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.

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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