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In addition to the Gallery at the Garden schedule, selections from In Search of Paradise: Centuries of Great Garden Design are on view in the Great Hall except during select special events.

At Gallery in the Garden

Miles Lowry & Jill Metcoff
Black and White Photographs
January 15 – April 3, 2005

Miles Lowry: Remnants of Our Forest Past
Jill Metcoff: Earth/Fire/Air/Water: A Meditation on Prairie Burns

Conservation, diversity and ecology are the focus of two black and white photography exhibits opening at the Garden on January 15, 2005. Remnants of Our Forest Past features images of old-growth forests by Miles Lowry, professor of photography at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Earth/Fire/Air/Water: A Meditation on Prairie Burns, captures what Metcoff describes as the “ephemeral moments of possibility when the four elements (wind, fire, water and earth) interact.”

Meet the artists at a free reception and slide lecture at 2 p.m. on Sunday, January 16. The exhibits are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the Gallery in the Garden through April 13.

Fruitful Abundance
April 14 – June 12, 2005

Three artists transform fruit into images that reflect the wonder, vibrancy and transitory nature of life, each from their highly personal perspectives, in Fruitful Abundance, a new Garden exhibit opening April 14. The fruit-related paintings in this combined exhibit will be on display and for sale in the Gallery in the Garden from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, through June 12.

Each image offers a view of fruit both disarming and delightful. Featured are oversized oil paintings of apples, melons and kiwis by Ohio artist Dennis Wotjkiewicz; bold, sensual, fruits on a grand scale against dark backgrounds by Tom Seghi, Miami Beach, Florida; and trompe l’oeil-style paintings of fruits contained within antique boxes or wooden crates by Denise Mickilowski, Cambridge, Mass.

The exhibit runs in the North Gallery through June 12, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. All paintings are for sale.

Dan Kiley: Master Landscape Architect and Great Garden Design at the Chicago Botanic Garden
Friday, June 24 through Sunday, Aug. 7

These exhibits feature photomurals highlighting the work of Dan Kiley and other world-renowned garden designers who have created gardens for the Chicago Botanic Garden. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily in the Gallery at the Garden.

Endangered Plants of Japan
August 19 – October 2, 2005

More than 70 original botanical illustrations of rare and endangered plants by outstanding Japanese artists will be on display in the Gallery of the Garden from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. This traveling exhibition, organized by the Japanese Association of Botanical Illustrators, will be hosted in the United States by the National Arboretum and the Chicago Botanic Garden.