Welcome to Yellow Door Gallery

YOUR VERY OWN ART EXHIBITION IN AN EXQUISITE SPACE

Looking for an opportunity to have a duo or solo art show? Yellow Door Gallery inside The Red Twig hosts open receptions for local artists four times per year. We can host all manner of work in our 800-square-foot space. We work with local artists to facilitate engaging pairings, and promote the vibrant art community here in Northeast Ohio.

Want to display your artwork? Fill out our Artist Application at the bottom of this page.

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Please note: Yellow Door Gallery is a curated exhibition space. If you are looking for our general Artist’s Gallery, please click here.

Upcoming at Yellow Door

Care Hanson / Susan Mentrak

April 2 / 6-8PM

About The Artist: care hanson

About The Artist: Susan Mentrak

Eva Volf / Tracy McCarty

June 4 / 6-8pm

About the Artist: eva volf

About the Artist: Tracy McCarty

Group Ten

September 3 / 6-8pm

About the Artist: Jeff Fauser

About the Artist: Judy Graiser

About the Artist: Tina grondin

Tina works in a variety of media including oil, watercolor, bound graphite and mixed media collage. Her paintings are inspired by natural and urban environments and by conditions of their transformation. She rearranges multiple sources and reconstructs fragmented worlds in which the pieces don’t exactly fit together anymore.  She works in layers which are concealed and exposed, thus documenting her creative process. Art, like life, is a process of transition. Her work explores states of fragility, endurance, order and chaos which occur with change. Through the landscape, Tina responds to human experience where life changes, parts are discarded, rearranged, transformed, and we begin anew.  The narrative may change based on the viewer’s reflective experience. With a degree in Art Education and a Masters in Art from Kent State University, Tina enjoyed many years as an art teacher and continues to work from her studio in Garrettsville, Ohio. Tina’s paintings have been exhibited at numerous area galleries including The Butler Institute of Art National Mid-Year Show, Lakeland College May Show, Group Ten Gallery, Summit Art Space, Fairmount Center for the Arts, Valley Art Center and The Box Gallery. In addition to being an associate member at Group Ten Gallery, Tina is a member of Artists of Rubber City.  You may contact Tina Grondin at tina4art@gmail.com

Or visit her website: http://tinagrondin.com

About the Artist: Marianne Hite

Marianne Hite, a native of Akron Ohio, was born in 1962. She started as an enamellist on metal but upon seeing a cover of a magazine with Dominick Labino's glasswork she searched for a place where she could study glass as well as enameling. While attending Kent State University, she was exposed to glass artists not only from America but from all over Europe as well. The glass program was under the direction of Professor Henry Halem. He was instrumental in providing the opportunity for the student's exposure to a very rich and diverse array of world class talent. Marianne Hite received her B.F.A. from Kent State University in 1987. Since then she has operated her own studio where she resides in the City of Green. Her expressive style employs a variety of techniques such as fusing, enameling, sandblasting, laminating glass, mosaic and stained glass. She teaches small classes in her home studio and also teaches at the Peninsula Art Academy, where she was board chair from 2016 until 2022.

http://www.hiteofglass.com/

About the Artist: Carol Klingel

Carol works primarily in oils and acrylics.  She is fascinated with the play of light across objects, landscapes, and faces.  Consequently, the viewer encounters realistic shadows in unusual vantage points in Carol’s work. Carol earned an MS in Education from the University of Akron, following her BA in Art Education from Kent State University.  A teacher for many years, Carol taught in the Medina Public Schools, Brunswick High School and at Akron University.  In addition, she has led a wide range of workshops on creativity and drawing. Her work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions including juried shows at Akron’s Summit Artspace & Box Gallery, Lakeland Community College, Chagrin Valley Art Center, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, the Butler Institute of American Art, Medina Library, Mesa Public Library Gallery in Los Alamos, NM, and most recently a duo exhibit with master bird carver, Tom Baldwin, in December 2017, at the Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation in Hudson, Ohio.

