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Lemay's new series is titled, "Big Screen TV." He is using his grid technique to highlight the digital. These days oil paintings often compete for wall space with big screen TVs and this series plays with that reality.

In his series, "Grid," he paints square by square, row by row. The painting may appear digitized but is meticulously hand painted. He's always used the grid to scale up photos but leaving traces of the process creates a tension between the image and the squares of tone and colour which are reassembled by the eye. Lemay think about Gerhard Richter as …