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 Oct. 7.

Pre- Art Walk event at Richard MacDonald gallery at 5:30 p.m. Oct.

7. Live music by Jason Feddy.

*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 inspired and eclectic works with a theme

of “Fall in the Air.”

*DeRu’s Fine Arts

(949) 376-3785

1590 S. Coast Highway

Featuring “Impressionist Landscapes: California and Beyond by

early California Impressionists. Also featuring works by contemporary

artist David Chapple.

*Contemporary Chinese Fine Art

(949) 376-6799

1099 S. Coast Highway

Featuring new landscapes by Wang Yimin -- magically illuminated

fantasy versions of his many trips to Northern China. Also exhibits

by 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

Featuring a demonstration by artist Jan Magdaleno for Art Walk.

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

Featuring the finest collection of Zimbabwean sculpture in the

United States. Works by two of the greatest stone carvers in the

world -- Nicholas Mukomberanwa and Sylvester Mubayi.

*J. Kamin Fine Art

(949) 494-5076

1590 S. Coast Highway

New paintings by Jacqueline Kamin featuring still life and plein

air landscape. Champagne reception 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 2. 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 original artwork by Belgian artist Bruno Vekemans,

exhibiting powerful and poetic “cultural images” that portray people

or some relationship to them. 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

Featuring recent acquisitions by Guy Rose, Edgar Payne and

Granville Redmond.

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.

*The Vintage Poster

1476 South Coast Highway

(949) 376-7422

Featuring “Paying Homage to Jules Cheret,” a prolific posterist

and a printer. Cheret was the first t establish a printing house for

advertising posters in the 1890s.

*Vladimir Sokolov Gallery

(949) 494-3633

1540 S. Coast Highway

Featuring contemporary, unique mixed media collage and acrylic

paintings by Vladimir Sokolov; acrylic paintings by Alexander Sokolov

and laminated acrylic sculpture by Vasa.

*Watercolor Gallery

(949) 494-8838

1492 S. Coast Highway, No. 7

Featuring Christine Kenny’s collection of “Florals, Still Life and

Fall Harvest.”

*Wendt Gallery

(949) 497-4292

1550 S. Coast Highway, Suites 101 and 102

https://www.wendtgallery.com

Exhibiting its “Annual Women, Wine and Roses Show,” featuring the

finest women artists coast to coast.

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. New paintings by

Caroline Zimmerman “Passages in Time,” runs through Oct. 31 with a

special reception at Art Walk Oct. 7.

*Greenwood/

Chebithes Gallery

(949) 494-0669

330 N. Coast Highway

Featuring new works by Sherry Karver, Tessa Mecham and Lois

Silver.

*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 Chuck Best and Jeanne Davis.

*Len Wood’s

Indian Territory, Inc.

(949) 497-5747

305-D N. Coast Highway

Free appraisal night at Art Walk Oct. 7. 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 new works by Alfredo Gomez -- “Wine Series.” Also

featuring works by Stephen Shortridge, Mostafa Keyhani, Lu Martin,

Don Langford, Lin Hua Zheg, Ruo Li, Gerhard Ruhland, A. Karapetian

and Xiaoen Wang.

*Marion Meyer

Contemporary Art

(949) 497-5442

354 N. Coast Highway

Marion Meyer Contemporary Art is featuring recent paintings by

prominent Mexican artist Guillermo Ceniceros. Exclusive engagement in

association with the Guillermo Ceniceros Museum of Durango, Mexico.

Artist reception on Art Walk Oct. 7.

*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

Featuring twelve artists presenting a variety of artwork

expressions. Ron Kawezynski features palette knife textures and depth

of composition.

*Sandstone Gallery

(949) 497-6775

384A N. Coast Highway

Featuring “Mindscapes -- Celestial Skies and Mythical Mountains”

by Mada Leach and “Color and Texture by guest artist Genevieve

Wexler.

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, Robinson and Wodark

with artist painting demonstrations and live guitar performance by Ed

Krajec for Art Walk on Oct. 7.

*Deborah Carman Gallery

(949) 464-9709

305 N. Coast Highway

Featuring new works by Deborah Carman including paintings,

graphics and whimsical ceramic animals and unique decorative

sculptures.

*Whitney Gallery

(949) 497-4322

350 N. Coast Highway

https://www.marcwhitney.com

Featuring the works of prominent artist Marc Whitney, whose

eclectic, highly personal style encompasses such themes as figures,

interiors, landscapes and still life. Also exhibiting other artists,

including Ray Friesz, Mark Kerckhoff and Peggi Kroll-Roberts.

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 a photography exhibition by

local photographer Milano Liberi. Liberi has a passion for travel and

exploration into western landscapes and likes to capture that in

black and white, responding to the natural beauty he immerses himself

in while studying nature. He likes to capture the west’s mountains,

deserts, canyons, rivers, waterfalls, lakes and coastline at specific

times of the year. The gallery is directed by Fitz Maurice. The

Sawdust Festival and Festival of Arts are on continuous exhibit

through this program. Information: (949) 497-2234.

Coffin/Fulton Fine Art

(949) 497-2214

301 Forest Ave.

Featuring plein air landscapes and figurative work of A. Jane

Fulton and Lesanne Pelle Coffin.

The Crystal Image

(949) 497-3399

225 Forest Ave.

Featuring one of the world’s largest natural arts gallery with

world class gem art, museum quality home decor, as well as fossils,

minerals, meteorites and gem and mineral jewelry.