Notable Paintings
Origin
acrylic, canvas, 67 x 53, Koch Collection Iowa
Certificate of Appreciation: The City and County of Honolulu, City Hall (Mayors Office Honolulu Hale) Aloha Festivals Art Exhibit.
Selected for main Center Piece artwork for the Contemporary Expressions of Sacred Art, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California.
Spiritual Essence
oil, panel, 30" x 30"
The Sacred & Liturgical Visual Arts Exhibition Award for Painting: Liturgical and Sacred Art Exhibition, M.G. Nelson Family Gallery, Springfield, Illinois. $300 award.
I strive to create art that will benefit people in an enlightening way.
Jonah
acrylic, canvas, 47" x 42"
Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels - Tullian Tchividjian
Hawaiian artist Dennis McGeary depicts Jonah's condition well in 2001 abstract painting entirely in black, white and gray. A mass of contoured lines takes up nearly all the painting, suggesting simultaneously both the interior massiveness of a whale-like creature and the swirling waves of the storm. Almost hidden in the center, a few lines are bent up, -saillike- the tiny ship in a storm. Along the uprising lines on a lower side we see a man falling, his hands raised uselessly as he descends where he does not wish to go--Jonah cast overboard. Finally, set off in an undersized black square in the opposite corner, is the small, hunkered form of the swallowed prophet, brooding over what has happened to him. How he must wonder at God's design in all this!
Conversion
acrylic, (2) canvas 48" x 48"
Artists of Hawaii Exhibit. Honolulu Museum of Art
Juror: Ned Rifin, Director of the Hirshorn (Smithsonian Museum), Wahington, D.C
Paintings by Dennis McGeary tease the imagination with their Biblical deluge of waves and land masses turning in on themselves like something from a dream.
Honolulu Advertiser article: An Art Cathedral
Land of Plenty
acrylic, canvas, 48" x 72"
First Place, Painting: New Directions, AHA, Bishop Square Exhibition Level, Mezzanine Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii. Juror; Duane Preble-Educator and author of Art Forums.
Ships of Contrast
acrylic, canvas, 30" x 40"
First Place Painting Award The National Veterans Creative Art Competition, Hawaii.
J.J.M Collection, Hawaii
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.
Story of Island (detail)
acrylic, canvas, 28" x 62"
Artists of Hawaii Exhibit 2002. Juror: Ned Rifin, Director of the Hirshorn (Smithsonian Museum), Wahington, D.C
Ch 2 News: Interview with Jennifer Seville, Curator of Western Art, Honolulu Museum of Art Concerning The Story of Island
Khon: Let's start with this gentleman named Dennis McGeary.
Seville: We have two paintings by Dennis and his work is notable because he's like Anselm Adams, He's looking at nature, but at a truly cosmic level, taking nature at it's most elemental forces, with wind, with water, as you look at these paintings there's a sense of a vortex, a deluge of an avalanche of just nature swirling around.It's a very painstaking technique as he moves his brush with his pigment to create the sense of movement of the air, the water, whatever he is dealing with, to create this sense of the clash, the meeting, thee flow of nature.
Voyager
oil, canvas, 24" x 36"
Artists of Hawaii Exhibition, Honolulu Museum of Art. Juror: Laura Hoptman, senior curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. May 14 - August 16, 2009
Exhibition purchase, Private Collection, Florida.
Printed and circulated in American Savings Bank Hawaii calender.
Levels of Life
acrylic, canvas, 66" by 72"
Levels of Life by dennis mcGeary won the Melusine Award for Painting, which was named after a medieval figure in France who built things of beauty in the night. The award was established in memory of the late painter and arts patron Gerry Clark.
Artists of Hawaii 50th Exhibition. Honolulu Museum of Art Collection purchase plus $1000 stipend award.
My Brothers Passing
acyrlic, acrylic enamel, wood
The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Acquisition Award Collection. HSFCA exhibition purchase for Art in Public Places Hawaii
Within my paintings there is a sense of turbulence and rhythm.
Heart of America
acrylic, canvas, 36" x 24"
Accepted in the National 9/11 Memorial Museum Slide Registry, New York, NY.
Silent Turbulence / Rotary
Painting acrylic enamel, (2) canvas, 48" x 72"
Mixed Media Sculpture: metal, wheel cylinders, bowling ball, tennis balls, cement and enamel paint.
First Solo Exhibition / Large Scale Artworks / D. McGeary
Leeward College Foyer Gallery, Pearl City, Hawaii