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In recent years, Ron LeMay has shifted his focus toward gallery work, expanding his visual language beyond skin and into large-scale, experimental formats. His art often explores themes of resilience, the passage of time, and the enduring power of human expression.
Photo Gallery
Steampunk Fish
"Steampunk Fish" 24" x 51" Metal
This striking painting is a vivid underwater fantasy scene created on a three-dimensional, curved metal surface — a reclaimed Corvair Door. The colors pop under lighting, giving it a dynamic and almost surreal quality.
Fantasy Fish with a House (Bottom):
Perhaps the most surreal element, the bottom of the composition features a yellow fish with a rustic wooden house structure built onto its body. The house includes windows, a chimney, and vertical pipes or branches, giving it the whimsical look of a deep-sea steampunk dwelling.
Wide Eyed Silence
'Wide Eyed Silence" 48" x 60" Canvas
This powerful painting by artist Ron LeMay is a striking, emotional portrait rendered in a raw, expressive style. The composition focuses tightly on a woman's face, zoomed in from the nose up to the forehead, cutting off the top of the head and much of the chin. This close-up format pulls the viewer into the subject's intense, almost haunting gaze.
- Eyes: The woman's eyes dominate the piece, large and vivid with luminous yellow-green irises and exaggerated dark pupils. They are filled with emotion—sorrow, alertness, and perhaps confrontation. The white highlights in the pupils give the impression of moisture or light reflection, adding life and tension.
- Texture and Brushwork: LeMay uses bold textures, with thick layers of paint and frenetic drips, splatters, and scratches across the canvas. This chaotic surface treatment conveys a sense of internal struggle or psychological complexity.
- Color Palette: Earthy ochres, rusty oranges, and greens blend with dramatic blacks and vivid reds, especially in the lips. The skin tone is rendered with a marbled quality—layered, blotchy, and textured, almost suggesting decay or weathered resilience.
- Hair and Background: The hair is an explosion of black with tangled white lines and chaotic drips that blend into the background. The background itself is abstract and dark, but with splashes of color—teal, red, and green—suggesting emotional turbulence or an unseen environment.
- Expression: Her lips are full and painted a bright, intense red—slightly pursed and closed tightly, suggesting withheld emotion or tension. The facial expression overall suggests introspection, concern, or emotional weight.
Whispers Behind Her Lips
"Whispers Behind Her Lips" 18" x 36" Canvas
This portrait feels like a meditation on vulnerability, silence, and inner chaos. The woman’s face is still and centered, yet surrounded and partially consumed by explosive abstract textures. The contrast between her closed eyes and the wildly expressive background suggests an emotional storm just beneath the surface—beauty and pain coexisting.
This piece is quintessentially Ron LeMay—fierce, unapologetically textured, and layered with feeling. It merges street-art aesthetics with raw portraiture, delivering a compelling visual narrative that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant.
It’s not just a painting—it’s a state of mind captured on canvas.
Marilyn and Silent Vision
"Marilyn" 16" x 20" Canvas
Ron LeMay, 2025
A bold fusion of realism and abstraction, this portrait reimagines Marilyn Monroe with explosive color and texture. Layers of turquoise, yellow, and green merge with vivid splatters of blue, pink, and white, while her iconic red lips command attention. LeMay’s energetic brushwork and street-art influence breathe modern vitality into a timeless icon.
"Silent Vision" 20" x 20" Canvas
Ron LeMay 2025
Mixed media portrait capturing the raw intensity of human emotion through layered texture and vivid color. The subject’s piercing green eyes, framed by red accents, confront the viewer with unflinching presence, while earthy tones and crosshatched marks evoke both vulnerability and resilience. A striking fusion of realism and abstract texture, this work invites prolonged contemplation.
Em
"Em" 24" x 36" Canvas
A vivid, angled portrait capturing the magnetic pull of a golden gaze. Layers of textured pigment and bold, gestural strokes fuse realism with raw expression, while dark streaks and crimson lips evoke a sense of beauty touched by turbulence. Both intimate and dramatic, the work invites the viewer into a moment suspended between vulnerability and defiance. Ron LeMay 2025
Jimi Hendrix and Butterfly Weather
"Jimi Hendrix" 30" x 48" Canvas
Ron LeMay's interpretive portrayal of Jimi Hendrix to be a captivating fusion of abstraction and reverence. The canvas bursts with a daring palette—dominated by a striking green visage with luminous eyes and a bold mouth—set against a tumultuous mane of yellows, browns, and greens, punctuated by white and orange flecks. This textured coiffure seems to ripple with the electric energy of Hendrix's musical legacy. The background, a chaotic swirl of earthy browns, oranges, and blues, employs dynamic brushstrokes and splatters to conjure a cosmic stage, suggesting the transcendent nature of his artistry.
"Butterfly Weather" 50" x 32" Canvas
This Ron LeMay painting, created on a curved metal Corvair hood, blends surrealism and emotional depth in a striking mixed-media style.
The central figure is a woman’s profile, eyes gently closed, her face partially veiled with intricate lace- and floral-like patterns that merge into her skin. Her expression is serene yet introspective, evoking a sense of quiet contemplation. The bold, vivid red of her lips echoes the brilliant crimson of the umbrella she holds, which arcs protectively over her face.
The background is alive with motion — cascading vertical streaks of teal and white evoke rain, while splashes of vivid color scatter across the surface. Dozens of butterflies, rendered in a mosaic of reds, yellows, and oranges, appear to dance through the rain, bringing a sense of hope and transformation to the otherwise moody scene.
Persistent
"Persistent" 36" x 48" Canvas
Ron LeMay’s 48" x 60" canvas captures a powerful female gaze with piercing yellow-green eyes and vivid crimson lips. Layers of drips, crackle textures, and earthy tones merge realism with abstraction, giving the portrait a weathered, elemental presence. Deep shadows and flowing dark hair frame her face, evoking strength, resilience, and mystery. Ron LeMay’s work fuses raw emotion with rich surface detail, creating a striking balance between beauty and the passage of time.
Guitar Jimi
"Guitar Jimi" 30" x 40" Canvas
Ron LeMay’s 30" x 40" canvas captures a powerful gaze with piercing yellow-green eyes and vivid crimson lips. Layers of drips, crackle textures, and earthy tones merge realism with abstraction, giving the Jimi Hendrix portrait a weathered, elemental presence. Deep shadows and flowing dark hair frame her face, evoking strength, resilience, and mystery. Ron LeMay’s work fuses raw emotion with rich surface detail, creating a striking balance between beauty and the passage of time.
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