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"Places You've Never Been" is open through November 30 on Gallery Row in the beautiful town of Laguna Beach. Meet LYNN WELKER to celebrate the second month of her Featured Artist Show in our windows and throughout the gallery's entire lower floor. Meet LYNN WELKER tonight to celebrate the second month of her Featured Artist Show in our windows and throughout the gallery's entire lower floor. Laguna Beach Art Walk, 6- 9 p.m., Nov 5.

November 2-30, 2026
United States
Laguna Beach, CA, USA

After decades in advertising, Sherry returned fully to painting, reconnecting with her foundation in observation, drawing, and sustained looking. Her practice emphasizes patience and concentration, resisting generalization in favor of nuanced perception. She is particularly interested in color, shape, light, space, and brushstroke as formal problems explored through careful adjustment.

November 2-30, 2026
United States
Laguna Beach, CA

Muck Teaching Artist of over twenty years, Young Shin Kim, is the winner of this year’s Dr. James Young Arts Legacy Award. This gallery exhibit of her ceramics is curated by her friend and colleague Marsha Judd.

November 15, 2026 - January 2, 2027
Muckenthaler Cultural Center
Fullerton, CA

From early works in photography and sculpture to films and newly commissioned immersive installations, Julian Charrière: Deep End demonstrates Julian Charrière's more than a decade-long engagement with the aesthetic and political dimensions of the natural world, considering how geological time, human history and reparative futures interrelate.

November 15, 2026 – June 6, 2027
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Los Angeles, CA

View with a Grain of Sand is an exhibition of paintings that explores perception, landscape and the human desire to impose meaning on the natural world.

October 3, 2026 – January 18, 2027
Laguna Art Museum
Laguna Beach, CA

November 13, 2026 – March 1, 2027
Norton Simon Museum
Pasadena, CA

Tokio Ueyama: The Hollows Between Mountains centers on the work of Japanese artist Tokio Ueyama (1889–1954), who was based in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo.

September 26, 2026 – February 28, 2027
UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art
Costa Mesa, CA

What Fearful Shadows is a contemporary art exhibition that reimagines iconic elements of early American horror—The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the Salem Witch Trials, and the works of Edgar Allan Poe—through the lens of modern culture.

October 10 - December 13, 2026
Brea Art Gallery
Brea, CA

This selection of painted and sculpted portraits by such artists as Gainsborough, Goya, and David explore the interplay of status, character, and identity in an age of global encounter.

September 15, 2026 – March 14, 2027
Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA

Otherworldly: Science Fiction Art from The Hilbert Collection explores how California artists shaped popular visions of the future through painting, illustration, animation and entertainment art.

November 18, 2026 – May 2027
Hilbert Museum of California Art
Orange, CA

As the Hilbert Museum celebrates its 10th anniversary, visitors themselves become the guest curators in this special exhibition featuring the artworks they have loved most over the past decade.

September 30, 2026 – March 7, 2027
Hilbert Museum of California Art
Orange, CA

Locos X brings together the California Locos Collective—founded by Dave Tourjé—and celebrated artists Chaz Bojórquez, John Van Hamersveld, Norton Wisdom, and Gary Wong, whose work bridges fine art and popular culture.

May 22 - September 12, 2027
Fullerton Museum Center
Fullerton, CA

From a collection courtesy of Yo and Ingrid Harita, Small Wonders: The Art of Japanese Kokeshi invites viewers into the craftsmanship and whimsy of traditional Japanese folk art.

October 29 - December 19, 2026
Fullerton Museum Center
Fullerton, CA

JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present Architects of Motion, a dynamic exhibition featuring new works by John “CRASH” Matos and Matt Devine.

November 15, 2026 - January 15, 2027
JoAnne Artman Gallery
Laguna Beach, CA

LYNN WELKER’s Featured Artist Show is on view in our windows and across the entire lower floor of the gallery. Lynn’s richly layered paintings are abstracted landscapes, imagined places that often spark a surprising sense of recognition—visitors frequently find themselves reminded of a place they know. Lynn’s show runs now through November 30.

Join us for First Thursdays Art Walk on Thursday, October 1, from 6–9 PM and experience Lynn’s work in person. Join us again on November 5 for an artist reception.


September 30-November 30
United States
Laguna Beach, CA, USA