“Loose and Free,” an exhibit at Xanadu Astoria, will feature this watercolor piece by Bryan Hobein.

At Astoria’s Second Saturday Art Walk, downtown galleries unveil their new exhibits and offer a chance to explore the local art scene. Meet artists behind the work and find live music, wine and refreshments between noon and 8 p.m. Saturday. Find events and shows at the following locations.

Angi D Wildt Gallery, 106 10th St.

Renowned for his ability to sculpt oils, artist James E. Dunbar captures the region’s essence with passion and precision in a new exhibit at this gallery.

From majestic mountains to serene sailing scenes, each canvas by Dunbar pulsates with life, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Also available in the gallery this month will be “Mountain Goat,” a rare original piece by Stephen Lyman.

ARTstoria Gallery, 1168 Commercial St.

This upper-level gallery in a historic building features the energy and color of spring, with paintings of forests, flowers and waterfalls. Linger and browse through a selection of scarves, prints, journals and cards.

Astoria Art Loft, 106 Third St.

Showing work by High Fiber Diet, a group of fiber artists from western Oregon and southwest Washington. This group’s work explores the challenges of using fiber as a creative medium. “A Different View” is their traveling and juried exhibit for this year.

Astoria Brewing Co. Taproom on 12th, 119 12th St.

Several local artists’ families have been meeting to chat and create on Tuesdays at this location. This month, the taproom features the kids’ art.

Astoria Studio Collective, 372 10th St.

This gallery will display “Anti Social Studies,” an array of portraits, figure drawings and abstract watercolors by Roy Sanchez, who will give a drawing demonstration of caricatures and quick portraits.

Sanchez’s work focuses on how people express themselves with their faces and bodies as he experiments with medium and scale.

Astoria Visual Arts, 1000 Duane St.

Presenting “Swamp Concerto,” a collaborative exhibition by artist team Anna Daedalus and Kerry Davis, which draws on three recent projects: “Palus,” “Grounded Glass” and “Decomposure,” all place-based projects rooted in the lower Columbia-Pacific region.

The work focuses on a protected Sitka spruce swamp, which the artists have spent three years observing and documenting through photographic prints and canvases of time-based processes and alternative photographic techniques. An artist talk will take place at 3 p.m. with a reception from 4 to 7 p.m.

Breakside Brewery, 1355 Exchange St.

Featuring abstracts and representational works by Jasper Stone, which use vibrant colors with inspiration from nature. Other local artists’ work will also be on display.

Bridge and Tunnel Bottleshop and Taproom, 1390 Duane St.

John Albers-Mead loves to capture abstract imagery through photography, emphasizing lines, textures, light, shadows and time.

Using long exposures, short focal ranges and a sense of balance in his photos, he captures a moment in time that is fleeting and instantaneous. Albers-Mead has coupled his love of being in nature with his need to create something interesting, visually and intellectually. These impermanent moments in the lens represent his current art and heart.

Brumfield Gallery, 1033 Marine Drive

This gallery’s exhibition of ceramics by the creative couple Lynne Hobaica and Rickie Barnett will continue through May 11. Also featured will be works selected from the studio of the late artist Katherine Ace.

Imogen Gallery, 240 11th St.

Welcoming back local photographer Don Frank with a new series of photographic prints focused on the moody and mysterious landscape that surrounds us in this region, specifically the “off-season.”

Frank focuses on the time of year that many look to as a period of rejuvenation and contemplation. The days are short, the weather is strong, and endless grey days melt into darkness.

For some, it’s a time to reconnect to the natural world in a meditative way, preparing for the long, busy days of summer. Frank, with his keen eye, brings the beauty of the subtle and the sublime in his sense of composition and subject matter.

LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Drive

Two exhibits, the group show “Synchronicity” and the solo exhibit “Scenes from the Park” from Astoria’s Jody Miller, will be featured at this gallery beginning at 4 p.m.

The group exhibit, juried by Sam Blair, will feature the work of 27 photographers. Their works reflect on the events of life that seem to be random but have a profound influence. In the practice of photography, synchronicity also occurs, when everything aligns on all levels.

Miller said of her exhibit: “For five years I lived in a mobile home park in Palm Springs, California. I grew curious about others who lived in my park and imagined what their life stories might be like.” The recreated images in this show hint at the stories behind imagined events, each made during blue hour at dusk.

Made in Astoria, 1269 Commercial St.

In “FLOUR” by Morrison Pierce, the artist asks viewers to consider warfare and our role as fellow humans. His recent series of paintings reference the “flour massacre” in Gaza when on Feb. 29, 118 Palestinians were killed and 760 injured after Israeli forces opened fire on civilians who were attempting to get food from aid trucks.

With a grasp of his mortality and with the time he has left, Pierce is on a journey to find some sort of answer to our collective existence. Meet the artist from 5 to 7 p.m. at the gallery.

Paul Polson Studio Gallery, 100 10th St.

This gallery will present new oil paintings of the figure and Astoria landscapes. The rest of the work consists of artist Paul Polson’s “Strata” series, as well as landscapes. Watercolors of the artist’s trip to Europe will also be shown.

RiverSea Gallery, 1160 Commercial St.

Joan Stuart Ross, a recognized artist who lives and works in Seattle and Nahcotta, Washington, has spent her art career over decades entranced by color.

In her vibrant abstract paintings, she freely combines and dances between mediums, transmuting color, marks and personal symbolism into layered visual narratives. Two distinct series comprise a cohesive exhibition that sings with intense color.

Encaustic panel paintings carry their narrative from above to below the surface through layers, embedding and revealing collaged snippets cut from her original ink drawings. Her mixed media paintings incorporate many layers of expressive mark-making, combining oil sticks, collage, and printmaking on paper or canvas. Meet the artist from 5 to 8 p.m., with refreshments and live music from John Orr.

West Coast Artisans Gallery, 160 10th St.

Moving into spring, memories are recalled and made again. Memory boxes are a place to store the mementos of those days. Whether it’s the paintings on recycled cigar boxes from Michael Muldoon or specialty papers by Joy Diamond, these boxes provide a place to capture memories of the days ahead.

Xanadu Astoria, 1104 Marine Drive

Showing “Loose and Free,” a collection of watercolors by Astoria artist Brian Hobein, depicting the relaxed and bare male figure, exploring sexuality, comfort and vulnerability and how that is contained and expressed in the male form.