Joseph McNamara: Realizations

On View: March 2 - 31, 2018
Reception: Friday, March 2, 6 - 8pm

Joseph McNamara is a New York-based artist whose work has 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. Using photographs as aids, they are, however, not “photo-realistic”: each painting strays away from a strict accounting of the subject matter and takes on a life of its own.

Gas Separator, Midway-Sunset Oil Field

2016, oil on panel, 40.5×48.5
SOLD

EAST SIDE ACCESS TUNNEL UNDER CONSTRUCTION

2014-15, oil on panel, 30.5×40.5”
SOLD

THE MAGPIE ON THE GALLOWS FRAME

2014-18, oil on panel, 48x36"
SOLD

JOHN DEERE HARVESTER WORKS, EAST MOLINE IL

2008-14, oil and alkyd on panel, 32x38.5"
SOLD

NEW TAIT HOTEL (as seen from the Hotel Finlen, Butte, MT)

2015, oil on panel, 19.5x24.5"

ARKANSAS BAYOU

2017-18, oil on panel, 25x30"

ROTARY SNOWPLOW

2016, oil on panel, 27x21"
SOLD

TRAILER

2003, oil on panel, 9.5x25"

CONIGLIO NOSTRANO

2015, oil on panel, 7.5x12.75"

FLUSHING BAY HEAT WAVE

2016, oil on panel, 16x21"
SOLD

HOOKED

2017, oil on panel, 10.5x8.5"
SOLD

RUINS AT DAPHNE REVISITED

1993, oil and alkyd on panel, 30x30"
SOLD

8th AVENUE BUILDING FOUNDATION

1998-2007, oil and alkyd on panel, 15x38"

NEIL JENNEY

2012-13, oil on panel, 17x13"
SOLD

WIRE MESH SCREEN, MONTANA

2017, oil on panel, 14.5x11.5"
SOLD

PIER 57

2002-07, oil and alkyd on panel, 25x48"

Corrugated Metal Shack

2016, oil and collage on panel, 11.5×14.5”
SOLD

Joseph McNamara

Josué Bessiake is an African American painter working in Beverly, Massachusetts whose work is heavily influenced by his environment. He was born to two parents who immigrated from Côté d'Ivoire in 1993. Growing up, his family bounced around the Midwest, allowing him to observe a multitude of settings and environments that shaped how he looks at the world. Bessiake's work ranges from abstraction to representation but what all the work has in common is a determination to express his connection to the world around him. Depicting his relationship between the spaces he inhabits and the relationship between those known and unknown. In his practice, Bessiake finds it is crucial to work from life. Taking up the same space as his subjects helps him see them more deeply, gaining a sense of empathy for his subjects.