San Pedro’s 1st Thursdays Art Walk features 30 some galleries, whose range of work includes contemporary and textile art. Start at 6th and 7th streets at South Pacific Avenue. If you’re looking for highlights, here are five San Pedro art galleries to check out.
www.the-loft.net
The yellow stucco building, once the early 1900s version of the Laundromat, belies the groundbreaking art inside. Despite the variety of styles in the artists’ collective, color is a unifying factor — bright reds, splashes of boldness, exotic palettes. To say the least, it’s art that’s hard to forget.
www.annieappel.com
With work appearing in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), photographer Annie Appel joins honesty with drama, craft with creativity and subject with personality. Her work exhibits a true love for the art and features both black-and-white and color photography, capturing poignant moments that hit close to home.
www.ancientartsstainedglass.com
The stained glass the artists create at Ancient Arts filters light into majestic beauty, and it’s small wonder that much of the work appears in churches, synagogues and other spiritual institutions. 1st Thursday is an opportunity to see the subtle gracefulness of each
www.medeagallery.com
Whoever thought San Pedro was just a sleepy port town needs to stop by Medea Gallery and check out the riveting new works by its artists. Simply put, they’re pretty damn cool. Visual dreamscapes seem to run throughout the gallery’s works, but each artist — Muriel Olguin, Hiroko Momii and Gia Chikvaize, for instance — stays true to his or her own particular vision of a fantastical world.
www.parkhurstartgalleries.com
Although renowned marine artist Violet Parkhust passed away in 2008, her work still draws ample attention to her San Pedro gallery. Her seascapes and sunsets have sold more than four million copies, some of which came into the ownership of such celebrities as Clark Gable, the King of Saudi Arabia and numerous U.S. presidents.
