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"

"Mergers: 10 Paintings/20 Portraits" 24" X 24"per panel  oil/paper/on panel  2006

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Orlan and Phyllis

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Hillary and Barak

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Oprah and Toni

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John and Bill

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Michael and Michael

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Dick and George

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Andy and Jeff

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Pablo and Jackson

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Teresa and Diana

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"Adolf and Vincent"

These paintings began as a series of portraits. I was thinking about singular well-known individuals, when it occurred to me that merging two relational individuals into one portrait would be an interesting challenge. I felt that a smooth clean photo shop merger would be too expected, so I decided to abut half faces side by side, not necessarily aligned, with a slight blend, merge effect. I wanted viewers to realize immediately that these halves were not of the same person, but through an assimilation of the physical, psychological, emotional and intellectual aspects of the individuals, a fusing would occur.

  • 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"