California Treescapes
Schedule
Wed Oct 29 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley | Berkeley, CA
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An Exhibition of Woodcut Prints by Tom KillionGallery Hours: 10:00 am–4:00 pm
Admission: Free with regular Garden admission
Artist’s Open House: Sunday, November 2, 12:00–4:00 pm. Tom Killion will be on hand to discuss his work along with the carved blocks and progressive proofs for his new Dawn Redwoods print.
The UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley is pleased to present California Treescapes, an exhibition featuring woodcut prints by renowned Bay Area artist Tom Killion. The exhibition showcases his signature landscape woodblock prints, which are strongly influenced by the traditional Japanese Ukiyo-ë style of master woodblock print artists Hokusai [1760–1849] and Hiroshige [1797–1858].
Visitors will have the opportunity to view Killion’s stunning woodcut prints of California trees and flowering plants, including the unveiling of his new multi-color print: Dawn Redwoods, UC Botanical Garden. This new work was commissioned by the Garden and is being presented to the public for the first time. Original prints will be available to purchase.
This commissioned work features the iconic Dawn redwoods (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) growing along Strawberry Creek in the UC Botanical Garden. Through the intersection of art, science, and history, visitors will discover the fascinating story of the dawn redwoods, ancient trees once thought to be extinct until as recently as 1944, when a grove of approximately one thousand trees was identified in a remote region of China. In 1948 an expedition to the area included UC Berkeley paleobotany professor Ralph Chaney, who returned with seeds and seedlings. These were distributed to various sites, and planted in the Garden in 1949. Now considered an endangered species, the dawn redwood is being preserved and protected by the Garden for future generations.
Image: Detail from Giant Sequoias, Tom Killion, 19 x 11.5 ", 2020
Learn more: https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/events-page/tom-killion-exhibition/
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