DOGS! 

An exhibit featuring the Dog themed artwork of  

James Ruby, portraits 

and Sharon Sheinbart, sculpture. 

Opening reception: Saturday March 16th, 3-7pm

Exhibit runs through Saturday, April 20, 2013

This exhibit celebrates our furry friends with the intimate 

canine portraits of James Ruby and the subtle 

and the endearing dog sculptures of Sharon Sheinbart.

Both artists capture the nobility, intelligence and charm of these incredible animals.

River Gallery will host a food & supply drive for

the Friends of the Cleveland Kennel on Saturday, March 23rd.

Drop off your donations of canned or dry food and treats, towels or blankets at the

gallery 12-7pm.

Mitchell Sotka will be hosting a trunk show benefit for

the Friends of the Cleveland Kennel

 with artist Gai Russo and red i jewelry on Friday, March 22, 5-7pm 

and Saturday, March 23, 11-7pm.

The exhibit Discard/Reclaim will be extended through April 6, 2013.

This wonderfuyl postcard designed by Jeff Balazs.

Discard/Reclaim

New work by Nina Huryn and Terry Klausman

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 16th, 3-7pm

Nina Huryn, Mixed Media Constructions 

Terry Klausman, Found Object Assemblages

Nina Huryn and Terry Klausman share a skill at noticing the discarded things around us and using these as elements in their affecting found object assemblages.

Nina Huryn has a remarkable story-telling ability that is immediately apparent in her work.  She adds panels of tooled and painted leather with imagery that sometimes subtly, sometimes overtly tells a story or portrays a modern interpretation of a morality tale.  These panels are not unlike the cells in a comic book or graphic novel or even the hieroglyphic panels in Egyptian tombs.  Information provided by cast-off fragments of candy wrappers, machinery or unidentifiable parts is woven into a narrative with her skeletal figures acting out a part in a scene in a play.
Huryn's skeletal figures owe much to the Gothic and early Renaissance artists; Jan Van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch and Albrecht Durer. These skeletal characters are not simple representations of ancestors but represent the internal and external conflicts that are often at odds within us and around us.
 
Terry Klausman is a trained welder and self-taught artist whose creative curiosity and drive led him to sculpture and fine art.  His early metal sculpture made use of machinery cast-offs and his welding know-how to create complex sculptural pieces that are machine-age icons or effigies.
Klausman found a similar, softer, but no less original voice in found-object centered collage and sculpture.  Replacing the industrial machine parts were household tools, furniture and outdated electronics.  Instead of steel it is wood that forms the backbone and surface to these sculptures, but like the rust and patina of metal it is the faded surface or peeling paint of these wooden elements that adds the depth of time and with it character. That these disparate, discarded elements, meticulously fitted together, appear complete and whole is a testament to Klausman’s craftsmanship, patience and imagination.  That the sculptures reveal much yet remain mysterious after repeated observation is a statement of Klausman’s unique vision and creative spirit. An Akron native, this is Terry Klausman's first  Cleveland area gallery exhibit.

Exhibit runs through Saturday, April 6, 2013

Hilary Aurand,

Mark Yasenchack, mixed media mosaics and ceramic vessels

This is the debut of Hilary Aurand's urban landscape paintings at River Gallery. These bold, sometimes surreal , sometimes gritty, landscapes capture our city's industrial beauty and the desolate nature of its forgotten urban wastelands. Aurand's details are innately familiar; from the industrial cast-offs and machinery to the quality of light that feels like our bright northern Ohio summers or the long shadowed midwestern winters.  She renders these details with intimate brushstrokes and sophisticated composition that reveal a grace to the landscape of our city.

While Mark Yasenchack has exhibited his ceramic work at River Gallery before this is his first time exhibiting large format mosaics.  This work features found stone, glass and metal fragments and bits that end up as mosaic tesserae.  These are combined with tiles made with his textured clay technique.  The often gothic imagery in his work hints at ancient necropoli, tribal ritual sites, and obscured religious iconography found in ruined architecture.

This exhibit runs through Dec 2, 2012.

Paintings by Hilary Aurand and Mosaics by Mark Yasenchack

This is the debut of Aurand's urban landscape paintings at River Gallery.  These bold, sometimes surreal , sometimes gritty, landscapes capture our city's industrial beauty and the desolate nature of its forgotten urban wastelands.  Aurand's details are innately familiar; from the industrial cast-offs and machinery to the quality of light that feels like our bright northern Ohio summers or the long shadowed midwestern winters.  She renders these details with intimate brushstrokes and sophisticated composition that reveal a grace to the many landscapes of our city.

While Mark Yasenchack has exhibited his ceramic work at River Gallery before this is his first time exhibiting large format mosaics.  This work features found stone, glass and metal fragments and bits that end up as mosaic tesserae.  These are combined with tiles made with his textured clay technique.  The often gothic imagery in his work hints at ancient necropoli, tribal ritual sites, and obscured religious iconography found in ruined architecture.

Opening at River Gallery, Saturday July 28, 2012, 3-7pm

Extended run through October 13, 2012

Jeff Yost, paintings     Click on name to see gallery of exhibited works

Brian Sarama, ceramic wall platters     Click on name to see gallery of exhibited works

Despite working in different materials on entirely different forms Sarama and Yost’s work share an inscrutable perspective and an incredible attention to composition.

Having just finished his MFA at Kent State University Brian Sarama will be exhibiting new work that builds off the imagery seen in his work in the Ceramics Invitational.  Seemingly unrelated images are layered and over-lapped, breaking down the recognizable forms into shapes and color.

Jeff Yost’s new work, still inspired by the arcane hours of twilight and dusk, are now visited by fleeting shadows, birds in flight and the illumination of man-made structures.  His landscapes of a nocturnal world conceal more than they reveal but remain serene, the viewer often wishing to step into them.

This exhibition will run through October 13, 2012.  Click on name to see gallery of exhibited works

Participating artists:
Nicco Alesci  
Diane Bjel 
Bill Brouillard 
Marcus Brathwaite
Stephanie Craig
Bette Drake 
Megan Dull 
Susan Gallagher
Linda Goldstone
Bonnie Gordon
Yumiko Goto 
Sharon Grossman
Susan Hanna 
Barbara Humpage
Eva Kwong
Andrea LeBlond
Todd Leech
Clay Leonard
Lynne Lofton
Geno Luketic
Kirk Mangus
Ikuko Miklowski
John Nickerson
Jack Rotar
Robert Romeo
Judith Salomon
Brian Sarama
Larry Schiemann
Sharon Sheinbart
Jonathan Schwarz
Joy Sweeney
Megan Van Wagoner
Anna Wallace
Mark Yasenchack

Exhibit runs through May 24, 2012

River Gallery, 19046 Old Detroit Road, Rocky River 44116

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New Photography, featuring Mark Inglis, Jessica Maloney, Chad Gordon, Dan Morgan. The four photographers in this exhibit work in either alternative materials or with alternative techniques to transform both the image and content of a photograph.