Thomas Hunt: California Modernist features about fifty paintings by the masterful, innovative colorist whose distinctive style is characterized by broad brushwork and bold effects of light and reflection. Hunt was active with the Laguna Beach Art Association and is best known for the coastal and harbor scenes that he painted in Southern California and during regular visits to Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Etchings by Mildred Bryant Brooks is selected from Laguna Art Museum’s collection of forty-four of Brooks’s etchings. Active throughout the 1930s and into the early 1940s, Brooks is known especially for her landscape etchings, in which lovingly observed trees often occupy center stage.

Laurie Brown: Photographs. The Newport Beach-based artist has documented mankind’s relationship to the landscape in its less comfortable forms, dwelling especially on zones that form a no-man’s-land between the man-made and the natural. The exhibition features works from the 1970s onward, with the series Las Vegas Periphery, Views from the Edge as its centerpiece.