Every variety of art from the most abstract to fine art wildlife photography was exhibited at participating art galleries with visiting artists at the June 3 First Friday La Jolla Art Walk.<\/p>\n
The art walks returned by popular demand to the Village of La Jolla in December 2021. Katey Kalanges, director at Lik Fine Art La Jolla, and a member of La Jolla Village Merchant Association\u2019s board, chairs the monthly event.<\/p>\n
LGBTQ+ Pride was chosen as the theme for the event because June is Pride Month, which celebrates the worldwide influence of LGBTQ+ people. June was also the month when the Stonewall Riots took place in 1969, ushering in the start of the gay rights movement.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst Fridays are not just about art and artists, it is about partnerships and community,\u201d said Jodi Rudick, LJVMA executive director. \u201cFirst Friday Art Walk is a true collaboration. Not only are over 16 galleries taking part each month, but many galleries have also developed creative partnerships.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rudick noted Village restaurants often sponsor gallery food and beverages at participating La Jolla art galleries, which have included Mermaids and Cowboys, Eddie V\u2019s, Catania, Lobster West, and Cove House, even brand-new Java Earth.<\/p>\n
\u201cReal estate agents and chiropractors have sponsored galleries by helping with costs, serving refreshments, and creating a friendly, welcoming atmosphere,\u201d said Rudick. \u201cWe\u2019re also thrilled to have developed an ongoing partnership with the San Diego Spirits Festival, which has been providing unique beverages and spirits to guests. All La Jolla businesses can partner with a gallery to lend a hand, and share costs while meeting new potential customers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rudick said upcoming art walk themes will be red, white, and blues for July. In August, the theme will involve Akuna Matata in partnership with Disney\u2019s musical production of \u201cThe Lion King.\u201d<\/p>\n
A tour of the June 3 First Friday Art Walk was memorable as guests dined on hors d\u2019oeuvres, sipped wine, and mingled with gallery owners, artists, and their guests.<\/p>\n
Robert J. Leyh, San Diego Pride programs manager, was among six gay organizations represented at the art walk. He and others hosted a gay trivia game set up outside Pacific Sotheby\u2019s International Realty at 1111 Prospect St.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re here because this is June and June is Pride Month,\u201d said Leyh. \u201cThey (LJVMA) reached out to a couple of organizations and we said, \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s go up there, play a fun trivia game, give out some little prizes, and have some fun.\u2019 It\u2019s about being present in the community. We\u2019re more than just Hillcrest. We\u2019re all of San Diego.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inside Pacific Sotheby\u2019s, mom-daughter artistic team Geraldine Hummel and her daughter, Dr. Giselle Catalina, were being sponsored by the business. They unveiled their Scapes Collection.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been painting for 25 years and I just decided to sort of go full-time (in art) now,\u201d said Hummel. Speaking of her inspiration and her artistic palette Hummel noted: \u201cI\u2019ve always lived along the coast and I like the ocean and the sky,\u201d adding about her color scheme, \u201cI like turquoise a lot. My colors, I like them to be brighter. I\u2019m more of a contemporary artist, not fine art, so I want my paintings to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Martin Lawrence Galleries around the corner at 1111 Prospect St., gallery director Brenda Klippel-Stores noted the paintings of artist Rene Lalonde will be here \u201ctill the end of the month\u201d while adding that \u201ceverything else changes constantly. We\u2019ve been here since 2007, but the company\u2019s been in business for 40 years. We have modern masters and pop artists, as well as contemporary artists that we represent.\u201d They treated guests to chocolates.<\/p>\n
Tammy Tillack of Artemis Fine Art Gallery at 1152 Prospect St. noted her gallery \u201csupports professional artists and National Geographic photographers from around the world.\u201d She added, \u201cAll our artists support conservation efforts for our planet. We also have painters, sculptors, and glass artists from all over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery at 7946 Ivanhoe Ave. was featuring the sculpture work of Tom Marosz. \u201cI do glass,\u201d he said of his laminated sculptures reflecting light like a prism. \u201cPart of what makes mine (sculptures) different from others is the coating on here that causes the colors to change. All the color comes from the coating that is put on it.\u201d Marosz named one of his glass sculptures \u201cElla,\u201d for the jazz musician he listens to while he works.<\/p>\n
Art consultant Nicole Eilemberg of Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery at 7946 Ivanhoe Ave. noted, \u201cWe were one of the first art galleries in La Jolla,\u201d adding, \u201cWe get awards every year for just maintaining quality and (keeping) the artists that we\u2019ve represented through the decades. You have to have a relationship with your artists.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roree Mayhew of Legends Gallery Fine Art of La Jolla at 1205 Prospect St., Suite B, said that \u201cabout half the gallery is dedicated to Dr. Seuss and two other artists as well, (Snoopy) artist Tom Everhart, who does the Peanuts work here, and MacKenzie Thorpe, an artist from the UK who\u2019s been showing internationally for about 30 years now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The artwork exhibited at Modernist Cuisine Gallery at 1241 Prospect St. was really something to behold featuring Daliesque photos by Nathan Myhrvold of food and drink in motion: Beer sloshing into a mug, scoops of ice cream cascading into a cone.<\/p>\n
Guests were transfixed by the breathtakingly beautiful fine art photos at Images of Nature Gallery at 7916 Girard Ave. Those images were painstakingly captured by wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen, whose work has been featured on \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Krista Schumacher Art Gallery at 1113 Wall St. featured the work of another mother-daughter artistic team, Kathy and Krista Schumacher (above). \u201cKrista is a heavy texture oil palette knife painter,\u201d said Kathy. \u201cShe (Kathy) taught me to oil paint when I was 16, and now we are both professional oil painters,\u201d said gallery owner Krista, who added, \u201cEvery year we do one painting together on the same canvas.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year that joint painting taking up nearly an entire wall was titled \u201cDesert Oasis.\u201d \u201cWe created it at the same time, both working side-by-side, and we just released it,\u201d noted Krista adding \u201cThis is year number three,\u201d referring to her artistic collaboration with her mom.<\/p>\n
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