About the Artist: Jim Leslie

James W. Leslie is a painter who resides in Northeast Ohio where he captures the beauty of the landscapes of the Cuyahoga Valley, surrounding areas, and beyond. Beginning at an early age, his desire to express how nature makes him feel has become a life-long passion. His exposure to French Impressionism and American Landscape painting at an early age set forth an aspiration to capture the rural places of home and travel. Intrigued by color and light, James is challenged to record the beauty found within the natural world of sky, trees, fields, mountains, rivers and streams. James earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from The Ohio State University and a Master of Fine Art from Kent State University. He is an active member in local and national art organizations and enjoys painting daily in the field or in his studio. I have been a member of The Artists of Group Ten for about a year and have enjoyed gaining new friends and insights into creating with these amazing artists. The ability to share ideas and work together has been invaluable, not only as an artist, but as a human being as well. I look forward to many years to come.

About the Artist: Carolyn E. Lewis

I have been a member of Artists of Group 10 since 2016. We are a group of professional artists that offer a wide variety of artwork and have become a family of good friends. The art of Carolyn Lewis is inspired by nature, wildlife, and people. It is sensitive without being overly sentimental. Her commissioned portraits of individuals and animals, and her powerful landscapes, are steadily gaining acclaim in national art circles. She has taught landscape classes and workshops for over 30 years, including in the Great Lakes region, other states and Italy. Carolyn’s portraits include benefactors, lawyers, CEOs and clergy. Along with several solo exhibitions, Carolyn Lewis has been selected to exhibit in many local, regional and national art competitions. In addition, she often serves as a juror for exhibitions, locally and nationally. Along with being a member of Artists of Group Ten, she has Signature membership status that includes:  Oil Painters of America,  Akron Society of Artists, Ohio (Past President and Emeritus). Carolyn also has General membership status in the  Portrait Society of America, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society and the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center, Ohio. She is the author of  Land and Light Workshop, Painting Mood and Atmosphere in Oils  by North Light Books, and an accompanying video/DVD entitled Painting Mood and Atmosphere in Oils by Teaching Art, Ltd.  

For more information, visit Carolyn’s website at www.lewisstudio.com

About the Artist:dan linder

Dan became a member of Group Ten in early 2014, shortly after retiring from Goodyear. The timing was fortuitous, significantly altering the trajectory of his life. Dan specializes in oil painting, focusing on landscapes and geometric abstraction rooted in reality. He endeavors to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary through his artwork. With a degree in Physics and a design career at Goodyear Tire, he has developed an appreciation for the intrinsic value of shape and form. He has studied under a diverse group of artists, including Jack Richard, Margaret Kessler, Gary Godbee, Marc Moon, Dino Massaroni, Carolyn Lewis, Judith Carducci, Linda Tompkin, Jack Liberman, Judith Hertzi, Hal Scroggy, Betty Elliot, and Margret Stiles. Additionally, he has participated in workshops at the Seattle Academy of Realistic Art and the Sedona Art Workshop. As a thirty-year Signature member of the Akron Society of Artists and a member of Oil Painters of America, Dan has exhibited in numerous shows and received several accolades. He was selected for the National Midyear Show at the Butler Institute of American Art and was a finalist in the 2013 Artist’s Magazine “Artists Over 60” competition.

Further information about Dan's work can be found at www.DanLindnerArt.com

About the Artist: mo Mosyjowski

Mary “Mo” Mosyjowski does not limit her artwork to just one medium, instead she boldly experiments with different combinations of mediums creating works that are unique and transcendent. Her many years of experience in watercolor, acrylic, collage, oil, batik, gelli plate printing, etc., lead her to maintain a successful teaching career. Mosyjowski has been teaching private lessons and workshops since 2006 covering subjects such as alcohol inks, Pysanka, altered books, gelli plate printing, and paper making. Currently at the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center, she teaches an abstraction and embellishments class, essentials of beginning acrylics class and their alcohol ink workshops. She is also a signature member of Akron Society of Artists and Group 10 Gallery. Mosyjowski has won numerous awards across the region for her artwork, most notably winning the People’s Choice Award within the annual Kaleidoscope exhibition at Summit ArtSpace for her altered book of self-portraits. Another interesting fact about her, is that growing up she had a pet chicken named Whitey.

