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Presenting contemporary art from the Great Lakes region and beyond since 2009.

11/15/2024

ᴡɪʟʟɪᴀᴍ ᴄᴏʀᴡɪɴ:
ᴛʜɪɴɢꜱ: ᴡʜᴇᴇʟꜱ
ʟᴀᴅᴅᴇʀꜱ
ᴛᴇᴇᴛʜ
ᴀʟᴘꜱ
ɢᴏᴅꜱ
ʙᴏᴀᴛꜱ
ᴇᴛᴄ.: ᴛᴇɴ ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴏꜰ ꜱᴄᴜʟᴘᴛᴜʀᴇ

Opening December 6, 6-8 pm

🆕We are delighted to welcome New York based artist, Will Corwin to River House Arts for his exhibition of “Things”, a selection of cast metal sculptures from the past decade of his practice.

“Things” opens Friday, December 6 at 6 pm and runs through January 25.
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Long fascinated by the lineage of symbols, he’s expanded on his cast metal sculpture practice by interviewing and collaborating with archeologists and art historians, investigating how certain tools and ideas move from practical uses to symbolic objects; such as hand axes and ladders, even human teeth.

Corwin’s work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, Art Monthly, The Hudson Review, White Hot, and ArtNews, among others. In 2023 he did the Atelier Mondiale Residency in Basel, and has also done residencies at Art Omi, The Clocktower (and was a recipient of a Jerome Foundation Grant), The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency on Governors Island, The NADAHouse Residency on Governors Island, and the Gestatelier Residency in Hamburg, and a US State Department Artist Residency in Taipei. He has exhibited in London, Hamburg, Beijing, Taipei, Grand-Bressac, France, and is represented by Geary Contemporary in New York.

11/13/2024

We’re in!
Stay right here for the🗺️🧭 location drop.
In the meantime 🏎️ over to for more info and mark your calendars for December 7. This is a rare chance to catch some of Toledo’s best artists in one place!

#419

11/09/2024

Oh Ohio 🚩
It’s not just you

Land of Dust and Dreams | Eric Wright’s Ohio Lands
Now on view thru 11/16

*Signal
*Local Quarry
*Hail Stones and Coals of Fire
*Their Altars are as Heaps
*Smitten Rock

11/06/2024

American Gothic.

10/25/2024

“𝓦𝓮 𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓻𝓮 𝓪 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻 𝓮𝓺𝓾𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓽𝔂, 𝓮𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓽𝔂, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓪𝓲𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼; 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓮𝓪𝓴; 𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓽 𝓾𝓹𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰; 𝓲𝓷 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓻𝓽, 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓾𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝓾𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓾𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻. 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓼𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓪 𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓼, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓪𝓭𝓿𝓸𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝓲𝓼 𝓾𝓷𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓱𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓭𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓪𝓷 𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓡𝓮𝓹𝓾𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓬”. 𝓓𝓮𝓬𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓸𝓯 𝓟𝓾𝓻𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓖𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮, 1874

One of Eric Wright’s themes in Ohio Lands | Land of Dust and Dreams is the promise of the Grange. A promise that has long since faded in much of rural America.

⭐️As one of the largest grassroots movements in 19th-century America, the 🏠Grange left a broad imprint on Midwest agriculture, including laws protecting farmers from practices that favored Gilded Age 💰💰Capitalists. Farmers founded the organization in response to high railroad freight rates, unfair grain storage fees, and the growing economic power of large corporations exploiting farmers.

Apart from its collective social network, its progressive ideals were unusual for the time. It was vehemently anti-racist and women were given an equal voice in its operations. (In fact no Grange could be started without women).

𝓘𝓽 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓫𝓮 𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓫𝓲𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓲𝓹𝓵𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓾𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓻𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓮𝓿𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓸𝓹𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓾𝓯𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓫𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓽 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓭.

See Ohiolands thru Thanksgiving!

10/05/2024

Ready!

Grangers Stand your Belief (axe)
Mixed media 13x24cm

10/03/2024

“I never gave it much thought once I was away, what the places were doing to me. For many years it was just the distance, the inability to be drawn back to painful memories that mattered. I could not escape myself though and the things that caused pain followed me and were active in my paintings. It took until this project to complete the circle of my relation to Mt. Gilead and Ohio.”

Eric Wright| Land of Dust and Dreams
Ohio Lands
Opening Saturday October 5,6-8p

*the crib is clean
*local quarry
*poultry farm
*signal
*peace church dining

09/28/2024

𝑴𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚, 𝑬𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒓𝒆-𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑶𝒉𝒊𝒐. 𝑴𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝑮𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒐𝒇 3,661 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑮𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅, 𝒐𝒓 “𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒑 [𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔] 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒚” (𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝑾𝒊𝒌𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂), 𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒃𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒍𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑 𝒖𝒑𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉, 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄 𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒋𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑱𝒆𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒎 𝒐𝒓 𝑱𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒐. 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝑶𝒉𝒊𝒐𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝑴𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝑮𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒏 1832. 𝑨 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒅𝒘𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒔, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓.
-Will Corwin “Old paintings in the New World: Magical Realism in the Ohio Lands paintings of Eric Wright”

1. Is there no balm in Gilead
2. At the light of thine arrows
3. Balsam trees of Gilead

09/26/2024

Last days to catch Swan Song!
Friday Hours: 12-5p
Thank you & for the coverage!

