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"

"Second Life"  48" x 60"  oil/paper/on canvas 2005/06

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This painting comments on the ever expanding digital game world and how that world relates to our “3D reality daily life.” The game in question is called “Second life” and it’s goal is for the player to establish a life within the game, with the payoff being the continued living of that life. Along the way, gamers can amass worldly possessions and live a second life, perhaps a more interesting existence than what they experience in their everyday lives. One enticing aspect of this game is that real world businesses and news agencies have set up shop in this virtual world. This has allowed players to convert the game’s virtual money into real world dollars. Because of this, the IRS has been investigating ways to tax players who make money from playing “Second Life.” My primary engagement with this virtual world stems from the question: where will the continuing blending and blurring of what constitutes reality lead us?
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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"