John McNamara
Education
1977 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, M.F.A. Painting
1971 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, B.F.A. Painting
Awards:
1985 Fellow, The MacDowell Colony
1982 Awards in the Visual Arts Fellowship 2(funded by Equitable Life and the Rockefeller
Foundation)
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem NC
1981 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1980, 1983, 1986,1989 Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Grant
One Person Exhibitions:
2019 Worth Ryder Gallery, University of C.A., Berkeley, “Visual Dictionary” 3/20 – 4/11
2018 Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA “Time Machines”
2017 University Art Gallery, California State University at Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
2013 The Painting Center, NY, NY
2012 Gallery Bergelli, Larkspur, CA
2008 Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley,
CA – “Ten Moments from the Twentieth Century” 2/20 – 5/15 - 2008
2002 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 / 02
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1999 Addison Street Windows, Public Art Venue, Berkeley, CA
1995 Miller / Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
Honolulu Academy of Fine Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
1986 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
Mary Wright Gallery, Dallas, TX
1984 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1982 The Exhibition Space at 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
Cutler / Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1981 Cutler / Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1980 Cutler / Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1971 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1969 Hundred Souls Gallery, Plymouth, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2019 – “The Fl3tch3r Show” Reece Museum, Johnson, Tenn. 9/30 – 12/13, 2019
2018/19 “Highlights from the Permanent Collection: John McNamara’s “Murk” 10/19/18 – 3/10/19
2017 “Happy Paintings to Bring Mirth” Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016 “Polychrome Stew” Work by John McNamara and Bob Stang, Compound Gallery, Oakland CA
2015 “Livin’ Large: Works from The 1980’s” Tucson Museum of Art, 4/24 – 7/12
2014 “Unique Surfaces, A Collage” Gary Francis Gallery, Alameda,
2013 “Urban Grit” Gary Francis Gallery,
2013 /14 “In Our Hands” Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb, Croatia
2013 “Open Loop: The Life of an Art Object Before, During, and After” Worth Ryder Gallery,
University of CA., Berkeley
2012 “Natural/Constructed” The Painting Center, NY, NY
2010 Small Works Show The Painting Center, NY, NY
2008 / 09 - "Decades of Abstraction:" Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
1994 - 2013 “U.C.B.” Faculty Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of CA, Berkeley
2004 / 05
“New Faces: New Vision” Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
2002 / 03
“Painting in Boston: 1950 – 2000” DeCordova Museum / Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2002 “Selections from the Permanent Collection” Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
2000 / 01
“Abstract Expressionism – Figural Expressionism” Common Ground, DeCordova
Museum / Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2000 “Visual Memories: Selected Paintings and Drawings” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis
University, Waltham, MA
1996 “A Gift of Vision – William A. and Susan Small Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
“James Breslin Memorial Exhibition” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1995 “Current Acquisitions” Smith College of Art, North Hampton, MA
1994 “Treasures in Our Midst” Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
“New Directions: Contemporary Art from the Currier” Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
1993 “Works in Progress” Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA
“Healing Arts” Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
871 Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Crossing the Line: Abstraction / Figuration” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 “In the Spirit of Landscape” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
“Big Ideas” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1990 “Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
“Invitational Small Painting Exhibition” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 / 90
“New England Impressions: The Art of Printmaking” Fitchburg Museum of Art,
Fitchburg, MA Travels to: Galerie Kunst Im Turm, West Germany
“Resonant Abstraction” Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1988 “American Painters and Sculptors” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1987 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1986 “Boston Collects” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“25th Anniversary Exhibition” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
“Expressionism in Boston” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1985 “Contemporary Art of the Commonwealth” Offices of Congressman Edward J.
