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ART WALK
Join more than 40 galleries throughout Laguna Beach on the first
Thursday of every month for a festive cultural evening from 6 to 9
p.m. Free shuttle service commences from the Laguna Art Museum 6:15
p.m. and runs until 9 p.m. Information: https://www.firstthursdays
artwalk.com or (949) 683-6871. The next First Thursday Art Walk will
take place from 6 to 9 p.m. on April 1.
*Notes galleries who participate in the First Thursday Art Walk.
NORTH COAST
HIGHWAY GALLERIES
*California Art Gallery
(949) 494-7270
305 N. Coast Highway, Suite A
Primary focus on early California watercolor artists. Also
featuring early historic California impressionists and two
contemporary oil painters; Liliana Simanton and Mark Geller.
*Gallery McCollum
(949) 497-4027
206 N. Coast Highway
Gallery McCollum specializes in original landscape paintings of
Italy and France, tropicals and local scenes. Group show featuring
Caroline Zimmermann, Patrick Tobin, Michael Logan, David Solomon,
Lisa Kaspryzcki and Michael Obermeyer.
*Greenwood/
Chebithes Gallery
(949) 494-0669
330 N. Coast Highway
Featuring recent paintings by Timothy Berry and Joseph Maruska.
*Laguna Art Museum
(949) 494-8971
307 Cliff Drive
Featuring for Art Walk, April 1, Artists in Action: Laguna
Outreach Community Arts hands-on workshops and demonstrations 6 to 8
p.m.
Laguna Art Museum recently opened two new exhibits: “Joseph
Raphael: American Expatriate -- Impressionist Paintings from the
Collection of Oscar and Trudy Lemer,” and Deborah Aschheim’s
site-specific installation based on neurobiology, with light as the
principal medium. Raphael is an American artist who spent 37 years in
Europe, never severing his connection to his country and hometown,
San Francisco. The exhibit is of 70 pieces that creates an
unprecedented opportunity to see various facets of Raphael’s persona,
his life’s work and what it means to be a California Impressionist.
https://www.lagunaart museum.org.
*Laguna North Gallery
(949) 494-4324
376 N. Coast Highway
This month featuring watercolors and oils by Jeanne Davis. Oils
and watercolors by Patti Cliffton. Regularly featured artists: Bob
Hall, Elaine Ruettiger, plein air watercolors by Hedy Codner and
Watercolorist Brian Norkaitis, and oil painter Maggie Jamison.
*Len Wood’s
Indian Territory, Inc.
(949) 497-5747
305-D N. Coast Highway
For Art Walk, April 1, Free Appraisal Night. Bring in your
Indian-made item(s) and they will give you a free verbal appraisal of
it just like “Antiques Roadshow.”
*Lu Martin Galleries
(949) 494-8074
372 N. Coast Highway
Discover Armenak Ranapetian -- a new artist from Prague.
*Marion Meyer
Contemporary Art
(949) 497-5442
354 N. Coast Highway
Featuring artist reception for Melissa Battersby’s show “A New
Life”
*Peter Blake Gallery
(949) 376-9994
326 N. Coast Highway
The Peter Blake Gallery on North Laguna’s historic Gallery Row has
been a definitive source for modern and contemporary art since 1992.
https://www.artscenecal.com/ pblake.html
*Quorum Art Gallery
(949) 494-4422
374 N. Coast Highway
Celebrating 40 years in Laguna Beach, the gallery exhibits the
works of twelve members and one guest artist. Newest member Marilyn
Thompson exhibits landscapes and portraits.
*Sandstone Gallery
(949) 497-6775
384A N. Coast Highway
Featuring “Textures” collage by Marge Chapman and “Sheer
Luminosity,” delicate layers of pearlescent metallic paint shimmer
across the canvas, by guest artist Brian Allen.
Schaar Galleries Ltd.
(949) 497-7289
484 N. Coast Highway
https://www.schaar galleries.com
*Studio 7 Gallery
(949) 497-1080
384B N. Coast Highway
Featuring works by artists in residence Eagle, Wade Weiderman and
Wodark.
*Deborah Carman Gallery
(949) 464-9709
305 N. Coast Highway
Featuring Debbie Carman, who draws, paints and sculpts whimsical
cats and dogs and unique colorful fine decorative sculpture.
*Whitney Gallery
(949) 497-4322
350 N. Coast Highway
https://www.marcwhitney.com
Featuring the works of prominent artist Marc Whitney, whose work
reflects East and West Coast influences. His eclectic, highly
personal style encompasses such themes are figures, landscape, still
life and interiors.
CENTRAL
DOWNTOWN GALLERIES
Auster Studio/Gallery 133
(949) 494-9525
2405 Laguna Canyon Road
https://www.kenauster.com
Banking on Art at
Wells Fargo Bank
(949) 497-2234
260 Ocean Ave.
Banking On Art is proud to present “Animal Chemistry,” an exhibit
of local artists who are compassionate about animals. The exhibit
will focus on animal life and increase the awareness about the
positive work at Laguna Beach Animal Shelter. The show will open with
an artist reception from 4 to 6 p.m. April 1. All sales of art will
donate 15% to PRC, which is a nonprofit group that helps the shelter
with supplies. To attend, donations of any size are required. The
Sawdust Festival and Festival of Arts are on continuous exhibit
through this program. For information, call (949) 497-2234.
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