River Gallery Open House this Saturday, Dec. 12, 3-7pm

River Gallery will host its annual Open House this Saturday, December 12, from 3-7pm.

Stop by and see the new work in our festive Holiday Collection.

Featuring many artists new to the gallery:
Natalya Romanovsky, Judith Brandon & Kiki Maclean, paintings
Cindy Kepler & Prosperity Glassworks, jewelry
Scott Goss, Glass wall pieces
Rebecca Krueger, hand crafted accessories
Paula Zinsmeister, prints & collage

New collections by:
Susan Gallagher Lynne Lofton,
Yumiko Goto & Andrea Le Blond, clay
Cherie Haney, metal wallpieces
Patty Flauto & Jeff Yost, paintings
Chuck Wimmer, prints

Holiday Collection!

Judith Brandon

Natalia Romanovsky


Prosperity Jewelry


Here are the artists new to River Gallery and the work they are debuting in our Holiday Collection.
Opening this Saturday, Nov. 14th 2009, 3-7pm.

Sneak Preview, Saturday Nov. 14th, 3-7pm

We will have a sneak preview for our Holiday Collection this Saturday, November 14th, 3-7pm.

It'll feature artwork selected with the gift-giving season in mind!
Wonderful art for the perfect & unique gift.

This will also be the last day to see the Todd Leech, Melissa Reagh & Stephanie Craig exhibit.

Marbles At River Gallery!

Marbles!
A wonderful collection of glass marbles has arrived at River Gallery.

Diane Christian Budd, the owner of Indigenous Gallery in Cincinnati curated this exhibit.

This is a collection of 20 regional and national glass artists. They are working in a variety of dazzling colors and complicated techniques to create glass that replicate underwater worlds, intricate woven patterns and flowers.

This exhibit is up until Saturday November 7th.

New work by Todd Leech, Melissa Reagh & Stephanie Craig Opening this Saturday

New work by Todd Leech, Melissa Reagh & Stephanie Craig
Opening this Saturday, October 10, 2009
from 3-7 pm

River Gallery is honored and excited to be exhibiting work by these three artists.
This is a great opportunity to meet the artists and discuss their techniques and art.

Opening this Saturday, Sept. 26th, 3-7pm

Opening this Saturday, Sept. 26th, 3-7pm
New work by Mark Yasenchack

Join us this Saturday for the latest River Gallery exhibit,
featuring ceramic vessels and encaustic collage by Mark Yasenchack.

Mark Yasenchack has been a ceramic artist for the last 20 years. This latest collection features larger and more intricately shaped vessels finished with his technique of washed on color that gives the work a stoney ancient look.

His encaustic collages start with photographs that have sections painted over or parts of other cut out photos pasted on. This collage is then encased in a transparent encaustic medium of bees wax and tree resin. This surface is stamped with letters and texture while warm. When cool oil paint is rubbed into the texture to create the illusion that the letters and patterns are floating over the images of the collage. Mark's prose and poem fragments play an important role in this narrative work creating intimate moments and gestures.

This exhibit runs through October 24, 2009

Important schedule change

Important schedule change:










Mark Yasenchack's exhibit,
Local Haunts, will open on September26, 2009 from 3-7pm.

Not September 19 as previously advertised.







Join us on September 19, 2009 for the first Rocky River Fall Arts Festival on Old Detroit Road!
50 Cleveland area artists and craftsman will be setting up on the street to exhibit their work.
Stop by River Gallery for refreshments and our Fall Collection of art.

Fall Line-up!

Here is the schedule for River Gallery's fall Exhibitions:

Saturday September 26, 3-7pm.
Local Haunts,
new work by Mark Yasenchack

Mark has been exhibiting at River Gallery for the last 2 years and has been gallery manager for the last year. This collection of work will include encaustic collage and a new series of terra cotta boxes Mark describes and "...boxy and a little wonky, boxes with bad posture but a lot of character." The collage are larger multi-panelled pieces with more narrative, either in the form of prose poems, or obscured text.


Opening October 10, 4-7pm Is an exhibit of new work by Stephanie Craig, Todd Leech and Melissa Reagh.
Stephanie Craig was profiled in the Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artists issue in June. Her husband Todd Leech will have just returned from his debut at the prestigious American Craft Exposition in Evanston IL.
Melissa Reagh's encaustics have been a great addition to our collection, and she will have a new series for this exhibit.


