ART WALK Join more than 40 galleries...

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 at

6:15 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 Oct. 7.

*Notes galleries that participate in the First Thursday Art Walk.

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 a photography exhibition by

local photographer Milano Liberi. Liberi has a passion for travel and

exploration into western landscapes and likes to capture that in

black and white, responding to the natural beauty he immerses himself

in while studying nature. He likes to capture the west’s mountains,

deserts, canyons, rivers, waterfalls, lakes and coastline at specific

times of the year. The gallery is directed by Fitz Maurice. The

Sawdust Festival and Festival of Arts are on continuous exhibit

through this program. Information: (949) 497-2234.

Coffin/Fulton Fine Art

(949) 497-2214

301 Forest Ave.

Featuring plein air landscapes and figurative work of A. Jane

Fulton and Lesanne Pelle Coffin.

*Diane DeBilzan Gallery

(949) 494-5757

224 Forest Ave.

The gallery is featuring new works by William DeBilzan.

*Fingerhut Gallery

(949) 376-6410

210-A Forest Ave.

The gallery represents a collection of paintings, graphics and

sculptures by artists: Jiang, Toomalatai, Snowden, Barbara McCann,

Vanderween, Dr. Seuss, Wilkinson along with modern masters, including

Chagall, Picasso, Miro, Rembrandt and Matisse.

Forest Avenue Fine Art

(949) 376-4244

220 Forest Ave.

https://www.forestavenue fineart.com

Exhibits continue with Alexander Volkov, Csaba Markus, Paige

Bradley, Alexandra Nechita, Frederick Hart, Siu Ho Lee and the Makk

Family.

*Harlow’s

(949) 376-6075

332, Suite 7 Forest Ave.

Featuring original works by artists James Strombotne, Gerard Van

der Leun, Maureen K. Scott, Dante Liberi, Annette Reed, Patrick

Clifford, Juliane Hodjera, Suzanne de Ainza Oliver.

*Haupt Gallery

(949) 494-2486

750 S. Coast Highway

https://www.hauptart.com

Showing original mixed media paintings by Joachim Haupt and

inspired scrap metal sculptures by international artist Prakasi.

*Kaleidoscope Gallery

670 S. Coast Highway

(949) 715-2630

Meet featured artists Christophe Vacher, Ilene Meyer, Tom Fagan

and Rob Gonsalves.

*Laguna College

of Art & Design

(949) 376-6000

2222 Laguna Canyon Road

https://www.lagunacollege.edu

Now exhibiting “A Passion For Paint -- Gallery and Illustration

work of Gregory Manchess Exhibition.” This free art exhibition is

comprised of Manchess’ original oils. The exhibit runs through Oct.

9.

McKeehan Art Gallery

(714) 883-3861

3295 Laguna Canyon Road, Suite C, at Stan Oaks

Exhibits feature flowers, landscapes, wildlife and portrait-style

paintings in oil and pastels.

Miranda Galleries

(949) 497-4491

417 S. Coast Highway

Featuring “Michelle Samerjan” an internationally acclaimed artist

who uses textiles collected from around the world to create her three

dimensional, textural landscapes.

The gallery is one of Southern California’s premier contemporary

art galleries, featuring internationally renowned artists’ woks on

paper and canvas and multiple originals and sculpture. The gallery

specializes in unique art from figurative to landscapes to abstract

expressionism, featuring Arkhipov, Emannuel, Richard Hall, Royo, Tuan

and recent works by gallery artists Henry Asencio, Michael Flohr,

Michelle Samerjan and others.

*Pacific Edge Gallery

(949) 494-0491

540 S. Coast Highway,

Suite 112 https://www.pacificedge gallery.com

Pacific Edge Gallery is dedicated to exclusively showing the

finest painters in Southern California. Beginning with contemporary

impressionist Maria Bertran, the gallery over the past 14 years has

added the enhanced realist painter of “Lightscapes” Tom Swimm, the

renowned plein-air painter John Cosby, the unique neo-expressionist

Sandra Jones Campbell and showcasing our newest artist, Brenda

Bredvik.

*Pure Color

(949) 497-1129

570 S. Coast Highway

Featuring powerful images of art in nature with the photographic

art work of Mike Kelly.