Markey, Washington, DC
1984 / 83 “Brockton Museum Triennial Exhibit” Brockton Museum, Brockton, MA
“Awards in the Visual Arts Exhibition Tour” Mint Museum, Charlotte, SC
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL DeCordova Museum, Boston, MA
1984 “Selections from the A.V.A. 2 Show” Equitable Life Insurance Society Gallery,
New York, NY
1983 “Boston Now” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1982 “New England Painters” Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
1981 “Epic Abstractionists” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
“Boston Now” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1980 “Brockton Museum Triennial Exhibit” Brockton, MA
1978 “Fresh Images” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1977 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
New York University, New York, NY
1970 “Upcoming Young American Artists” The Arts and Science Center, Nashua, NH
“Salon 70” Warde-Nasse Gallrey, Boston, MA
Selected References:
Margaret Regan “Livin Large: Paintings from the Power Charged 80”s, The Tucson Weekly, May 28, 2015,
Alice Losk “The Artsicle Blog” June 26, 2012 NY,NY
http://www.artsicle.com/blog/serenity-despite-the-heat-at-natural constructed-spaces-i
Allara, Pamela “Artists of the Eighties” Dialogue, Feb. 1989, No. 84
“The Scope of Boston Art is Much Broader Than it Would Appear”
Art News, Nov. 1981, 80,9: 126-131
Baker, Kenneth “Abstracting Reality” The Boston Phoenix, March 23, 1982
“Local Color at the I.C.A.” The Boston Phoenix, May 26, 1981
“Seeing is Believing: John McNamara’s Maximum Spaces”
The Boston Phoenix, April 21, 1981
Banks, Gail “Six Boston Artists Who are about to Make it Big” Boston Magazine,
May, 1983
Bauld, Harold “The Collectors” Boston Magazine, Sept. 1987
Belz, Carl “John McNamara” Arts Magazine, Nov., 1982 57, 3:13
“Painting in Boston” pgs. 184, 103, 217, 231
Bonetti, David “The Boston Phoenix May 5, 1989
“John McNamara” Art News, Feb. 1988
“Boston” Art News, Summer 1988
The Boston Phoenix Dec. 24, 1987
“An Artist Capable of Surprise” Boston Musica Viva News, Sept.1985
Chawky Frenn “100 Boston Painters” Schifferbooks.com 2012
Cheng, DeWitt “Ten Moments in the Twentieth Century” Paintings by John McNamara
East Bay Express, Feb. 20, 2008
Collier’s Magazine February 2012
Collier’s Magazine April 2012
Couture, Michael “Two New Exhibits to open at Fuller” Brockton Enterprise, Dec. 9, 1989
Croke, Katie ‘Folly” Interview with John McNamara July 2006
DeWitt Cheng Catalogue Essay for 2017 Twenty-Year Survey Show, University Art Gallery, California State
University, Stanislaus
Henry, Gerrit “John McNamara” Art in America, Summer 1984
Jeppson, Gabriella “John McNamara and Roger Kizik” Art New England, Jan. 1980 1,2: 6
Joselit, David “Epic Abstractionists: John McNamara and Rick Harlow”
Art New England, Dec. 1981
Marquis Publications “Who’s Who in American Art, 1984 – 2010
McClaran, Stephen "John McNamara: Specchio e Figura" HAA Docents' Newsletter, May
2009
McFadden, Sara “Report from Boston” Art in America, May 1983
McGill, Douglass New York Times, May 29, 1985
Mitchell, Charles “Art Space” Dallas Fort Worth Letter, Summer 1985
Morse, Marcia “Two Artist’s Redefine the Word “Abstraction”
Honolulu Star Bulletin, August, 9, 1987
Nemser, Rebbeca Art Listings, Galleries, The Boston Phoenix, Section 3, July 20, 1990
Narrett, Eugene “John McNamara” Art New England, Jan. 1991
“John McNamara” Art New England, Dec. 1990
“Art and Culture” Art New Engaland Oct. 1989
“John McNamara, Stavaridis Gallery” New Art Examiner, Jan. 1988
Parks, Addison Art Deal, May, 1995
Poirrier, Maurice “John McNamara” Art News, Sept. 1986
Saulnier, Bonnie “John McNamara’s Cathedrals” New Boston Review, June/July 1979
Stapen, Nancy “A Landscape Artist Moves to Cyberspace – John McNamara”
Boston Globe, May 4, 1995
“John McNamara” Art News, Nov. 1990
“From Epic to Expression” Boston Sunday Globe, Sept. 30, 1990
“Passion Power, Expressive Abstraction Show at Fuller”
The Boston Herald, Jan. 5 1990
“Art in Boston: An Overview” Art News, Summer 1987
“John McNamara” Art New England, May 1981
Swan, Christopher Christian Science Monitor, June 23, 1983
Taylor, Robert Boston Globe, Jan 10, 1988
“The Best Shows of 1981” Boston Sunday Globe, Dec. 27, 1981
“Heroic Works: Disaster and Nature in Three Shows”
Boston Globe, April 5, 1981
“Big is Beautiful” Boston Globe, Jan. 15, 1981
“Images at Brandeis: Vital, Engrossing” Boston Sunday Globe,
Nov. 26, 1978
Temin, Christine “Thoughtful Amalgam of Several Styles” Boston Globe, Dec. 21, 1989
