"Satellite to Earth" art exhibit

Gateway Gallery is delighted to present its October exhibit, “Satellite to Earth,” featuring the work of Janice Schoultz Mudd and three guest artists: photographer Ken Konchel, photographer Susan McAnany and interdisciplinary artist Claire Medol Hyman. The exhibit runs Oct. 2 through Nov. 19, with an artists’ reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 14 at Gateway Gallery, 7921 Forsyth Blvd. Gallery hours are Wednesday and Thursday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday 11-7, Sat. 11-6, Sunday 10-5, Closed Monday and Tuesday. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Oct. 14 from 6-9.

Inspired by ancient navigational maps and today’s satellite imagery, Schoultz Mudd redefines the perspective of landscape art using only a creative imagination and a paint brush. With Google Earth as the point of departure, Mudd transforms everyday landscapes into abstract, vibrant, and luminous canvas paintings.

            A graduate of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Schoultz Mudd honed her artistic talents in the architecture and design field but gravitated to painting when her family moved to St. Louis in 1998. Her imaginative and inquisitive nature shines through in her paintings and collages with layers and layers of color, as masterfully revealed in her collection “Satellite to Earth.”

Guest artists Konchel, McAnany, and Medol Hyman bring unique skills and expertise to the October exhibit. Photographer Konchel is drawn to the expressive power of buildings, capturing architecture in a nonrepresentational, graphic way that removes the context of the photograph and reveals the true beauty of the architectural design. 

Photographer McAnany, through her long-time development of skills in photography and her mastery and love for media, infuses her photographs with a strange new energy that only today’s latest digital technology can provide.       Interdisciplinary artist Medol Hyman, through her long-lived curiosity of odd and textured everyday objects such as discarded fabrics, beaten-up metals, and wrinkled paper, transforms these, what some people might call “worthless objects,” into treasured and provoking works of art. The variety and range of skill and interest from these guest artists offer “Satellite to Earth” a new level of excitement for both the artists and the public.

Established in 2004, Gateway Gallery is a unique, co-op art gallery exhibiting 18 regional, award-winning artists whose work ranges from traditional landscape to contemporary abstraction. Ranging media includes oil, pastel, acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, photography, ceramics, and woodworking. Exhibits typically run every six weeks, featuring one of the gallery’s 18 artists as well as three visiting artists. Located in downtown Clayton, Mo., the gallery is walking distance to other galleries and many of St. Louis’ finest restaurants and cafés, making it a “must-stop” destination for art lovers, art collectors and designers.

Visit www.GatewayGalleryOnline.com for more information.