maëry lanahan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Seattle whose practice investigates how memory, emotion, and perception are constructed and reshaped through abstraction. Working primarily in oil painting, she develops layered compositions that emphasize transparency, revision, and material sensitivity. By building surfaces through thin glazes and translucent veils of color, Lanahan creates visual structures that mirror the instability and accumulation of remembered experience.

Her work focuses on how formal elements—light, texture, and spatial ambiguity—can express psychological and emotional states without reliance on narrative imagery. Through a deliberate process of addition and erasure, she explores the tension between clarity and obscurity, permanence and change. This approach reflects an ongoing interest in the ways painting can function as both a record of process and an investigation of consciousness.

Alongside her visual work, Maëry creates music under the moniker Tether the Star, a project that interweaves sound and image. Many of her painting series are in conversation with her original songs, forming emotional diptychs.

Lanahan earned her BA from The Ohio State University. Her work has been exhibited at Ryan James Fine Arts and in juried exhibitions throughout the Pacific Northwest, and is held in private collections in Washington and Ohio.

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RYAN JAMES FINE ARTS

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