*Richard MacDonald Gallery and Sculpture Garden

(949) 497-4988

326 Glenneyre St.

https://www.richardmacdonald.

com

Figurative sculptor, Richard MacDonald, will be showing a diverse

collection of new and retrospective bronze sculpture reflecting his

life-long interest in dancers, athletes, mimes, and Cirque du Soleil

performers.

*[seven-degrees]

(949) 376-1555

891 Laguna Canyon Road

https://www.seven-degrees.com

Group Show: featuring the work of Claremont Graduate School Alumni

and Faculty including Dawn Arrowsmith, Dion Johnson, Keith Lord,

Megan Sherwood, Gina Han, Barbara Kerwin and Roland Reiss. Also

exhibiting Scott Snibbe’s interactive, multi-media electronic

installation with an artist reception Oct. 7.

[seven-degrees] is a multi-media art and event venue that defines

experience. The technology equipped media lounge, an idea lab for the

promotion of artistic endeavor, the gallery and visiting artists

studios are open to the public.

*Sherwood Gallery

(949) 497-2668

460 S. Coast Highway

Introducing New York artist Hamilton Aguiar’s original oil

paintings along with several new artists in ceramics, glass and

sculpture. Featuring contemporary and progressive works of art.

Representing more than 30 artists in mixed media wall sculpture,

paintings, indoor/outdoor sculpture, functional art furniture and

ceramics.

*Wentworth Gallery

(949) 376-3878

305 Forest Ave.

Features art by internationally acclaimed artists including Peter

Max, Howard Behrens, Charles Fazzino, Gary Benfield, Calman Shemi,

David Schluss and Janet Treby also including authenticated works by

Picasso, Miro, Chagall, Dali, Matisse and Renoir.

*William Merrill Gallery

611 S. Coast Highway

(949) 464-0067

Offering an international collection of original fine contemporary

art. The principle interest of the gallery is in reflecting the

diversity and creativity found in Contemporary Modern Art and

Sculpture.

*Win Henstock Gallery

(949) 376-5789

550 S. Coast Highway

Showing California impressionist paintings by Roger Armstrong,

Saim Caglayan, Calvin Liang, Win Henstock and Morgan Samuel Price.

European watercolors by John Yardley and oils by Bruce Yardley.

*World Treasures Gallery

(949) 376-8176

176 S. Coast Highway

Now under new ownership, the gallery features works of art from

around the world. Featuring soapstone and wood sculptures, their

collection consists of vibrant paintings, contemporary sculpture,

ceramics, functional art and furniture. Paintings on clay by J.

Ortiz.

NORTH COAST

HIGHWAY GALLERIES

*California Art Gallery

(949) 494-7270

305 N. Coast Highway, Suite A

Primary focus on early California watercolor artists.

Architectural oils by Beverly Kadlec and watercolor landscapes by

guest artist Margaret Bedell.

*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 an assemblage by Susan Tibbles and new paintings by

Lance Morrison.

*Laguna Art Museum

(949) 494-8971

307 Cliff Drive

https://www.lagunaart museum.org

Laguna Art Museum is featuring “100 Artists See God” through Oct.

2 with renowned curators John Baldessari and Meg Cranston who invited

100 artists to respond to art’s most enduring challenge -- picturing

the divine. “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 artists Hedy Codner and Brian Norkaitis.

*Len Wood’s

Indian Territory, Inc.

(949) 497-5747

305-D N. Coast Highway

Free appraisal night at Art Walk Oct. 7. Bring in your Indian made

items and they will give you a free verbal appraisal of it just like

the “Antiques Road Show.”

*Lu Martin Galleries

(949) 494-8074

372 N. Coast Highway

Featuring original paintings by 10 regional and international

artists including still-life, landscapes, modern figurative,

seascapes and impressionism.

*Marion Meyer

Contemporary Art

(949) 497-5442

354 N. Coast Highway

Marion Meyer Contemporary Art is featuring Quim Bove’s works

“Transcendence -- The Colors of Quim Bove” through Sept. 23.

“Mechanics of the Mind and Other Paintings” by Jacovsky will run

from Thursday to Sept. 23.

*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