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"

"Mixing It Up"  20" x 24"  oil/paper/panel  2012

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“Mixing It Up”  20” x 24”  oil/paper/panel  2012

San Fernando – Constance Haas 82, and her late husband
Frank began caring for homeless youth in the 1940’s.
Over the years, more than 700 foster children have called her Mom. Some have come and gone, while others have stayed long enough to graduate from high school.  San Fernando, CA 2004

Elizabeth Carey, from Gainesville, Georgia, retired poultry worker, with her 16-month granddaughter, Brandy Rowden. She says she joined the clan to fight drug  addiction and abortion. Gainsville, Georgia 1986


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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"