JOseph McNamara: IN Actuality

On View: Febraury 5 - 27, 2021

“McNamara chooses to work with imagery that carries iconic power. He sometimes locates his subject matter with an arranged plane trip, sometimes an unplanned trespass on a construction site nearby, and everything in between.”

Chelsea Barge

2020-2021, oil on panel, 30×38”

The Atomic Sphinx (Portrait of Mark Tansey)

2015-2019, oil on panel, 48×60”

Train Yard Vestiges

2020, oil on board, 16.5×14.5”

Strip Mall Cowboy

2019-2020, oil on panel, 24×18”

D 24

2019, oil on board, 22×32”

Hudson River Barge

2019-2021, oil on board, 32×38”

Sawtooth Valley

2018-2020, oil on panel, 36×45”

Manifold Manifolds

2020, oil on board, 22×32”
SOLD

Bonnie Ship the Blackhawk

1999-2019, oil on board, 33×38”

Citi Field Construction

2020, oil on board, 12×24”

Excavator Loading Shovels, Yankee Stadium Demolition

2019-2020, oil on panel, 16×20”

Kern, CA

2019-2020, oil on board, 15×19”

The Cancelling Machine

2018-2019, oil on panel, 30×36”
SOLD

Joy

2016-2020, oil on board, 13×12”

Central Park

1997-2020, oil on board, 32×22”

Hudson River Skeleton Piers

2020, oil on panel, 24×36”

JOseph McNamara

Joseph McNamara is a New York-based, realist painter whose work--often large-scale-- is centered on paintings of the industrial landscape and his relationship to it. His paintings are painstakingly detailed and can take months and even years, to complete. McNamara uses photographs as aids, however, the paintings are not “photo-realistic”: each painting strays away from a strict accounting of the subject matter and takes on a life of its own.