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 at

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 Sept. 2.

*Notes galleries that participate in the First Thursday 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 an exhibition of their gallery artists.

*DeRu’s Fine Arts

(949) 376-3785

1590 S. Coast Highway

Featuring “Early California Impressionists: Painting the Light and

Color of the California Landscape.” And works by artist David

Chapple.

*Contemporary Chinese Fine Art

(949) 376-6799

1099 S. Coast Highway

Exhibits feature top contemporary realist artists from Mainland

China, carrying only original oil paintings by masters of realism,

including still-lifes, figurative and landscapes.

*The Esther Wells Collection

(949) 494-2497

1390 S. Coast Highway

The gallery will be highlighting the various permanent artists and

their works.

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 a collection of serpentine stone sculptures.

Original one-of-a-kind sculptures by internationally acclaimed artist

Joseph Muzundo and Dominic Benhura are on display. 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

Presenting an important collection of post World War II Russian

Impressionism. Featuring plein air landscape, figurative and

industrial scenes by painters Nikolai Timkov, Alexi Belykh and

Vladimir Danilynuk.

Li-Ying & Co.

(949) 376-0525

537 S. Coast Highway

Kaspin is back! The gallery has the 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 Albert Dudley Buchanan’s “Steel Fantasy,” his latest

contemporary, polished steel sculpture show. A Southern California

artist, his creations exemplify a simple beauty and grace in their

reflective angularity. The show runs through Aug. 15.

The gallery is exhibiting etchings by master Italian engravers.

Their artists employ century old techniques to create a unique

perspective of their subject, in styles ranging from precisely

detailed to loose and abstract. And custom bronze statuary and rare

unique decorative arts.

*Redfern Gallery

(949) 497-3356

1540 S. Coast Highway,

Suite 103 https://www.redferngallery.com

“The Masters” a collection of works by Guy Rose, Edgar Payne and

William Wendt.

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.

*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 collage and acrylic paintings by

Vladimir Sokolov, acrylic paintings by Alaexander Sokolov and

laminated acrylic sculptures by Vasa.

*Watercolor Gallery

(949) 494-8838

1492 S. Coast Highway, No. 7

Featuring Dick Halbert’s “Grape Vineyards and Landscapes of

Mendocino.”

*Wendt Gallery

(949) 497-4292

1550 S. Coast Highway, Suites 101 and 102

https://www.wendtgallery.com

Featuring a “Small Painting Exhibition” with works by Karl

Dempwolf, Jove Wang, Craig Nelson, Rita Roberts and more.

NORTH COAST

HIGHWAY GALLERIES

*California Art Gallery

(949) 494-7270

305 N. Coast Highway, Suite A

Primary focus on early California watercolor artists.

Architectural oils by Beverly Kadlec and watercolor landscapes by

guest artist Margaret Bedell.

*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 Patrick LoCicero and Paul Brigham and

collages by Gary Nisbet.

*Laguna Art Museum

(949) 494-8971

307 Cliff Drive

https://www.lagunaart museum.org

Laguna Art Museum is featuring “100 Artists See God” through Oct.

2 with renowned curators John Baldessari and Meg Cranston who invited

100 artists to respond to art’s most enduring challenge -- picturing

the divine. “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 artists Laurie Downey and Pam Pannatoni.

*Len Wood’s

Indian Territory, Inc.

(949) 497-5747

305-D N. Coast Highway

Free appraisal night at Art Walk Sept. 2. Bring in your Indian

made items and they will give you a free verbal appraisal of it just

like the “Antiques Road Show.”

*Lu Martin Galleries

(949) 494-8074

372 N. Coast Highway

Featuring original paintings by 10 regional and international

artists including still-life, landscapes, modern figurative,

seascapes and impressionism.

*Marion Meyer

Contemporary Art

(949) 497-5442

354 N. Coast Highway

Marion Meyer Contemporary Art is featuring Quim Bove’s works

“Transcendence -- The Colors of 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