Work samples

  • Mother and son
    Mother and son

    2020, 120mm Medium Format Film

  • Audrey
    Audrey

    2024, Digital Painting

  • Quarrel
    Quarrel

    2019, 120mm Medium Format Film

  • Oya
    Oya

    2024, Digital Painting

About Lemary

Lemary is a Baltimore based multidisciplinary artist. Creating visual work that is seeped in representation, referencing multicultural fashion to weave an image that is a vivid and seamless fusion of texture and color.

Digital Paintings

The pandemic really shifted how and which mediums I engage with, as I found myself more confined to my room digital painting became my most prominent medium.  

I approach the screen like a digital canvas, each stroke pixels of oil or acrylic without the drying process

  • Audrey
    Audrey
  • Slime Time Live
    Slime Time Live
  • Oya
    Oya
  • Portia
    Portia
  • Roxanne
    Roxanne
  • Tisha
    Tisha
  • Mesmer the Impaler
    Mesmer the Impaler
  • Becchi
    Becchi
  • Sir William Frogshire III
    Sir William Frogshire III
  • Burning Man
    Burning Man

Time and Death and God

A solo exhibit in April of 2024 at Happy Gallery in Chicago, IL

 

Time, death, and God, the 3 absolutes in the hearts and minds of many. Each calling for its own reverence. One leading to another, one the keeper of all. I wanted to explore what deserves our time, what the passage of time looks like. What death looks like, what role does death play amongst the living. How much of life is in our control, how much of our reality is true or certain. 

  • Happy Gallery
    Happy Gallery
  • Burning Man
    Burning Man
  • Time, Death, God
    Time, Death, God
  • Father Time
    Father Time
  • Bombastic Side Eye
    Bombastic Side Eye
  • Army of the living dead
    Army of the living dead
  • Bride
    Bride
  • Groom
    Groom
  • Return to the Erdtree
    Return to the Erdtree

Errands

Errands is a an expression of everyday charm. Beauty in the routine and usually mundane. This is also an act of resourcefulness, creation at any time, wherever you are. I used everyday locations as my studio, places you do errands at, sometimes seen as a chore. I’ve found through art and just living day to day that the existence of people of color, in this specific case creatives of color are often seen as unwanted or bothersome in public spaces. Errands is an example of belonging, existing. A screenshot into the film of the everyday. 

  • Fashioned Forms In Turbulence
    Fashioned Forms In Turbulence
  • Faith
    Faith
  • Faith
    Faith
  • Sonia + Diaspoura
    Sonia + Diaspoura
  • Sonia + Diaspoura
    Sonia + Diaspoura
  • Faith + Ser
    Faith + Ser
  • Sophia
    Sophia
  • Sophia
    Sophia
  • Ashley
    Ashley
  • Corey
    Corey

FKA Marley- Self Released

https://lemary.bandcamp.com/album/fka-marley

A degree in music from CCBC in 2014, 15 years of production work and over a decade of touring and performances can be summarized in this "greatest hits" or thus far project. 

This project marked the end of an era, sonically and in name. After removing basically all traces of older music I decided to put together this collection to archive my past before I move on to new music with a newfound voice

 

  • FKA Marley
    FKA Marley
  • 77
  • Mist featuring :3lon
  • 88

Artist Portraiture

One of my biggest driving forces as an artist is to be a resource to my peers through my craft. I want to be able to document their journey and process as well as provide essentials like headshots and press photos. 

 

All photos shot on 120mm film in Baltimore + New York

  • Audrey Gatewood
    Audrey Gatewood
  • Anna Divinigracia
    Anna Divinigracia
  • Amy Reid
    Amy Reid
  • Al Rogers Jr.
    Al Rogers Jr.
  • Beya Likhari
    Beya Likhari
  • DJ Bri Mafia
    DJ Bri Mafia
  • Mecca & Celeste O'Connor
    Mecca & Celeste O'Connor
  • Ghostie
    Ghostie
  • Corey Wash
    Corey Wash
  • Natalia Celine Arias
    Natalia Celine Arias

Blush + Brews; Creative Platform and Event Series- Founder

Blush + Brews began in 2016 as a new accessible and inclusive creative hub. The monthly concert series was free and held together by all of the countless vendors, hosts, performers, artists and venue staff and security. Over 70 artists have performed at over 30 shows across Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia and DC. Blush + Brews released a zine featuring international and local artists, and ended its 2+ year run with a mix series spanning 40 iterations broadcasting via n10as radio out of Montreal.

My Goal was for people to feel welcome and included, no artist too small to perform, no one too othered to attend or contribute. 

And who doesn't like to wear pink and dance with their friends =)

Inspired by the complexity of femme

Relating strength + empathy

Practicing love + tenderness 

Empowering one another

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Dance All Night

Enjoy Yourself

Be Yourself

Embrace Your Palette

Apply The Blush

Bollymore; Creative Platform and Event Series- Founder

https://bollymore.tumblr.com/

Bollymore started in 2017 Inspired by the sounds + stories of the subcontinent. Baltimore’s space of fellowship and exchange amongst the South Asian diaspora, celebrating the arts and collaborating across cultures.

Bollymore is the sort of event that you sit around with fellow artists, friends, or family at dinner and say " I wish there was an event like this" or "I wish I could DJ all of my favorite Bollymore songs somewhere"

This is basically how it came to be, from talking to friends in the city and my own family hailing from the south Indian state of Kerala, I wanted to create a space where connection and exposure to new cultures could take place. 

From traditional dance and music to workshops exploring South Asian representation in media I wanted the platform to extend beyond the clubs and internet. I hope to continue to expand on what these events and programming can look like. Before the pandemic interrupted things we planned to have a multicultural potluck, food was a focal point of many events, providing various traditional appetizers, venue permitted. 

 

Pandemic Live Stream at Nomu Nomu

  • Virtual
    Virtual
  • Show 1
    Show 1
  • Flyer
    Flyer
  • Flyer
    Flyer
  • Dance
    Dance
  • Media Workshop
    Media Workshop
  • Ami Dang
    Ami Dang
  • Prints
    Prints
  • DC
    DC

    Transceiver Radio

  • DC
    DC