“Perspectives, John McNamara” Boston Globe, May 4, 1989
“McNamara Cuts Loose in New York” Boston Globe, March 15, 1984
“Lives in the Arts” Boston Globe, Jan. 4, 1984
“Best Shows of 1981” Boston Globe, Dec. 26, 1981
“McNamara’s Shimmering Bands” Boston Globe, March 31, 198
Weinreb, Brea Art Practice Faculty Show, Caliber Magazine, November 2012
Wolff, Theodore “Young Talent on the Trail of Greatness” The Christian Science
Monitor, April 14, 1986
“New York Artists Speak to Each Other- On Canvas” The Christian
Science Monitor, April 23, 1984
“The Home Forum” The Christian Science Monitor, April 7, 1983
“Where have all the Painterly Painters Gone?” The Christian
Science Monitor, Dec. 21, 1982
Public Collections:
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA
California State University at Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
Clark University, Worcester, MA
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Reece Museum, East Tennessee University State University, Fl3tch3r Collection
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Hale and Dore, Boston, MA
Honolulu Museum of Fine Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
J.B. Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY
Joan Sonnabend Collection
List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Smith College of Art Museum, North Hampton, MA
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Academic Bio -
1975 - 1993 - Visiting Instructor/Professor - Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Boston, MA
1982-83 - 1988-1992 - Visiting Professor – Boston Museum of Fine Arts School
1985/86 – Montserrat College of Art, Boston, MA
1992 - 1993 - Visiting Instructor - San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco, CA
1993 – 2018 - Continuing Lecturer, Art Practice Dept., University of California, Berkeley
Retired after the Spring Semester in 2018, after teaching for twenty-five years in the Art Practice Dept.,
University of CA, Berkeley
Education
1977 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, M.F.A. Painting
1971 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, B.F.A. Painting
Awards:
1985 Fellow, The MacDowell Colony
1982 Awards in the Visual Arts Fellowship 2(funded by Equitable Life and the Rockefeller
Foundation)
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem NC
1981 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1980, 1983, 1986,1989 Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Grant
One Person Exhibitions:
2019 Worth Ryder Gallery, University of C.A., Berkeley, “Visual Dictionary” 3/20 – 4/11
2018 Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA “Time Machines”
2017 University Art Gallery, California State University at Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
2013 The Painting Center, NY, NY
2012 Gallery Bergelli, Larkspur, CA
2008 Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley,
CA – “Ten Moments from the Twentieth Century” 2/20 – 5/15 - 2008
2002 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 / 02
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1999 Addison Street Windows, Public Art Venue, Berkeley, CA
1995 Miller / Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
Honolulu Academy of Fine Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
1986 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
Mary Wright Gallery, Dallas, TX
1984 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1982 The Exhibition Space at 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
Cutler / Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1981 Cutler / Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1980 Cutler / Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1971 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1969 Hundred Souls Gallery, Plymouth, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2019 – “The Fl3tch3r Show” Reece Museum, Johnson, Tenn. 9/30 – 12/13, 2019
2018/19 “Highlights from the Permanent Collection: John McNamara’s “Murk” 10/19/18 – 3/10/19
2017 “Happy Paintings to Bring Mirth” Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016 “Polychrome Stew” Work by John McNamara and Bob Stang, Compound Gallery, Oakland CA
2015 “Livin’ Large: Works from The 1980’s” Tucson Museum of Art, 4/24 – 7/12
2014 “Unique Surfaces, A Collage” Gary Francis Gallery, Alameda,
2013 “Urban Grit” Gary Francis Gallery,
2013 /14 “In Our Hands” Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb, Croatia
2013 “Open Loop: The Life of an Art Object Before, During, and After” Worth Ryder Gallery,
University of CA., Berkeley
