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