About the Artist: William Peck

Bill Peck is a retired art teacher who continues to be involved in art education and art production. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited in juried art shows in the northern Ohio area. His work consists mainly of two types: paintings and colored pencil drawings. The paintings are almost exclusively landscapes and related still lifes in oil and acrylic. These paintings are responses to personal experiences and observations. The colored pencil drawings tend to be more intuitive and come from a wider range of stimuli. They are done on a plaster-like material that allows for a variety of levels, surfaces, textures, and finishes. It can be shaped, molded, sanded and tooled. In addition to his paintings and drawings, Bill is a volunteer docent at the Cleveland Museum of Art where he enjoys introducing visitors, young and old alike, to its exciting collection. He conducts general public tours and special exhibition tours.

“I am honored to be a part of this association of fine artists. The wide range of experiences and professionalism is stimulating. Besides that, these people are just fun to be around!”

For more information, visit www.wpeckart.com

About the Artist: Katina Pastis Radwanski

Katina balances work as both a painter and a sculptor.  Images grow from her meditative sketching technique to develop interest and visual strength.  These images are most often abstract in nature although occasionally representational work presents itself.  The paintings and sculptures that result from these sketches range through interpretations of political climates, human interactions, and her personal experience.  Most often the work is open to the viewer’s frame of reference. Katina earned a Master’s degree in Art education from the University of Georgia and spent many years in Atlanta before moving back to Ohio.  Art has been a lifelong passion for her and, in addition to teaching art in public schools, she taught children’s art and craft classes for various community organizations as a teenager and adult community classes as a young wife and mother. Along with several group exhibitions, she has had several solo exhibits including  2016 Red Twig Gallery, Hudson, OH; 2014 Hudson Fine Art Gallery, Hudson, OH; 2012 Akron Woman’s City Club Gallery, Akron, OH; 2011 Summit County Offices Gallery, Akron, OH; 2011 Akron Bar Association Gallery, Akron OH; 2010 Hudson Fine Art Gallery, Hudson, OH; 2010 Studio 2091 Gallery, Cuyahoga Falls, OH; 2010 The Box Gallery, Akron, OH; 2008 City Art Gallery, Cuyahoga Falls, OH; 2006 Strawberry Fields Gallery, Alpharetta, GA; 2004 Good Karma Gallery, Buford, GA.  Katina works in her studio in downtown Akron, often creating work on commission.

For more information, visit www.cpastisradart.com 

About the Artist: John smolko

John P. Smolko spent 35 years teaching secondary school art education to talented young artists in Ohio and retired in 2008.  He is presently enjoying his life as a fulltime artist and continues to be recognized for his unique colored pencil style.  John has exhibited his art throughout the United States and has work in the permanent collection of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, the Sargent-Laessig Museum of Fine Arts in Hinckley, Ohio, and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio in Columbus. A Colored Pencil Society of America Signature Member, John has been juried into eleven CPSA International Exhibitions.  Recently he won Best in Show honors in the 3rd Annual Regional Juried Show at Group Ten Gallery in Kent, Ohio.  In CPSA exhibitions John has received the District Chapters Award for Exceptional Achievement at the 22nd Annual CPSA International Exhibition in Ormond Beach, Florida.  In his home state of Ohio at the “2013 Colored Pencil Exhibition,” sponsored by the CPSA District Chapter #119, John’s work took First Place honors. His art continues to be recognized in regional, national, and international exhibitions and he strives to share his enthusiasm for mark making everywhere he travels.

If you would like to see a more detailed list of John’s exhibitions and awards, and more of John’s work, go to smolkoart.com and scrutinize his website.

About the Artist: Frank Susi

Frank is a ceramic artist whose pots are unique and vigorous. To achieve a finished work that satisfies his aesthetic priorities, he plans and sketches with great care seeking to explore the expressive opportunities available with clay and glaze. Holding a Ph.D. degree from The Ohio State University, Frank is a Professor of Art Emeritus at Kent State University. He also served as Interim Associate Dean in the College of the Arts. Frank’s work has been accepted in shows at the Akron Art Museum, Canton Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Massillon Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, and in many galleries across Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. His work is held in the collections of the Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH; State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, Columbus, OH; Muskingum College, New Concord, OH; American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA; and the Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH.

