WASHINGTON DC
NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN

“Flora: Growing Inspirations”,
in partnership with the Washington Sculptors Group

May 23, 2009 – October 12, 2009
U.S. Botanic Garden, 245 First Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20024

Greensboro Sculptor Jim Gallucci currently has a work in the Washington DC National Botanic Garden exhibit entitled “Flora: Growing Inspirations”, in partnership with the Washington Sculptors Group.

This exhibit features a series of highly stylized garden rooms on the Conservatory Terrace that immerse the visitor in a vibrant, albeit slow, form of performance art. Within the rooms and in an adjoining gallery are featured original sculptures inspired by plants. The sculptures, selected by a jury from a national competition, celebrate the symbolic and aesthetic role of plants in culture. Contemporary artists have drawn on the diversity of plant form and the fundamental strength of plants’ life force for powerful metaphors that comment on the state of modern society and individual human existence.

Jim’s work is a large zucchini flower, which will host growing vegetables and flowers.

The exhibit opens May 23, 2009 and runs through October 12, 2009 in the East Gallery and Conservatory Terrace. The National Botanic Gardens hours are 10 AM - 5 PM daily, including all weekends and holidays and admission is free.