Went to the artist’s talk of John McNamara at the Gallery Bergelli in Larkspur, CA Feb 10th. John was a favorite professor of mine at UC Berkeley. His talks always depart from the regular artist presentations. He obviously loathes the typical pompous cerebral discussions artists try to have to describe the nature of their process as somehow having way more meaning than any of us care about or probably real. John is a very successful artist who shares his creative process with vivid descriptions of how he gets to the end result, even sharing photos of his process.

John’s pieces have an obsessive compulsive nature in the level of detail in his surrealist style. He has a thick, pure paint application on photographs. I always wonder what is going on in John’s imagination to come up with the work. I’m always fascinated by John’s use of Catholic religion images and beautiful women..

See DeWitt Cheng’s review of John’s work in the link below.

http://dewittcheng.com/john-mcnamara-gallery-bergelli-larkspur-feb-1