ARTCETERA

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.

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

Janet Blake, Laguna Art Museum curator of collections, will

conduct a lecture at 1 p.m. Sunday on the current exhibition,

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

1832-1925.”

Lectures are free to museum members and free for nonmembers with

museum admission.

* “While Pollock Was Sleeping: Bay Area Abstract Expressionism

from the Blair Collection” runs through Oct. 2.

* “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. * “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, features paintings, photographs and

memorabilia that exemplify life in Laguna Beach from 1900 to 1930.

Artists represented include William Wendt, Joseph Kleitsch, and Anna

Hills.

Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive. Information: (949) 494-8971 or

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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 and tropical and local scenes. .

*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.

*Marion Meyer

Contemporary Art

(949) 497-5442

354 N. Coast Highway

Marion Meyer Contemporary Art is continuing the Eva Carter show,

“Emotions on Motion,” through Saturday and is also featuring

“Constance E. Scopelitis: Contemporary Portraiture.” Scopelitis is a

narrative figure painter.

*Moz International

(949) 376-5121

673 N. Coast Highway

Featuring Carlos Albert, “Latest Sculptures.”

*Peter Blake Gallery

(949) 376-9994

326 N. Coast Highway

Featuring Eric Johnson and Todd Brainard. The Peter Blake Gallery

on North Laguna’s historic Gallery Row has been a definitive source

for modern and contemporary art since 1992.

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Len Wood’s Indian

Territory, Inc.

(949) 497-5747

305-D N. Coast Highway

*Quorum Art Gallery

(949) 494-4422

374 N. Coast Highway

A cooperative gallery featuring the works of 12 artists, including

works by Ethel Alvy, an American modernist. Her landscapes evoke a

strong sense of place verging on distraction.

*Sandstone Gallery

(949) 497-6775

384A N. Coast Highway

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f7Exhibiting in September featured artist Anne Moore’s monotypes,

“A Documented Journey”; guest artist Helen L. Bell’s metal wall

sculptures and mixed-media paintings, “Blurred Boundaries II”; and

returning artist Jamie Tobey-Kiendra’s watercolor and acrylic

paintings, “Tapestries.”

Schaar Galleries Ltd.

(949) 497-7289

484 N. Coast Highway

www.schaargalleries.com.

*Studio 7 Gallery

(949) 497-1080

384B N. Coast Highway

Oil painting demonstrations by local plein-air artists in

residence: Eagle, Robinson and Wodark, Cram, Anderson, Saltzman and

Uchizono.