Hawaii Artist Dennis Visionary abstract paintings

An Inspirational Vision of Life

Dennis McGeary

Achievements: Inspirational and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
First Place Painting in the National Veterans Creative Art Competition, Hawaii. "Ships of Contrast" 30" x 40" acrylic and acrylic enamel on canvas

The Melusine Award for Painting. The Honolulu Museum of Art: Artists of Hawaii 50th Exhibition 2000.
"Levels of Life" acrylic and acrylic enamel on canvas, 66" by 72" inches. Purchased /purchased for museum collection.

The Jean Charlot Foundation Award of Excellence for Painting The Honolulu Academy of the Arts Artists of Hawaii Exhibition 1995. Exhibition Purchase by Grosseto Collection.
"Technical Deluge" 48" x 62" acrylic and acrylic enamel on canvas

First Place, Two dimensional: "New Directions Exhibition" "Land of Plenty" acrylic on canvas. Pauahi Tower Mezzanine Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii. Exhibition Purchase plus gift award Juror; Duane Preble-Educator, artist and author of Art Forms

Certificate of Appreciation: The City and County of Honolulu, City Hall (Mayors Office Honolulu Hale) Aloha Festivals Art Exhibit. In conjunction with the annual Aloha week festivities. "Origin" 57" x 63" acrylic on canvas. Also accepted for the Contemporary Expressions of Sacred Art , Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California.
National 9/11 Memorial Museum, New York, NY

"Heart of America" Painting by D.McGeary was accepted in the National 9/11 Memorial Museum Slide Registry. The painting was created over a span of three day's (9/12-13-14 2001)
Education

High School, Pennsylvania / US Navy / MMS School, San Diego, California / Olympic College, Washington /Gloucester College, New Jersey / Leeward College, Hawaii
Associate degree in Arts / Liberal Arts in Fine Arts
Associate degree in Science in Graphic Arts
University of Hawaii Alumni

The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Acquisition Award Collection. The Association of Hawaii Artist. AMFAC Exhibition Room. "My Brother's Passing" acrylic and acrylic enamel on wood. HSFCA exhibition purchase for Art in Public Places Hawaii
First Place, Two dimensional: "New Directions Exhibition" "Land of Plenty" acrylic on canvas. Pauahi Tower Mezzanine Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii. Exhibition Purchase plus gift award Juror; Duane Preble-Educator, artist and author of Art Forms

"Heart of America" Painting by D.McGeary was accepted in the National 9/11 Memorial Museum Slide Registry. The painting was created over a span of three day's (9/12-13-14 2001)
Education

EXHIBITION LIST Partial

July 2004
Sixth Annual Hale'iwa Arts Festival Summer Event.
During this event, I display a large collection of landscape paintings and prints. Participating artists from many cultural backgrounds perform and display their varied artistic styles and media: music, dance, fabric art, storytelling, photography, ceramics, painting, sculpture, glass, jewelry, and more.
Location: Haleiwa Beach Park, North Shore Oahu, Hawaii.
May 15 - June 12, 2004
The Contemporary Art Exhibit
Resurrection oil painting by D. McGeary
The Association of Hawaii Artist Exhibit.
Location: Pauahi Mezzanine Gallery{second floor}1001 Bishop Street, Honolulu
EXHIBITION LIST from 2001 to 2003
February 3-21, 2003
Simultaneous Contrasts
Selected group exhibition of thirteen established Hawaii artists.
Four oil paintings exhibited from the " The Change of Seasons" Series
Eminence, Ethereal, Continuum, Portrait of Nature, plus Inspitation.
Organized and curated by Carol D'Angelo and Dexter Doi.
Honolulu Hale, City Hall, corner of King St. and Punchbowl. Honolulu.

Dec 4, 2002 - Jan 3, 2003
REVERENCE: Existence Within the Spiritual and Earthly World. Gallery on the Pali.
Solo Exhibition. Collection of ten works on canvas by Dennis McGeary.
Location: First Unitarian Church, 2500 Pali Highway, Honolulu, Hawaii.
November 2 - 30, 2002
Association of Hawaii Artists Members Exhibit
The Association of Hawaii Artist Member Exhibit. Two large abstract paintings "Draw of Man" and "Creation-Construction,"
Location: Pauahi Mezzanine Gallery{second floor}1001 Bishop Street, Honolulu
Aug 5- 17 2002
Association of Hawaii Artist: Aloha Festivals 2002 " Ka Uhane o Ka Loea
Members Exhibit. Honolulu Hale, The Spirit of the Master Theme: Aloha Festivals 2002 "Ka Uhane o ka Loea"- The Spirit of the Master.
"Ka Uhane o ka Loea" = gratefully acknowledges Hawaii's masters.The theme showcases island artist's and the importance of their work in preserving Hawaii's cultural heritage. Creation of an Island 2.

