1504 SOUTH COAST HWY
LAGUNA BEACH, CA
Entrance on Calliope St.
(925) 408-2907
Open by appointment.
INTO THE BLUE
INTO THE BLUE
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Sunday, October 18, 2026
1pm to 4pm -
October 18 – December 12, 2026
We’re open by appointment.
A story about depth. Featuring artwork by Arline Mathieu, Maureen Meyer, Oriana Poindexter, Carmen Salazar, Ryan Snow, and Sean W. Spellman.
Below the surface, we glimpse another world. One that is different from our own, yet unmistakably familiar. We are weightless. We are held. We are somehow closer to ourselves. The blue is in us, and around us. Waves tumble our thoughts away, revealing peace and presence. A memory, a dream, an effortless pull. The blue summons us, then sends us back to shore.
Oriana Poindexter is an American-Italian photographic artist and marine scientist whose academic background spans photography, fisheries, and marine conservation. She dives, photographs, and collects specimens to create photo-based works that document the ocean’s shifting ecosystems. Her process, rooted in both traditional and alternative photographic techniques, results in light-formed records that engage viewers in contemplating the relationship between humans and the sea.
2026
24" x 20"
Silver gelatin print framed with museum glass
$1,950
Unique lumen print created with giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) collected while freediving off Horseshoe Beach, La Jolla, CA, on March 20, 2026. Sun exposure on silver gelatin paper.
2025
24" x 20"
Silver gelatin print framed with museum glass
$1,950
Unique lumen print created with bull kelp (Nereocystis leutkeana) collected in Otter Rock, OR on August 13, 2025. Sun exposure on silver gelatin paper.
2026
24" x 20"
Silver gelatin print framed with museum glass
$1,950
Unique lumen print created with elkhorn kelp (Pelagophycus porra) collected while freediving off Horseshoe Beach, La Jolla, CA, on March 20, 2026. Sun exposure on silver gelatin paper.
2025
24" x 20"
Silver gelatin print framed with museum glass
$1,950
Original lumen print created with rainbow leaf (Mazzaella splendens) collected by the artist from the intertidal zone in Boiler Bay, Oregon, on June 13, 2025. Collected in collaboration with researchers during an artist residency at OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center in summer 2025.
2025
21" x 25"
Silver gelatin print framed with museum glass
$2,300
Original lumen print. Pressed algae collected by the artist during an an artist residency at OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center in summer 2025. The species in the image represent red algae.
2025
25.5" x 33"
Cyanotype on paper framed with museum glass
$3,200
Original cyanotype on paper. Pressed algae collected by the artist during an an artist residency at OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center in summer 2025. The species in the image represent the red algae.
2024
15" x 19"
Cyanotype on paper framed with museum glass
$1,400
Cyanotype photogram created with Hydroclathrus clathratus, collected by the artist while freediving off Descanso Beach, Catalina Island, California on May 9, 2024.
2024
23" x 29"
Cyanotype on paper framed with museum glass
$2,400
Cyanotype photogram created with Hydroclathrus clathratus collected by the artist while freediving off Descanso Beach, Catalina Island, California on May 12, 2024.
2022
20" x 24"
Cyanotype on paper framed with museum glass
$2,100
Unique cyanotype on paper. Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) collected by the artist while freediving off Point La Jolla, August 27, 2022.
2025
28" x 22"
Cyanotype on paper framed with museum glass
$2,400
Cyanotype photogram on paper created with bladder chain kelp (Stephanocystis osmundacea) collected by the artist while freediving off Descanso Beach, Catalina Island on April 13, 2025.
2021
25" x 33"
Cyanotype on paper framed with museum glass
$3,200
Walking Kelp (Pterygophora californica), La Jolla, California. Contact cyanotype print made with algae collected by the artist in with algae collected in La Jolla, California.
2023
66.5" x 60"
Cyanotype on raw canvas framed with museum glass
$6,200
Exposure made with giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) collected by the artist while freediving off Point La Jolla, California on March 19, 2023.
