Interpretations Of Our Natural World opens
Saturday, April 13th, from 3pm - 6pm.
Exhibition on view until June 1st, 2024
Featuring work by:
Linda Mayer, Brooks Salzwedel, Kim Zarney, Marc Petrovic, & Kari Russell-Pool
Linda Mayer
Northeast Ohio artist, Linda Mayer, graduated with honors from Kent State University 2001 earning a BA in Art Education. She earned her MA in Education from Fontbonne University 2010, St. Louis, Missouri. Initially trained in both acrylic and oils, Mayer discovered her true passion the day she first dipped her brush into molten encaustic wax and she has been working with this ancient medium ever since.
Kim Zarney
Born in Medina, Ohio, Kim Zarney attended Syracuse University and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Zarney has worked as an illustrator, graphic designer and advertising agency creative director. Recently renewing his fine arts career, he is actively building a body of work with a specific focus on contemporary monochromes inspired by elements of the natural world. His work is included in numerous public and private collections.
Sasha Bakaric
Brooks Salzwedel
Brooks Shane Salzwedel received his B.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena in 2004. His encaustic works focus on natural and unnatural landscapes disconnected from their usual surroundings or places in time.
Bonnie Gordon
Rebecca Zweibel
Kari Russell-Pool & Marc Petrovic
Marc earned a BFA with a major in glass and minor in metals from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1991. There he met his wife, and fellow glass artist Kari Russell-Pool. The pair went on to share a studio, two children and a host of beloved dogs. They currently reside in Euclid after trading the Connecticut coast for the shores of Lake Erie.
Featured Artist of the Month
Justin Rothshank
Justin Rothshank has been working as a studio ceramic artist in Goshen, Indiana since 2009. In 2001 he co-founded the Union Project, a nonprofit organization located in Pittsburgh, PA.
Justin’s ceramic work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally, including articles in Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, Studio Potter, The Log Book, and Neue Keramik. He has been a presenter, panelist, visiting artist, and artist-in-residence at numerous universities, schools, conferences, and art centers throughout the United States and abroad. His functional and decorative ceramic ware is available for purchase in more than two dozen galleries and gift shops around the country.
Justin was presented with a 2017 Individual Advancement Grant from the Indiana State Arts Council, and Award of Excellence by the American Craft Council in February 2009. In 2007 he was recognized by Ceramics Monthly Magazine as an Emerging Artist. He has also been awarded an Alcoa Foundation Leadership Grant for Arts Managers, a 2007 Work of Art Award from Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the 2005 Decade of Servant Leadership Award from Goshen College, and was named to Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40 under 40 in 2005.
About River Gallery
River Gallery is dedicated to supporting the revival and continuance of Cleveland area arts and artists. The owner, Ara Hamamjian, has established connections with the art professors and alumni of area schools such as the Cleveland Institute of Art, Baldwin Wallace University, and Kent State University. The gallery shows everything from contemporary to traditional style paintings, works in metals, blown glass, ceramics, photography, and jewelry fabrications.
