Excerpts from Reviews of Lemay's Work: 

"Our eyes probe the perceptual mysteries of the familiar objects depicted in this globular world. Light sources, convex surfaces, brilliant colour, and spatial relationships all become contemplative riddles. Emerging from the experience, we feel slightly dizzy--but delighted."
    (Asian Art News)

"Real life frozen in still life mastery."
    (Gilbert Bouchard)

"His painstakingly rendered images allude to Dutch seventeenth century still life painting with a contemporary twist in the relationship and juxtaposition of the components."
    (Kay Burns)

"Compositionally, [his] work is the most sophisticated and complex."
    (Charles Mandel)

"For Lemay, light and drapery imbue the still life with a spiritual significance similar to still lifes of the Baroque era that were memento moris--reminders of the brevity of life. Lemay refers to his work as "residual altars of still life" in which fabric is draped over the pedestal as a ceremonial vestment. Strong light falls across crisp, white drapery, starkly contrasting with the elegance of the fruit and flowers. The somber mood is further enhanced by the inclusion of an abstracted skull in several of his most recent works." 
    (Galleries West)

"This longtime, still-life painter ... manages to make the open-ended possibilities of postmodern/poststructuralist quotation work for him, but in a surprisingly subtle and beautifully old-school fashion."

"History lives and breathes in an engaged 21st century context in these high-veracity works while the modern touches are all lovingly grounded in their respective historical contexts."

"These are far more ‘dramatic’ works boasting simple arrangements of dramatically lit flowers, vases and fruit on stark brown-black backgrounds. The effect is as if the objects were being lit in an artificial black-box theatre fashion, creating work-aware-of-being-work (after all, what is more ‘staged’ than a still life) that revels in its modern esthetic owing as much to contemporary photography and fancy design magazines as early Spanish still-life artists."(Galleries West)
    (Galleries West)

"Lemay breathes new life into form."
    (Edmonton Journal)