Location: Honolulu Hale, City Hall, King St.and Punchbowl. St. Honolulu.
June 27th- August 4, 2002
Honolulu Academy of the Art's: Artist of Hawai'i 2002
Juror: Ned Rifkin, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
From 418 artists who submitted 997 works, he selected 47 artists and 71 of their works to be exhibited.Artists of Hawaii is one of the longest continuously running state-wide, all media exhibition in the country. My paintings Conversion and Story of Island were on display.
Location: Beretania Street. Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
July 9 - 23, 2002
The Sacred Art Festival Exhibition, Box Heart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
A juried exhibit of paintings Road to Eternity and Choose your Way by Dennis McGeary along with other national and international.sacred artists are represented. The Sacred Art Festival is an Annual Event in the Bloomfield, Pennsylvania Community. The arts enable contact with The Sacred on an intimate level. By creating, The Sacred is manifested by the hands and a new life is brought into existence.
Location: Box Heart Gallery, 4673 Liberty Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa
July 20 & 21, 2002
Fifth Annual Hale'iwa Arts Festival Summer Event.
Location: Haleiwa Beach park, North Shore Oahu, Hawaii.
June 27- July 3, 2002
Majority Rules, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Majority Rules was a a two-part exhibition at Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland. that offers an innovative curatorial strategy: you, the audience, decide what gets shown in the gallery. This first exhibition features a slide show of 357 art works by artists from over 26 countries, gathered through an open call for submissions. My painting : Going Down, slide carousel 2 number 83.
Location: FreeGallery, Glasgow, Scotland
May 10-16 and May 19-26, 2002
Centering: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Sacred Art, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art
A special art exhibition in conjunction with a Sacred Art Symposium developed to celebrate the new Labyrinth on the grounds of the LBC, featuring works by contemporary artists whose life work and passion is in the creation of sacred art, including labyrinths, mandalas, sacred geometry, art as meditation and other modern forms of art as spiritual practice.
Exhibited "Inspiration" acrylic painting on canvas.
McGeary painting "Origin" was also accepted for this exhibition.
Location Luther Burbank Center for the Arts 50 Mark West Springs Road Santa Rosa, CA
April 27- May 11, 2002
Association of Hawaii Artists Spring Exhibition: Reaching Out
Paintings Tempest and Road to Eternity displayed.
Location: Honolulu Hale 530 King Street, Honolulu {Corner of King and Punchbowl}

Feb 1-April, 30, 2002
Dennis McGeary: Textured Paintings, Paisano's
A collection of eight mixed-medium work's on canvas
Location: Paisano's Restaurant. Manoa Marketplace, 2752 Woodlawn Dr. Honolulu, Hawaii
August 2001- January, 2002
Ruth's Chris Restaurant -Expressions in Art
Variety of landscape paintings of Hawaii
Ride to Haleiwa, Mixed Medium painting. Group Exhibition,
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Oct 20, 2001-Jan, 2002
Dennis McGeary: Textured Paintings, Hon Blue
A collection of eight mixed-medium work's on canvas
Location: 501 Sumner Street, Honolulu, Hawaii
January 2002 Jan. 2003
Alana Waikiki Hotel Gallery
Variety of paintings and style Expressions in Art
Volcano Moon Mixed Medium painting.
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Sept 2001-2003
The Art Project; New York, New York.
Online Exhibit. The "Art Project" intention is to function as a dialogue for those who wish to communicate through images. Artists Nationally and internationally have contributed their art for this online exhibit concerning the event's of September 11, 2001. The Art Project.net is created by an artist residing in New York, New York. "Heart of America"and statement by Dennis McGeary.
Aug 11- Oct 20, 2001
Visionary World of Symbolism and Abstraction, Hon Blue
A collection of six large monochromatic acrylic paintings on canvas.
Location: 501 Sumner Street, Honolulu, Hawaii
Aug. 16, 2001
Aloha Festival Art Exhibit - 55th Aloha Festivals Celebration
In cooperation with the Association of Hawai‘i Artists
"Origin," "Contemplation" and "The Story of Island" Group exhibition.
Location: Honolulu Hale 530 King Street, Honolulu {Corner of King and Punchbowl}

dennis mcGeary

Home 1 2 3 4 5 Landscapes Sculptures Artist Buy

"Voyager" oil, canvas 14" x 8"

"Storm at Sea" oil, canvas 20" x 16", 1986

"Wave of Inspiration" oil, canvas 48" x 24"

"Creation of an Island" oil, canvas 48" x 30"

"Dad / Family Portrait" oil, canvas 20" x 16"

To all who are passionately dedicated to the search for new “epiphanies” of beauty so that through their creative work as artists they may offer these as gifts to the world.

""Good, Evil and Modern Man" oil, canvas 20" x 20"

"Cubed Wave" acrylic, canvas 36" x 24"

"Signals" acrylic, canvas 48" x 48"

"The Tree of Life" acrylic, canvas 24" x 36"

"Hawaii" acrylic, canvas 12" x 20"

acrylic, canvas 36" x 48

"City" acrylic, canvas 36" x 60"

"My Brother's Passing" acrylic, wood 16" x 14"

Vierra Collection, Island of Hawaii

Malinowski Collection, Pennsylvania

C.C. Collection, Pennsylvania

Captis Collection, Pennsylvania

"Tempest" oil, canvas 20" x 16" .1986

Private Collection, Oahu, Hawaii

Lobrillo Collection, Hawaii

Private Collection, Nevada

Masunaga Collection, Hawaii

Ayers Collection, Maryland

Hawaii State Art Collection

"The City" acrylic, canvas 40" x 70"

Altaman Collection, Hawaii

Private Collection, Maryland

"Runner" acrylic, canvas 24" x 24"

"Summary" acrylic, canvas 60" x 40"

Altaman Collection, Hawaii

"Day of Deluge" oil, canvas 48" x 30"

Gallery - Collection 4

1985 - 1995 Development of Technique and Style

"Island Moon"

A large influence on my work has been the great visionary painter Albert Pinkam Ryder. On canvas he created romantic themes like the Flying Dutchman, Jonah, Seigfried and the Rhine Maidens plus numerous depictions of a single boat at sea with a glowing moon behind dark clouds.

Pope John Paul II

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

Mark Rothko

“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.”

Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Geometric shape and the symbolic meaning. Point-up triangles can represent ascension toward the spiritual world, while the point-down triangle can represent a descent into the physical world.

"As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward." Vincent van Gogh

Early Work

Early drawings and studies > >

I can see his (Ryder) influence in some of your work - the sense of motion, the way he plays with light and darkness, but mostly in your dreamy allegorical paintings about your dad. L. L. Culbertson