Images, from top to bottom,
1. Melissa Reagh
2. Stephanie Craig
3. Todd Leech
4 & 5. Mark Yasenchack

Bill Broulliard & Ron Meyers at River Gallery

Saturday July 25, 2009, 3-7 pm,
River Gallery Presents:

Bill Broulliard and Ron Meyers
Opening Saturday, July 25, 3-7pm
and runing through August 22, 2009.


Bill Brouillard, a professor in the Ceramics Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art, is the 2009 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cleveland Arts Prize. Bill has taught at CIA since 1980. Like Ron Meyers, humor is an important part in the imagery on his red earthenware vessels. Images on the large platters and bowls often read like comic strip cells telling a story or making a point.

Ron Meyers is a Professor emeritus at the University of Georgia and has taught courses and workshops throughout the country. His work is recognized and collected internationally. He works in red clay, creating functional vessels with an expressive vocabulary of images drawn onto the surface. Animals and human figures, their faces and expressions at once riveting and casual, are the great appeal of his work

River Gallery 19046 Old Detroit Road , Rocky River Ohio 44116
440 331-8406

Jewelry Exhibit at River Gallery

Jewelry Focus Exhibit

Featuring the following Cleveland jewelers:

Qandle Qadir

Deborah Woolfork

Todd Pownell
Debra Rosen

Kris Barnes

Janice Bianco
Catherine Davies Paetz

Grace Chin

Patti Fields
Jackie Magyar/Gardella Jewelry

Susan Skoczen
Kim Schoel

Tobi Mattes
Brandon Holschuh

Erica Weiss

Chris Keener/Crystal Moon Jewelry

Michael Romanik

Working in sterling silver, gold, precious stones and found elements, precious metal clay, dichroic glass, enamel and cloisonné

Opening on Saturday, June 20, 2009 4-7pm

Running through August 20th 2009 Hours: Tuesdays-Fridays 11-6pm

Saturdays 10-5pm

Closed Sundays & Mondays

Special summer hours for Sip & Stroll evenings in the Old Detroit Road shopping district

Thursdays July 9 and August 13 open until 8pm

Current Exhibit, closes June 20, 2009

Tobi Mattes dichroic glass jewelry

Linda Brown pastels

Joy Elaine Praznik ceramics and paintings


New works by
Joy Elaine Praznik, Linda Brown & Tobi Mattes
Opening Saturday, May 9th 2009 3-7pm

Current Exhibit, closing on May 2, 2009

River Gallery's current exhibit of
paintings by Michael Greenwald
and matte glass vessels by J. Nathaniel Cotterman
will close on May 2, 2009.

Opening this Saturday, February 7, 2009 3-7pm!

Our First exhibit of 2009 opens this Saturday February 7, 2009, from 3-7pm.

Ceramics by Andrea LeBlond and Yumiko Goto
Paintings by Jeff Yost

All three have exhibitted at River Gallery, but this will be a collection of all new work.
Both LeBlond and Goto craft vessels that combine functionality with unique approaches to surface and texture.
LeBlond's multi-pieced sets of dishes and plates are dynamically textured and glazed.
Goto's sculptures are often soft and organically curved, the surfaces deep and living.
Yost's paintings are shadowy, haunting landscapes where the forms of trees, animals and man-made structures are only hinted at.

If you would like to be on our email list please email us at rivergalleryarts@yahoo.com.

Our next exhibit opens on March 28th and will feature
the paintings of Michael Greenwald &
glass vessels by Jon Cotterman.
Stay tuned...

Welcome to River Gallery

Welcome to River Gallery's blogspot!
This blog will list openings & events at the gallery.
We will announce the arrival of new artwork and post exhibition opportunities.

We have 10 exhibits a year, mostly 2-3 artist groupings,
occasionally solo exhibits.

Ara Hamamjian is the owner.
Mark Yasenchack is the gallery manager.

Contact Information:

19046 Old Detroit Road, Rocky River Ohio 44116-1720

440 331.8406

www.RiverGalleryArts.com (will be relaunched early 2009)

rivergalleryarts@yahoo.com