2012 “Natural/Constructed” The Painting Center, NY, NY
2010 Small Works Show The Painting Center, NY, NY
2008 / 09 - "Decades of Abstraction:" Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
1994 - 2013 “U.C.B.” Faculty Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of CA, Berkeley
2004 / 05
“New Faces: New Vision” Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
2002 / 03
“Painting in Boston: 1950 – 2000” DeCordova Museum / Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2002 “Selections from the Permanent Collection” Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
2000 / 01
“Abstract Expressionism – Figural Expressionism” Common Ground, DeCordova
Museum / Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2000 “Visual Memories: Selected Paintings and Drawings” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis
University, Waltham, MA
1996 “A Gift of Vision – William A. and Susan Small Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
“James Breslin Memorial Exhibition” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1995 “Current Acquisitions” Smith College of Art, North Hampton, MA
1994 “Treasures in Our Midst” Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
“New Directions: Contemporary Art from the Currier” Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
1993 “Works in Progress” Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA
“Healing Arts” Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
871 Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Crossing the Line: Abstraction / Figuration” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 “In the Spirit of Landscape” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
“Big Ideas” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1990 “Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
“Invitational Small Painting Exhibition” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 / 90
“New England Impressions: The Art of Printmaking” Fitchburg Museum of Art,
Fitchburg, MA Travels to: Galerie Kunst Im Turm, West Germany
“Resonant Abstraction” Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1988 “American Painters and Sculptors” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1987 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1986 “Boston Collects” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“25th Anniversary Exhibition” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
“Expressionism in Boston” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1985 “Contemporary Art of the Commonwealth” Offices of Congressman Edward J.
Markey, Washington, DC
1984 / 83 “Brockton Museum Triennial Exhibit” Brockton Museum, Brockton, MA
“Awards in the Visual Arts Exhibition Tour” Mint Museum, Charlotte, SC
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL DeCordova Museum, Boston, MA
1984 “Selections from the A.V.A. 2 Show” Equitable Life Insurance Society Gallery,
New York, NY
1983 “Boston Now” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1982 “New England Painters” Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
1981 “Epic Abstractionists” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
“Boston Now” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1980 “Brockton Museum Triennial Exhibit” Brockton, MA
1978 “Fresh Images” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1977 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
New York University, New York, NY
1970 “Upcoming Young American Artists” The Arts and Science Center, Nashua, NH
“Salon 70” Warde-Nasse Gallrey, Boston, MA
Selected References:
Margaret Regan “Livin Large: Paintings from the Power Charged 80”s, The Tucson Weekly, May 28, 2015,
Alice Losk “The Artsicle Blog” June 26, 2012 NY,NY
http://www.artsicle.com/blog/serenity-despite-the-heat-at-natural constructed-spaces-i
Allara, Pamela “Artists of the Eighties” Dialogue, Feb. 1989, No. 84
“The Scope of Boston Art is Much Broader Than it Would Appear”
Art News, Nov. 1981, 80,9: 126-131
Baker, Kenneth “Abstracting Reality” The Boston Phoenix, March 23, 1982
“Local Color at the I.C.A.” The Boston Phoenix, May 26, 1981
“Seeing is Believing: John McNamara’s Maximum Spaces”
The Boston Phoenix, April 21, 1981
Banks, Gail “Six Boston Artists Who are about to Make it Big” Boston Magazine,
May, 1983
Bauld, Harold “The Collectors” Boston Magazine, Sept. 1987
Belz, Carl “John McNamara” Arts Magazine, Nov., 1982 57, 3:13
“Painting in Boston” pgs. 184, 103, 217, 231
Bonetti, David “The Boston Phoenix May 5, 1989
“John McNamara” Art News, Feb. 1988
