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Stewarding Knowledges
as part of the Artists@Work Exhibition

October 3 - December 5

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3rd, 4:30–6:00 pm
Rood Center, 950 Maidu Avenue, Nevada City.

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Announcement: California Work Exhibitions Now Open!

Press Release: Pacific Standard Time – “California Work” Exhibition Series Featuring the Harrisons

Explore the newly released press announcement for the California Work series, part of Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative. This collection highlights the visionary ecological art of Helen and Newton Harrison across multiple venues and dates.

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Immersive Ocean Health Project at UCSB’s AlloSphere

A three-story metal sphere in an echo-free chamber pulses with life. Inside, a new multisensory installation blends cutting-edge science with art to examine the fragility and resilience of our world’s oceans. 

Known for its immersive sound and visual experiences, the AlloSphere Research Facility at the California NanoSystems Institute, UC Santa Barbara, is hosting a series of public screenings. Read the full article here!

Survival Piece I at VSF Los Angeles

Survival Piece I: Air, Earth, Water, Interface: Annual Hog Pasture Mix
September 14 – October 19, 2024

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14, 6 – 8pm VSF Los Angeles

This September VSF is excited to present The Harrisons’ Survival Piece I: Air, Earth, Water, Interface: Annual Hog Pasture Mix, 1971 in alignment with PST: Art & Science Collide. The first in their visionary series of Survival Pieces, “Hog Pasture,” as it is known by Harrison’s fans, emerged from a direct dialog with the most visionary and boundary pushing artists of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.

 

While the art world at large was engaged in a radical restructuring of artistic, social, and institutional values in the post-war, post-1968 era, the impact of the Earth Day movement and the nascent cultural awareness that human beings were rapidly depleting the planet’s natural resources ignited a deep and sincere ecological conviction within Helen and Newton Harrison that changed the course of their engagement with art forever

Survival Piece #5 Opens at Whitney Museum 

Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard marks the first standalone museum presentation of the fully realized indoor citrus grove conceived and designed in 1972 by artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison.
 
This project explores the need for a productive and sustainable food system in an imagined future where natural farming practices are obsolete and cannot be taken for granted. Stretching across the Museum’s eighth-floor gallery, this installation of eighteen live citrus trees rooted in self-contained planters with individual lighting systems reflects a survivalist alternative in the face of environmental decline. Read the full article here!

PST 2024 Art & Science Collide

Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work

Husband and wife Newton and Helen Harrison were among the earliest and most notable ecological artists. This is the first exhibition to focus on their California work, nearly 20 projects produced between the late 1960s and 2000s. Responding to growing environmental awareness, the Harrisons pushed conceptual art in new directions, from their efforts to make topsoil—endangered in many places—to their transformation of a Pasadena debris basin into a recreational area. The couple agreed that they would only take on projects that benefited the ecosystem. Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work revisits the Harrisons’ groundbreaking ecological concepts through re-staged performance artworks, drawings, paintings, photography, collages, maps, archival documentation of large-scale installations, and unrealized proposals for real-world ecological solutions. The Lagoon Cycle—a complex 360° photo mural in 60 parts—on display for the first time since it was acquired by the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1997.
 
Read the full article here!

Art 2030 - NY Climate Week Sept 13 - 29, 2024 

Top: Newton and Helen Harrison/Center for the Study of the Force Majeure, Epitaph 2.3, 2024, as part of FUTURE OURS, New York City, 2024. Courtesy of ART 2030.

Future Ours was a public art exhibition across New York, created in response to the United Nations’ “Summit of the Future.”

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Presented during what was widely regarded as one of the most crucial United Nations General Assemblies in generations, the large-scale public art project by ART 2030 and Kunsthal Charlottenborg appeared inside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City and across hundreds of JCDecaux bus shelters throughout the five boroughs.

Sky High Farm Biennial Exhibition: Trees Never End and Houses Never End

Sky High Farm is pleased to announce its inaugural biennial, TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END—a site-specific exhibition that explores the intertwined histories of ecology, industry, and land use in the Hudson River Valley and its connection to New York City.

On view from June 28 through October 2025, the exhibition takes place in a historic apple cold storage warehouse along the Hudson River in Germantown, NY. It marks the beginning of a new chapter for Sky High Farm as we expand onto a newly acquired 560-acre property.

Featuring over 150 artworks available for purchase, with a portion of proceeds dedicated to advancing Sky High Farm’s mission of food sovereignty and climate resiliency.

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