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 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 June 3.

*Notes galleries that 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 new paintings by Linda Christensen and Leslie Lusardi.

*Laguna Art Museum

(949) 494-8971

307 Cliff Drive

Laguna Art Museum 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 oils by Jeanne Davis and watercolors by Yoko

Blake. 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

Featuring “Free Appraisal Night,” for Art Walk. Bring in your

Indian made items and they will give a free verbal appraisal just

like the “Antiques Road Show.”

*Lu Martin Galleries

(949) 494-8074

372 N. Coast Highway

Featuring “Gerhard Ruhland, a new collection.”

*Marion Meyer

Contemporary Art

(949) 497-5442

354 N. Coast Highway

Marion Meyer Contemporary Art will have an opening reception for

California neoimpressionist Nancy Pace May 6 from 6 to 9 p.m. to

premiere her latest canvases, “textural Fusion.” Also show are woks

by Eva Carter and sculpture by Jeff Day and Paul Braslow. T

Pace is known for her dramatic use of light and color, has added

an even greater degree of intensity to her work. Bored with

convention, She introduces an innovative approach to impasto,

imparting a tactually seductive an almost sculptural quality to her

distinct renderings of the California floral landscape.

This unique process of paint application, as she describes,

“conducts the images to project a pulsating energy vibration in which

the viewer is held captive, if only for a moment,” and gives one the

illusion of being surrounded by the pictorial flowering fields. The

collection is on display through May 31.

*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 “New Work” by Lynn Welker and Oriental artistry by guest

artist le thu hue.

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 Debby 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 a “Spring Show,” a collection of new works by Marc

Whitney and several other contemporary artists. Renowned painter Ray

Friesz contributes several pieces, representing his more than 40 year

career. Artists in attendance for Art Walk.

SOUTH LAGUNA GALLERIES

*Bluebird Gallery

(949) 497-5377

1540 S. Coast Highway

The Bluebird Gallery has been specializing in California

impressionist paintings for more than 22 years.

*Cove Gallery

(949) 494-1878

1294 S. Coast Highway

Featuring watercolors of the tranquil sea by John McCarty and

mixed media works by Shirley Sullivan.

*DeRu’s Fine Arts

(949) 376-3785

1590 S. Coast Highway

Featuring “Laguna’s Early Art Colony,” with Early California

Impressionist paintings by its founding members. Contemporary

landscape artist David Chapple in attendance for Art Walk.

*Dy’Ans Bahram-B Gallery

(949) 581-9542

1273 S. Coast Highway

Featuring original works of Dy’An’s which includes seascapes,

desertscape and her framed Japanese Koi. Also displaying works by

national and international artists.

*The Esther Wells Collection

(949) 494-2497

1390 S. Coast Highway

“Still Life” An exhibition of still life works by gallery artists.

Introducing oil painter Nancy Carroll.

https://www.estherwells collection.com

*Fil Mottola Gallery

(949) 497-1050

1492 S. Coast Highway No. 8

Featuring American and European academician artists from the 19th

and 20th Century. Featured artist is Fil Mottola. Also featuring the

works of 65 international artists.

Gallery Grace

(949) 376-9951

1966 S. Coast Highway

https://www.gallery-grace.com

*Joseph Wise Fine Art Gallery

(949) 376-7902

1550 S. Coast Highway

The gallery offers one of the world’s finest collection of

serpentine stone sculptures. Original one-of-a-kind sculpture by

internationally acclaimed artist Joseph Muzundoand Dominic Benhura.

The collection includes large contemporary works suitable for indoors

and outdoors. Also on exhibit are original contemporary oil paintings

from California and international artists.

*J. Kamin Fine Art

(949) 494-5076

1590 S. Coast Highway

Beginning 6 years of specializing in post World War II Russian

Impressionist paintings, contemporary American Impressionist

Jacqueline Kamin, Chinese master Shuqiao Zhou, sculptor Nari

Bagdagulyan and introducing contemporary American Impressionist Stacy

Kamin.

Li-Ying & Co.

(949) 376-0525

537 S. Coast Highway

Kaspin is back! Largest new collection of his original oil

paintings. Also featured this month is Robin Altman’s new collection

of prints and oils by Nancy Pace and Elaine Hughes.

*Lynn Peri

(949) 497-6690

1590 S. Coast Highway.

Featuring beautiful etchings by master Italian engravers. Our

artists employ century old techniques to create a unique perspective

of their subject, in styles ranging from precisely detailed to loose

and abstract. Also featuring custom bronze statuary and rare unique

decorative arts.

*Redfern Gallery

(949) 497-3356

1540 S. Coast Highway,

Suite 103 Featuring William Wendt, “The Dean of the Southern California

Artists.” Wendt’s dramatic images of the landscape are presented in

this exhibit of several major paintings that show the progression of

this important painter’s career

Village Gallery

(800) 546-5233

502 S. Coast Highway

The gallery features original pieces and limited editions of work

by Sam Park, Cao Yong and Steve Barton. A collection of work by

artist Stephen Shortridge is on exhibit.