About the Artist: Carol Tomasik

Carol creates art in several mediums, including drawing, clay, and encaustic painting.  Her large-scale drawings may be in graphite or colored pencil.  Dreamlike images, rich with patterning, invite the viewer to form their own interpretation as to its meaning.  Her clay sculptures are generally figurative, often nearly life size.  For these works, Carol uses a mix of clay, wire, wood and paper, as well as found objects such as old metal fittings and rusty gears, to create original wall pieces or free-standing artwork.  Recently, Carol has begun working in encaustic painting as well, using wax-based paints to create mixed-media collages. After earning her BFA from Kent State, Carol worked in graphics and advertising for several years.  Looking for something a bit more creative, she later found work as a designer of giftware and character dolls for an import company.  She continues to explore many other artistic venues, including textiles, jewelry, and illustration, and painting. Carol is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America.  Her work has been in dozens of juried shows across the country, including the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in galleries from Florida to California. In 2009, her colored pencil drawing was chosen as the official poster for the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC. 

Many of her current small pieces may be seen at www.onedegreeeast.etsy.com

About the Artist: Jana Volkmer

Jana Volkmer became an artist because she admired their ability to “capture something- a likeness, an essence, the atmosphere a subject inhabits or the rhythms of lines and patterns” she says.  As a child she delighted in the paintings of Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt at the Cleveland Museum of Art; later she was mesmerized by Seaside, Jean-Jacques Tissot’s famous portrait of a red-haired beauty daydreaming in a sumptuous white and yellow ruffled dress. It’s easy to see these influences in Jana’s style, which ranges from naturalistic to impressionistic, and in her subject matter.  Whether landscape or seascape, portraiture, still life or florals, she strives to capture the visual pleasure she discovers in her subjects, from geranium leaves fluttering in the breeze to the symphony of pinks and purples at Monet’s famous Giverny garden. Jana began her fine art training at Ohio Wesleyan University,  where she majored in interior design and studied painting.   Her early works were primarily in watercolors, during which time she studied under renowned watercolorist  Florian Lawton.  She now works primarily with oils and pastels.  While her medium has changed through the years, her favorite subjects have not, her primary focus being figurative, portrait, still life and landscape. In recent years her works have begun to gain much recognition. She strives to be artistically and technically accurate, while creating rich pieces that make a bold statement. Jana is a signature member of the Akron Society of Artists, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors.  Her paintings have won awards in juried shows at The Massillon Museum of Fine Arts and The Canton Museum. Her works are in private collections throughout the United States.

About the Artist: Gwen Waight

Gwen has been a collector of found treasures for many years. She creates unique assemblages with these found objects often using boxes, ephemera, rusty metal and coveted old hardware. Gwen has been an active artist since her early years working in her father's pottery studio where she learned her appreciation of 3D space. She completed her art degree from the University of Iowa, studying sculpture and ceramics. Her assemblages and construction are sometimes figurative, but more often abstract. 

About the Artist: Helen Wilson

Helen has taken a non-traditional path through the art world.  She says that her artist statement is more of a love letter than an academic treatise. It all began, she claims, in her family’s lush garden in Southern California. There she encountered beauty everyday. Her art making began as a middle school student doodling on everything that didn't move.  In high school,she was given a rapidograph technical pen and her doodling became intricate, fanciful drawings. After high school Helen left the artistic path to pursue her education, career and family. Jump ahead several decades and a couple thousand miles, and in the 90’s, Helen and her family moved to the edge of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Her childhood fascination with the natural world was rekindled and she found herself needing to give voice to the botanical world around her. So in her mid-fifties, she began to take art classes. She experimented with several different mediums before finding her voice in mixed media collage. From there she spent several years developing her own unique semi-abstract, 3D collage style. Helen uses acrylics, inks, along with mono-printing, intricate cutting, folding, sgraffito and metal gilding in her work. Recently, she began to use her process to create free standing paper assemblages. Helen is a “new-comer” to the group having been a member of Group Ten Artists for only two years. She says “the  friendships,  support , and encouragement have meant the world to me.”

Find out more about Helen at her website: helenwilsonart.com

Katrina Polhamus /Adriana Caso

November 5 / 6-8pm

About the Artist: Katrina Polhamus

About the Artist: adriana Caso

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