A year after it was sawed into four parts and hauled piece by piece from UC Berkeley up the narrow two-lane road into Strawberry Canyon, Julia Morgan Hall has opened at the UC Botanical Garden.
The debut exhibition is a group show by 40 botanical artists from all over the world, yet it looks like they were painted specifically to hang in this 104-year-old room of redwood and paned glass, with a vaulted ceiling 20 feet high.
“This is a show that has been traveling up and down the East Coast, and it only chose one West Coast exhibit space, and we are it,” says Paul Licht, director of the UC Botanical Garden
Julia Morgan Hall: The opening exhibition, “Following in the Bartrams’ Footsteps,” runs through Feb. 15 at UC Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Drive, Berkeley. Free with garden admission. www.botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu.