skeptics suggest that this liberalization is ultimately designed to coax alienated youth back into the Soviet ideology.

2 - “A Day in the Life of California”  May 2, 1986

Life is a fantasy for Siegfried & Roy, the German born “master illusionists” whose stage spectacular, “Beyond Belief,” has been headlining in Las Vegas’ Frontier Hotel since 1981. On May 2nd, Day in the Life photographer, Francois Robert, visited the “Wizards of Joy” at their nearby $10 million home, “Jungle Palace,” where the attractions included two rare white tigers (white with black stripes), an even rarer snow white tiger (completely white with ice blue eyes), and a fancy bit of levitation.

Robert (pronounced row-bear) says, “After a long negotiation with their manager, we arrived at Siegfried & Roy’s well protected mansion and were admitted along with a local television crew. I wanted to shoot the levitation over water, and, being master showmen, they agreed to do it in the tiger pen. As we discussed earlier, I set up my cameras and then left the scene. When they called us back twenty-five minutes later, Roy was already levitating. I never found out how they did it, but in a way, I’m glad. I’d rather believe there’s still some magic in the world.    Photo - Francois Robert, Switzerland

3 - A Day in the Life of California, 2004

Emeryville – Just do it: Perfecting her wolf jump, Chanell Rensch practices gymnastics at Head Over Heels, where she has taken classes for four years. Unlike many kids, Chanell’s not in it for the competition – she does it for fun.   Photo: Lise Dumont

4 - A Day in the Life of California

April 29, 1988

According to Manouso Manos, instructor at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco, the Rope Headstand”clears the brain and combs the mind.” Student Patricia Sullivan – a master of the intricate toe grip- swears by the exercise, which they say correctly aligns the skeleton. But Manos is sparing with his praise. “Yoga is a continual learning process,” he says.   Photo: Alon Reininger

5 - One Digital Day - 1998

Far Hill, New Jersey

The US Golfing Association makes sure that new gear meets their stringent standards.

As the USGA Research and Test Center in New Jersey, cameras record the light that bounces off the 28 reflectors on Bryan Marks’ body as he swings. The information gathered from the cameras is used to render a 3D model, which is used to measure the force the club places on the body’s joints-information needed for ant new club seeking the USGA seal of approval. Before purchasing the latest iron, players might want to heed the words of Frank Thomas, director of the test lab; “You can’t buy your game.  With all of our high tech testing we’ve found that you’re much better off practicing than buying a new piece of equipment. Photo: Stephanie Maze

  • Recent Paintings
    • "Worlds" >
      • "Seduced"
      • "The Inextricable Hold" (2nd version) >
        • "Surveillance" >
          • "Breakdown"
      • "Where is Matthew Barrall?"
      • "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"
      • "The Doubt in Belief" >
        • "The Clan"
    • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization" >
      • "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
            • "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"
                  • "Solitude"
                • "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
              • "Death on 5th Avenue"
              • "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"
            • "Mixing It Up"
            • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
          • "The Art World"
      • "The Return of Jay" >
        • "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" >
            • "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)
      • "The Loss of Memory: The Inability to Forget 24" x 30" o/p/p 2019
      • "Memory"
      • "Anthroland" 48" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 1998
      • "Weather System"
      • "Seduced Again"
      • "Flux" 12" x 32" oil/paper/panel 2013
      • "Intersection"
      • "Obsession"
      • "Unreal"