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: http://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 a two-person exhibition with Kenna Moser and Greg Skol.
*Laguna Art Museum
(949) 494-8971
307 Cliff Drive
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.
http://www.lagunaart museum.org.
*Laguna North Gallery
(949) 494-4324
376 N. Coast Highway
This month featuring acrylics by Chuck Best and watercolors by
Brian Norkaitis. 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 "Walk in Beauty," the history and evolution of the 19th
Century Navajo blanket.
*Lu Martin Galleries
(949) 494-8074
372 N. Coast Highway
Featuring new works by California Impressionist Don Langford.
*Marion Meyer
Contemporary Art
(949) 497-5442
354 N. Coast Highway
