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The Painterly World : Dennis McGeary

 

Achievements: Inspirational and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

The Melusine Award for Painting
  The Honolulu Academy of the Arts: Artists of Hawaii 50th Exhibition 2000. Exhibition purcahse
 "Levels of Life" acrylic and acrylic enamel on canvas, 66 inches by 72 inches.

The Jean Charlot Foundation Award of Excellence for Painting 
  The Honolulu Academy of the Arts Artists of Hawaii Exhibition 1995. Exhibition Purchase plus a $500.00 Award
 "Technical Deluge" Acrylic and acrylic enamel on canvas.

The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Acquisition Award Collection 1995
  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

The Honolulu Academy of the Arts Collection: Purchase 2000
  "Levels of Life" acrylic and acrylic enamel on canvas, 66 inches by 72 inches. Purchase for the museum's permanent collection plus a $1000.00 award

First Place,  Two dimensional: "New Directions Exhibition" 2000
  "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 (Honolulu Haale) Aloha Festivals Art Exhibit. In conjunction with the annual Aloha week festivities
The Queen Liliuokalni Trust Collection: McGeary oil painting created in 1988: LILIUOKALANI CHURCH, HALEIWA, HAWAII .
(Queen Lili‘uokalani1838 - 1917) was the last monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She reigned from 1891 to 1893. On December 2, 1909, Queen Lili‘uokalani executed a Deed of Trust, which established the legal and financial foundation of an institution dedicated to the welfare of orphan children. She amended her Deed of Trust in 1911 to include destitute children. It states, “all the property of the Trust Estate, both principal and income…shall be used by the Trustees for the benefit of orphan and other destitute children in the Hawaiian Islands, the preference given to Hawaiian children of pure or part-aboriginal blood.”

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, January 2010. The painting was created over a span of three day's (9/12-13-14 2001)

Selected Exhibitions: Abstract Paintings
Artists of Hawaii Exhibition - Academy of Arts. Juror: Ned Rifkin, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Wash, D.C.
The Sacred Art Festival Exhibition, Box Heart Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Majority Rules, a two-part exhibition Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
Centering: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Sacred Art , Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California.
The Art Project; Online Exhibit. New York, New York. 2001-10. National and international Artists. 
Reverence: Existence Within the Spiritual and Earthly World. Gallery on the Pali. Honolulu, Hawaii
 
Education
Darby/Colwyn High School , Pennsylvania
US Navy / MMS School, San Diego, California
Olympic College, Bremerton, Washington
Gloucester College, New Jersey
Leeward College, Pearl City, Hawaii
Associate degree in Arts / Liberal Arts in Fine Arts
Associate degree in Science in Graphic Arts
University of Hawaii Alumni
 
Membership
The Association of Hawaii Artists
Handcrafters and Artisians Alliance
Haleiwa Arts Festival