“Boston” Art News, Summer 1988
The Boston Phoenix Dec. 24, 1987
“An Artist Capable of Surprise” Boston Musica Viva News, Sept.1985
Chawky Frenn “100 Boston Painters” Schifferbooks.com 2012
Cheng, DeWitt “Ten Moments in the Twentieth Century” Paintings by John McNamara
East Bay Express, Feb. 20, 2008
Collier’s Magazine February 2012
Collier’s Magazine April 2012
Couture, Michael “Two New Exhibits to open at Fuller” Brockton Enterprise, Dec. 9, 1989
Croke, Katie ‘Folly” Interview with John McNamara July 2006
DeWitt Cheng Catalogue Essay for 2017 Twenty-Year Survey Show, University Art Gallery, California State
University, Stanislaus
Henry, Gerrit “John McNamara” Art in America, Summer 1984
Jeppson, Gabriella “John McNamara and Roger Kizik” Art New England, Jan. 1980 1,2: 6
Joselit, David “Epic Abstractionists: John McNamara and Rick Harlow”
Art New England, Dec. 1981
Marquis Publications “Who’s Who in American Art, 1984 – 2010
McClaran, Stephen "John McNamara: Specchio e Figura" HAA Docents' Newsletter, May
2009
McFadden, Sara “Report from Boston” Art in America, May 1983
McGill, Douglass New York Times, May 29, 1985
Mitchell, Charles “Art Space” Dallas Fort Worth Letter, Summer 1985
Morse, Marcia “Two Artist’s Redefine the Word “Abstraction”
Honolulu Star Bulletin, August, 9, 1987
Nemser, Rebbeca Art Listings, Galleries, The Boston Phoenix, Section 3, July 20, 1990
Narrett, Eugene “John McNamara” Art New England, Jan. 1991
“John McNamara” Art New England, Dec. 1990
“Art and Culture” Art New Engaland Oct. 1989
“John McNamara, Stavaridis Gallery” New Art Examiner, Jan. 1988
Parks, Addison Art Deal, May, 1995
Poirrier, Maurice “John McNamara” Art News, Sept. 1986
Saulnier, Bonnie “John McNamara’s Cathedrals” New Boston Review, June/July 1979
Stapen, Nancy “A Landscape Artist Moves to Cyberspace – John McNamara”
Boston Globe, May 4, 1995
“John McNamara” Art News, Nov. 1990
“From Epic to Expression” Boston Sunday Globe, Sept. 30, 1990
“Passion Power, Expressive Abstraction Show at Fuller”
The Boston Herald, Jan. 5 1990
“Art in Boston: An Overview” Art News, Summer 1987
“John McNamara” Art New England, May 1981
Swan, Christopher Christian Science Monitor, June 23, 1983
Taylor, Robert Boston Globe, Jan 10, 1988
“The Best Shows of 1981” Boston Sunday Globe, Dec. 27, 1981
“Heroic Works: Disaster and Nature in Three Shows”
Boston Globe, April 5, 1981
“Big is Beautiful” Boston Globe, Jan. 15, 1981
“Images at Brandeis: Vital, Engrossing” Boston Sunday Globe,
Nov. 26, 1978
Temin, Christine “Thoughtful Amalgam of Several Styles” Boston Globe, Dec. 21, 1989
“Perspectives, John McNamara” Boston Globe, May 4, 1989
“McNamara Cuts Loose in New York” Boston Globe, March 15, 1984
“Lives in the Arts” Boston Globe, Jan. 4, 1984
“Best Shows of 1981” Boston Globe, Dec. 26, 1981
“McNamara’s Shimmering Bands” Boston Globe, March 31, 198
Weinreb, Brea Art Practice Faculty Show, Caliber Magazine, November 2012
Wolff, Theodore “Young Talent on the Trail of Greatness” The Christian Science
Monitor, April 14, 1986
“New York Artists Speak to Each Other- On Canvas” The Christian
Science Monitor, April 23, 1984
“The Home Forum” The Christian Science Monitor, April 7, 1983
“Where have all the Painterly Painters Gone?” The Christian
Science Monitor, Dec. 21, 1982
Public Collections:
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA
California State University at Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
Clark University, Worcester, MA
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Reece Museum, East Tennessee University State University, Fl3tch3r Collection
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Hale and Dore, Boston, MA
Honolulu Museum of Fine Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
J.B. Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY
Joan Sonnabend Collection
List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Smith College of Art Museum, North Hampton, MA
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Academic Bio -
1975 - 1993 - Visiting Instructor/Professor - Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Boston, MA
1982-83 - 1988-1992 - Visiting Professor – Boston Museum of Fine Arts School
1985/86 – Montserrat College of Art, Boston, MA
1992 - 1993 - Visiting Instructor - San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco, CA
1993 – 2018 - Continuing Lecturer, Art Practice Dept., University of California, Berkeley
Retired after the Spring Semester in 2018, after teaching for twenty-five years in the Art Practice Dept.,
University of CA, Berkeley