Arline Mathieu’s art, which draws inspiration from her decades-long Buddhist meditation practice and from the natural world, is further informed by science and world or life events. Her drawing-paintings on view at Folklore are from a series influenced by scientific discoveries of the presence of water on Mars and on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. The series explores the possibility of forms of life arising in these or other watery environments. With ink, watercolor, fine-line pens, and color pencils, Arline presents a universe in flux, with phenomena emerging and ever-changing.
2023
35" x 28"
Watercolor, pen, ink, and colored pencil on paper, framed with museum glass
$8,500
2023
35" x 28"
Watercolor and ink on paper, framed with museum glass
$8,500
2022
27.5" x 29"
Watercolor, pen, and ink on paper, framed with museum glass
$6,500
2022
27.5" x 29"
Watercolor, pen, and ink on paper, framed with museum glass
$6,500
2022
28" x 35"
Watercolor, pen, ink, and colored pencil on paper, framed with museum glass
$8,500
2020
21.5" x 20"
Watercolor, pen, ink, and colored pencil on paper, framed with museum glass
$4,000
2022
27.5" x 29"
Watercolor, pen, and ink on paper, framed with museum glass
$6,500
Maureen Meyer is a visual artist and painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She is inspired by her background in fashion and textile design. Her process begins with fabric experimentations, working with indigo dye and earth pigments while using various resist dye and painting techniques. She often incorporates aspects of nature and flora to create a resist pattern on the fabric. The materials are then draped and stitched, composing a balance of tension and delicacy with a sculptural quality. In this series of paintings the materials guide her process, allowing the shape and texture of the textiles to evolve naturally while accentuating the inherent beauty of the fabric.
2026
22” x 18”
Indigo dye on stitched canvas
$3,200
2026
22” x 18”
Indigo dye on stitched canvas
$3,200
Ryan Alexandre Snow is an abstract minimalist artist whose painting work explores the balance of peaceful mind inspired by nature, color, symmetry and resonance. His current body of work consists of organic shapes of color overlapping on raw canvas in perfect spacial harmony within the frame creating a feeling of zen. With a focus on the total resonance of each piece, his practice has evolved to include foraging nature for earth pigment to make his own natural paints, and collecting unique rare pigments from around the globe.
2025
41” x 41”
Earth pigment water-color on natural canvas, framed in maple
$5,800
Sean W. Spellman is a New England native who spent nearly a decade of his formative years living and working in various American cities: Portland, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and now in the sleepy coastal town of Westerly, RI. He has crossed the country more than two dozen times, many of them solo, documenting his journeys in paintings, drawings, photographs, and song. These "interpretations" serve as self-proclaimed personal inspiration to "keep moving" and as conceptual documents of the many places a person might dream of calling home.
2025
57" x 55.5"
Oil and acrylic on canvas
$6,500
2026
33" x 41"
Oil and acrylic on canvas, framed
$4,500
A curious hybrid of urban and rural, Carmen Salazar is a recipe that calls for equal parts concrete and pasture, glass and steel and rough-hewn beams. Growing up, she spent her time shuttling between her family's farm in West Virginia and the vibrant, diverse cultures of her home in Washington, D.C. Her father's Puerto Rican background and mother's Slovak heritage further instilled a deep appreciation for diversity in her from an early age. Bridging distinct worlds and honoring their unique elements governs her life outlook and directly informs her artistic practice.
2026
Hand cast glass and repurposed gold marine rope
Float 10:
61” x 5”
$6,000
Float 6:
50” x 5”
$3,600
Patterned on nautical elements and oceanic vegetal pods, the Float series groups unique hand cast glass beads on marine rope, simultaneously stacked and suspended to mimic the organic lines of light and vegetation beneath the water’s surface.
2 Tendrils
2026
61” x 5”
Opaline hand blown glass and rope
$14,000
Inspired by the flora and fauna of the ocean, individual translucent delicate blown glass bells overlap each other, layered like the vertebrae or strands of a legendary aquatic organism.