09/25/2024

“In his latest series of post-modern engagements with discarded pre-modern tropes, London-based artist Eric Wright taps into {a}funny-smelling well, lifting the glossy homogenized pastoral veil from the American Midwest of his childhood to reveal the peculiar and electrifying dreamtime topography that lies beneath.”
- Doug Harvey, Eric Wright | Ohio Lands 2020

We are over-the-moon that our longtime friend Eric Wright is back to present an updated iteration of an exhibition he had originally planned for 2020! (And we know what happened then…)

Join us on Saturday October 5th, 6-8 pm for the opening of “Ohio Lands | Land of Dust and Dreams”

09/17/2024

💞Who doesn’t want to start their day at a gallery? 💕This 8 am crew of high school students was ready to engage! Huge thanks to their teacher Yusuf Lateef for bringing them by.

09/15/2024

🌸💐Next Sunday September 22nd!!💐🌸
Halima Afi Cassells and Shanna Merola will be discussing Swan Song, their collaborative exhibition and touring project, in the Little Theater of the Toledo Museum of Art followed by a reception and collage making station at the gallery! Adjacent to the museum you can also view their public installation in the outdoor courtyard of the Gehry building at the University of Toledo Center for Visual Arts.

Join us! See details and show images at links in profile.

09/13/2024

In February 2022 Halima Afi Cassells created a luxurious table spread for her family on Belle Isle to mark the seventieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the British throne.

“The installation’s centerpiece was an ice sculpture of a swan that Cassells commissioned. Despite being situated in a frigid Detroit February, the swan inevitably melted in the winter sun, an elegiac gesture that resonates with the piece’s title and the ancient belief that swans sing one last beautiful song before they die. The mute swan is the “Queen’s Bird” in Britain, subject to an ancient law granting the monarch exclusive rights. The same bird also lives on the Detroit River, exquisitely graceful but just as invasive as any other species that arrived with the ocean-going freighters traveling the river’s shipping lanes. At the same time, Cassells’s ice swan was also a symbolic homecoming of sorts: the Anishinaabe name for Belle Isle is Wah-na-be-zee, which translates to Swan Island.”

- Steve Panton, Brooklyn Rail 2023

Halima Afi Cassells
“Wannabeeze Facing Windsor” & “ Forbidden Fruit”
Archival pigment prints

On view now in Swan Song | Halima Afi Cassells & Shanna Merola
🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢
Join us Sunday 9/22 for
🎤artists’ talk
🍾reception
🎨🖌️✂️collage making

2 pm - Little Theater at Toledo Museum of Art
3 pm - River House Arts

Swan Song runs thru Sept 28.
See profile for Artsy show link

09/13/2024

➡️Exposure to chemicals including pesticides and plastics is a known risk factor for all types of cancer including breast cancer. Plant-based nutraceutical compounds like those found in Lupine may hold the key to effective prevention and treatment strategies.

Shanna Merola
“Lupine Diptych”
(series Love Canal : Evidence of Injury)
Hand assembled /analog collage
60x40
2024

On view now in Swan Song | Halima Afi Cassells & Shanna Merola
🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢
Join us Sunday 9/22 for
🎤artists’ talk
🍾reception
🎨🖌️✂️collage making

2 pm - Little Theater at Toledo Museum of Art
3 pm - River House Arts

Swan Song runs thru Sept 28.
See profile for Artsy show link

09/05/2024

We’re ready!

09/01/2024

The swan, both aesthetically and metaphorically, is a recurring figure in Swan Song, a traveling exhibition of Halima Af Cassells and Shanna Merola.

As an archetype, the graceful creature holds multiple meanings handed down through the centuries and across different cultures. According to ancient Greek mythology, the silent swan sings a beautiful song just before death.
As we stand on the precipice of collapse, in the wake of a new paradigm shift, can we also learn to experience beauty and joy amidst the terror?

Swan Song is on view now thru September 28.
Join us on September 22 at 2 pm for an Artist Talk in the Little Theater of the Toledo Museum of Art followed by a reception at River House Arts.

*Space Swan
Halima At Cassells & Shanna Merola
Archival pigment print

08/27/2024

🏹Next week you will find us in booth A19 at the 💫Art on Paper Fair 💫where we’ll be showing off works by & .❤️💙💛💚🧡

DM or comment if you’re gonna be around. It promises to be a fun show and we’d love to see you!

*note - if you can’t make it you can find all the offerings on Artsy beginning Sept 5.

08/20/2024

📣 THURSDAY🌈 6-8
Kick off your Pride weekend with a stop at Kitchen Sink Gallery - upstairs from River House Arts - and the new show “Entanglement” featuring works by 10 talented artists exploring themes of love & intimacy.
Show runs thru September.

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classic 😍😅😬- watch to end. #summertime #toledomuseumofart #venicebiennale

🎉Huge thanks to @maeganhillcarroll and @anntrondson for sharing their work with us and of course to everyone who came out last night to see it ⚾️⚾️⚾️🥎🥎🥎 Picture Ball is open thru Aug 17 by appt and/or see it on @artsy (appts and artsy link are in profile) . #poolsharks

We were so hoping a local theater would agree to screen this doc — but at least we have the trailer! @themaypang_official will be in the house next week 4-8 pm Tuesday and Wednesday. There is no charge and no appointment necessary.

Experience James “dirtykics” Dickerson’s work in person starting Saturday, January 28 5-8 pm. Dickerson’s new collection of silver gelatin prints features dozens of images he’s captured on Toledo’s streets during the past few years: “moments important to this city and to myself.”