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: 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 April 1.

*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 recent paintings by Timothy Berry and Joseph Maruska.

*Laguna Art Museum

(949) 494-8971

307 Cliff Drive

Featuring for Art Walk, April 1, Artists in Action: Laguna

Outreach Community Arts hands-on workshops and demonstrations 6 to 8

p.m.

Laguna Art Museum recently 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 watercolors and oils by Jeanne Davis. Oils

and watercolors by Patti Cliffton. 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

For Art Walk, April 1, Free Appraisal Night. Bring in your

Indian-made item(s) and they will give you a free verbal appraisal of

it just like “Antiques Roadshow.”

*Lu Martin Galleries

(949) 494-8074

372 N. Coast Highway

Discover Armenak Ranapetian -- a new artist from Prague.

*Marion Meyer

Contemporary Art

(949) 497-5442

354 N. Coast Highway

Featuring artist reception for Melissa Battersby’s show “A New

Life”

*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 “Textures” collage by Marge Chapman and “Sheer

Luminosity,” delicate layers of pearlescent metallic paint shimmer

across the canvas, by guest artist Brian Allen.

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 Debbie 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 the works of prominent artist Marc Whitney, whose work

reflects East and West Coast influences. His eclectic, highly

personal style encompasses such themes are figures, landscape, still

life and interiors.

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 “Animal Chemistry,” an exhibit

of local artists who are compassionate about animals. The exhibit

will focus on animal life and increase the awareness about the

positive work at Laguna Beach Animal Shelter. The show will open with

an artist reception from 4 to 6 p.m. April 1. All sales of art will

donate 15% to PRC, which is a nonprofit group that helps the shelter

with supplies. To attend, donations of any size are required. The

Sawdust Festival and Festival of Arts are on continuous exhibit

through this program. For information, call (949) 497-2234.