Scott Harbison’s aliens — strange, but also strangely endearing art — invade Red Bank gallery

By: Tris McCall

Outlets: NJArts

Published: September 16, 2026

Words: 1,236

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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If visiting spacemen don’t resemble Scott Harbison’s creatures, I suggest we turn their flying saucers around and send them home.

Since 2018, the New Jersey painter has been entertaining us with his images of strange beasts, painted in night-sky black and UFO red, on canvases and panels large and small. His aliens are generally approachable, usually adorable, and unmistakably extraterrestrial. They come bearing ray guns, rectangle-headed robots, and antennas in mid-transmission ringed by radio-wave halos. …

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