Summer Art Exhibitions

Don't miss any of these spectacular art exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California!

Source: San Francisco Botanical Garden Library

San Francisco Botanical Garden Library
"Dahlias! A Photographic Tribute to San Francisco's Official Flower"
Photography by Franck Avril May 4 – August 31, 2011

Asian Art Museum
Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance
February 25 – September 11

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde
May 21 – September 6, 2011

De Young Museum
Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris
June 11, 2011 - October 9, 2011

San Francisco Maritime Museum
Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark
Maritime National Historical Park
July 1 - October 31, 2011

Legion of Honor
Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection
July 9, 2011 - October 2, 2011

California Historical Society
A Century of Landscapes: Selections from the California Art Club
July 14 – October 15

University of California , Berkley Art Museum
Rome, Naples, Venice: Italian Masterworks from the BAM/PFA Collection
July 6, 2011 - October 15, 2011

In Southern California:

Source: The Huntington Library and Art Collections

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Paris: Life and Luxury
April 26–August 7, 2011

Timken Museum of Art
George Inness in Italy
June 10, 2011 - September 18, 2011

The Huntington Library and Art Collections
Out of the Shadows: Joshua Reynolds’ Celebrity Portraiture and the Market for Mezzotints in 18th-Century Britain
July 2, 2011–Sept. 26, 2011

Dynamic Botanical Photographs

Photo courtesy of the SF Botanical Gardens

Now being exhibited at the San Francisco Botanical Garden's Library are brilliant photographic images of plants and flowers bursting with color, texture and geometry. The title of the show, by photographer Julie Jaycox, "Nature's Geometry: Surprises of Botanical Design," perfectly describes these beautiful and detailed images and the symmetry they present.

Many of the pieces are composed of two pictures to show the similarity and differences between the plants and the elements that make them unique. Julie's images showcase the beauty, elegance and often unseen details of plants that surround us daily, as many of these photographs were taken while she walked through parks and found the plants in different stages of growth and flowering.

"Nature's Geometry: Surprises of Botanical Design" will be on display at the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture in the San Francisco Botanical Garden until December 30, 2010 and are a must see for any botanical or photograph enthusiast.