After being closed for a month to refine the product selection and revamp the art space, Corduroy Surf Boutique & Gallery plans a re-opening celebration during tomorrow night's First Friday Art Walk. Actually, Tyler Briggs (the shop's art & event director) tells me the party tends to start late and go much beyond the official 8 pm end to Art Walk. She says the drinks will start flowing around 7 pm and the party probably won't wind down until 11 pm, which makes Corduroy the perfect spot to hit after the other galleries close their doors for the night.

I stopped by this morning to check out the new space and the new art, and found Tyler (left) and owner Jim McGinley unpacking a few boxes of art.

The work in the boxes came from Northern California artist Jamie E. Watson. I'm pretty sure this particular piece spells out the recipe for world peace (or at least life long happiness).

The four artists/surfers of The Pine Haven Collective helped spruce up the space with art galore. They created the shop's new window installations (see photo at the top) that feature ships in a bottle. Here's a gorgeous mural installation by member Katrine Hildebrandt that enlivens the wall space between the shop below and the gallery above.

Member Peter Jackson Hussey created these sweet surf-inspired letter press notecards.

And member Joe Conway silk screened these T-shirts with an image reminiscent of a Picasso drawing.

Upstairs in the gallery, Collective member Jenny McGee Doughtery shows a body of new work called "From Rags to Rust."

Doughtery's work is rendered in a range of media, including watercolor, acrylic, graphite and even coffee. Ttitled "Lot," this is the work that incorporates the java. It's priced at $400 framed, which is on the high side price-wise for this show. Many of the smaller works are going for only $20 or $30.

Reasonably priced art aside, one of the absolutely coolest things about the whole Pine Haven Collective exhibition has to be this "Driftwood Shack." Not only is it an amazing construction (which is reportedly held together by just a couple screws), but anyone is invited to crawl inside, lounge on the pillows and crank up the turntable. I wonder how many surfers can fit in that shack?

You can find the laid-back art, surfer vibe and live music from The Mosquitos at 59 Market St. in the Old Port, next to Sebago Brewing Company. Let me know if you find out how many people the shack can hold.