John McNamara
  • Recent Paintings
    • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization" >
      • "Fake"
      • "The Gift" 36" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2021
      • "Deep" 30" x 90" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017/18 >
        • "Monsters" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
        • "KINGDOM' >
          • "Real Light" 40" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2001
          • "Safety"
          • "Speed and Compression"
          • "Futility"
          • "Disease"
          • "Echo"
          • "Lost"
          • "Integrated Polarities"
          • "Utilitarian Abstraction"
        • "Encroachment"
        • "5.18.16"
        • "Let's Twist Again Like We did Last Summer" >
          • "The Modernists" >
            • "Mixing It Up"
            • "Painters of the Past"
            • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
          • "Worlds" >
            • "The Rigor of Facade"
            • "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" >
              • "Solitude" >
                • "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
                • "The Suitors" >
                  • 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"
          • "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"
        • "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" >
          • "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"
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  • Recent Paintings
    • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization" >
      • "Fake"
      • "The Gift" 36" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2021
      • "Deep" 30" x 90" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017/18 >
        • "Monsters" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
        • "KINGDOM' >
          • "Real Light" 40" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2001
          • "Safety"
          • "Speed and Compression"
          • "Futility"
          • "Disease"
          • "Echo"
          • "Lost"
          • "Integrated Polarities"
          • "Utilitarian Abstraction"
        • "Encroachment"
        • "5.18.16"
        • "Let's Twist Again Like We did Last Summer" >
          • "The Modernists" >
            • "Mixing It Up"
            • "Painters of the Past"
            • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
          • "Worlds" >
            • "The Rigor of Facade"
            • "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" >
              • "Solitude" >
                • "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
                • "The Suitors" >
                  • 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"
          • "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"
        • "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" >
          • "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"