ART WALK Join more than 40 galleries...

ART WALK

Join more than 40 galleries throughout Laguna Beach on Thursday

for a festive cultural evening from 6 to 9 p.m. Free shuttle service

starts from the Laguna Art Museum at 6:15 and runs until 9 p.m.

Information: www.firstthursdaysartwalk.com or (949) 683-6871.

(*Denotes galleries that participate in the First Thursday Art Walk.)

The next Art Walk will be on Oct. 6.

LAGUNA ART MUSEUM

“While Pollock Was Sleeping: Bay Area Abstract Expressionism from

the Blair Collection” runs through Oct. 2.

The Blair Collection provides a rich view of California Abstract

Expressionist painting from 1948 to 1964. The collection includes a

few easily recognizable names, but many of the works in the

exhibition are by lesser-known artists who are equally significant to

the “second wave” of Abstract Expressionist painting.

“California Art from the Permanent Collection: Part I, The

Beginning, 1832-1925” is the first of three exhibits that focus on

art from the museum’s permanent collection, which holds works ranging

from the early 19th century to today. This first exhibit, which runs

through Oct. 2, traces art in California from the earliest paintings,

which were mostly descriptive, primitive landscapes, to the romantic

landscapes in Northern California, to the advent of impressionism in

Southern California, and, finally, to the various modernist movements

that followed.

“Surf Culture Redux” is on exhibit through Oct. 5. “Surf Culture

Redux” is a reconfiguration of the iconic works from the museum’s

most well-attended show in its history, “Surf Culture -- The Art

History of Surfing.” “Greetings from Laguna Beach: Our Town in the

Early 1900s,” on view indefinitely in the Stein-Brief Gallery, is a

reprise of the museum’s popular 2003 exhibition. The exhibition

features paintings, photographs and memorabilia that exemplify life

in Laguna Beach from 1900 to 1930. Artists represented include

William Wendt, Joseph Kleitsch, Clarence Hinkle, Edgar Payne and Anna

Hills.

Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive. For information, call (949)

494-8971 or visit o7www.lagunaartmuseum.org.f7

NORTH COAST HIGHWAY GALLERIES

California Art Gallery

(949) 494-7270

305 N. Coast Highway, Suite A

Primary focus on early California watercolor artists.

*Gallery McCollum

(949) 497-4027

206 N. Coast Highway

Gallery McCollum specializes in original landscape paintings of

Italy and France, tropical and local scenes, featuring artists

Caroline Zimmerman, Patrick Tobin, Michael Logan, David Solomon and

Michael Obermeyer.

*Greenwood/

Chebithes Gallery

(949) 494-0669

330 N. Coast Highway

Featuring artists Paul Brigham, Joseph Maruska and Logan Wood.

*Laguna North Gallery

(949) 494-4324

376 N. Coast Highway

Featuring oils by Margaret Jamison and Pamela Panattoni.

*Lu Martin Galleries

(949) 494-8074

372 N. Coast Highway

Featuring new mixed media abstract paintings by Greg Martin.