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

p.m. and runs until 9 p.m. Information: www.firstthursdaysart

walk.com or (949) 497-0716. The next First Thursday Art Walk will

take place from 6 to 9 p.m. on Feb. 5 and it will be the 6th

anniversary celebration.

*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 David Lyle and Glenn Klegg.

*Laguna Art Museum

(949) 494-8971

307 Cliff Drive

Laguna Art Museum is exhibiting “Rebels in Clay: Peter Voulkos and

the Otis Group.” In the mid-1950s, Voulkos led a revolution in clay

by questioning the tradition that ceramic forms must be functional

and instead created sculptural works that gave the medium a new

freedom of expression. “Feat of Clay: Five Decades of Jerry Rothman”

opens. In the ‘60s Laguna Beach ceramic sculptor Rothman became

well-known nationally for struggling to enlarge the scope of and to

overcome the limitations of ceramics that made it unsuitable for the

sculptural ambitions of the time. The exhibit includes his

controversial large scale triptychs of erotic figures and images of

birth. And “Greetings from Laguna Beach: Our Town in the Early

1900s,” featuring paintings, photographs and memorabilia that

exemplify life in Laguna from circa 1900 to 1930. Information: (949)

494-8971, ext. 0 or https://www.lagunaart museum.org.

*Laguna North Gallery

(949) 494-4324

376 N. Coast Highway

Featured artists: Bob Hall, Elaine Ruettiger, plein air

watercolors by Hedy Codner and Watercolorist Brian Norkaitis, and oil

painter Maggie Jamison.

*Lu Martin Galleries

(949) 494-8074

372 N. Coast Highway

Featuring original paintings by 20 fine artists.

*Marion Meyer

Contemporary Art

(949) 497-5442

354 N. Coast Highway

Group show featuring paintings by Melissa Battersby, Candice

Eisenfeld, Paula Schoen, Vladimir Cora, James Leonard and Quim Bove.

*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

The Quorum Gallery celebrating 40 years in Laguna Beach, exhibits

the works of twelve members and one guest artist. New member Sharyn

Evert paints children, historic buildings and ocean scenes in oil.

*Sandstone Gallery

(949) 497-6775

384A N. Coast Highway

Featuring Judith Anton and Marta Whistler: Co/Motion: Two

Contemporary Painters.

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 Plein Air painting by Laguna artists in residence:

Anderson, Eagle, Weiderman and Wodark. Also showing Cambria, Cram and

Uchizono.

*Whitney Gallery

(949) 497-4322

350 N. Coast Highway

https://www.marcwhitney.com

Marc Whitney and the Whitney Gallery celebrate its 10-year

anniversary with a special exhibition of Whitney’s artwork. Whitney’s

current original works reflect both East Coast and West Coast

influences, a matured but almost indefinable contemporary realism --

a style uniquely his own.

*Vincent Farrell/ Deborah Carman Gallery

(949) 464-9709

305 N. Coast Highway

Vincent Farrell is a long-standing Laguna-California

Impressionist, labeling himself a “Colorist,” has on been in the

Laguna art scene for more than 50 years. He was one of the first

artists to open his own gallery, which continues to exhibit his work.

Debbie Carman draws, paints and sculpts whimsical cats and dogs and

unique colorful fine decorative sculpture.

*Len Wood’s

Indian Territory, Inc.

(949) 497-5747

305-D N. Coast Highway

Featuring “Rugs and Posts,” exploring the evolution of Navajo

weaving from the late 19th Century shoulder blankets to early 20th

Century Trading Post rugs.

SOUTH LAGUNA GALLERIES

*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.

*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 “Art is a Gift,” small paintings in grand style. Meet

artists Joan Clark and Shirley Sullivan.

*DeRu’s Fine Arts

(949) 376-3785

1590 S. Coast Highway

Featuring “Delightful Glimpses,” small paintings by historical

early California Impressionist painters and contemporary landscape

artist David Chapple.

*The Esther Wells Collection

(949) 494-2497

1390 S. Coast Highway

Featuring “In My Mind’s Eye,” original new works by Steven DeLair.

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.

*Wendt Gallery

(949) 497-4292

1550 S. Coast Highway, Suites 101 and 102

https://www.wendtgallery.com

Featuring their “2nd Annual Women’s Show.”

*Vladimir Sokolov Gallery

(949) 494-3633

1540 S. Coast Highway

Sokolov Gallery has been doing business in Laguna Beach since

1980. It features unique mixed-media abstract paintings by Vladimir

Sokolov, abstract expressionist paintings by emerging artist

Alexander Sokolov and acrylic sculptures by Vasa.

*Watercolor Gallery

(949) 494-8838

1492 S. Coast Highway, No. 7

Featuring florals by artist Christine Kenny.

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

Original one-of-a-kind sculpture by internationally acclaimed

artist Joseph Muzundo. Mixed media vignettes of Cirque du Soleil

artist “Vital” of Zaire. Featuring sculptures by Dominic Benhura and

nudes by Sergio of Chili. The gallery offers one of the world’s

finest collection of serpentine stone sculptures, including museum

quality sculptures by master artists, Dominic Benhura and Nicholas

Mukomberanwa. Collection includes large contemporary works suitable

for indoors and outdoors. Also exhibiting acclaimed French Limoges

painter, Jacques-Jean Boiredon of the Loire Valley. Boiredon’s works

are exclusive to France and their gallery. The gallery also has

original oil figurative nudes by Sergio of Chili.

*J. Kamin Fine Art

(949) 494-5076

1590 S. Coast Highway

J. Kamin Fine Art specializes in Post World War II Russian

Impressionist paintings from the 1940s to the 1980s. Also featuring

still life and landscape paintings by contemporary American

Impressionist, Jacqueline Kamin, genre paintings by Chinese Master

Shuqiao Zhou and introducing sculptor, Nairi Bagdagulyn.

L. Marconi Gallery

(949) 497-8825

1999 S. Coast Highway

Open by appointment only.

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.