Tuesday April 4, at 6 p.m. the SCAT Gallery will open with a reception for three artists new to its walls.
Located in the lobby of the Somerville Media Center, the SCAT Gallery features three artists for April.
As a child, George Teshu attended St. Peter and Paul’s Russian Orthodox Church, which was filled with icons, gold, candles and paintings of the Holy Family and the Saints. He has studied with many artists in New Jersey where he was born, as well as in Boston and the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
“I feel that these early religious images have had an influence on my art today. My paintings and drawings are both sensuous and spiritual, and focus on the female form.”
Drawing on inspiration from fantasy, pop culture, and science-fiction media, John Ruymann creates digital landscapes. His artwork asks questions about untold stories: where is this represented landscape? Who is this figure? What happens next? His process seeks answers in the suggestions brought forth from the rendered space.
“As an artistic exercise, I will often respond in writing to my drawn work, using a phrase or description from Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, or J.R.R. Tolkien to describe composition existing otherwise as fantastic impossibilities.”
Since August 2022, Henry Hardy has been working with the generative art program Midjourney which uses text input and sophisticated image enhancement techniques to create visionary images. Henry has made more than 20,000 images on Midjourney since beginning his project. These displayed images are Giclee printed on archival quality Hahnemühle William Turner paper, using a high-quality dye printer. His work, “Windows on Other Worlds,” is inspired by his unpublished stories and role-playing world of an alternate Mars in 2034, called, “Lobopods of Mars.”
