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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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California Work Exhibitions Now Open!
Immersive ocean health project premieres at UCSB’s AlloSphere as part of Getty PST ART
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…
VSF
The Harrisons
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
The Harrisons, Survival Piece I: Air, Earth, Water, Interface: Annual Hog Pasture Mix, 1971 (Installation view). Courtesy of the Artist, and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles / Dallas / Seoul.
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.
While later survival pieces highlighted a culminating harvest feast, Survival Piece #1 is focused on growth. The rectangular form of the raised planter bed and the grid of grow lights above echo sculptural innovations by artists like Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Richard Morris; however, Newton Harrison had by this time decided that a sculpture or a painting was not enough. His artwork needed to not only have a moral purpose, it needed to strive to restore the earth and protect the abundant future of humans on our planet.
Portrait of Helen and Newton Harrison.
The Harrison Studio consists of Newton Harrison (1932—2022) and Helen Mayer Harrison (1927—2018). Often simply referred to as “The Harrisons,” the husband and wife team are leading pioneers of the Ecological Art movement. During their prolific career, the Harrisons have been the subject of over 100 solo exhibitions, and have been included in over 250 group exhibitions. For nearly fifty years, the Harrisons have produced work across a vast range of disciplines, working in collaboration with biologists, ecologists, historians, activists, architects, urban planners, and fellow artists to initiate dialogues and create works exploring biodiversity and community development. They have shown work at the 2019, 1980, and 1976 Venice Biennales; Taipei Biennial (2018); documenta 8 (1987); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Tate, London, United Kingdom; Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; MoMA PS1, New York; Berkeley Art Museum; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; and Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany. Works by the Harrisons are included in many major permanent collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Newton Harrison is a Professor Emeriti at University of California, Santa Cruz, and University of California, San Diego. “Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work” will be exhibited at the La Jolla Historical Society as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative in 2024.
Survival Piece #5 Opens at Whitney Museum
https://whitney.org/exhibitions/portable-orchard
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 (1927–2018) and Newton Harrison (1932–2022). 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.
PST 2024 Art & Science Collide
Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work
https://pst.art/en/exhibitions/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.
Full PST Exhibition Schedule
Newton and Helen Harrison 2024 Exhibition Schedule (selected)
PST Venues (Opening dates where available)
San Diego County (Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work):
September 19 La Jolla Historical Society
September 20 California Center for the Arts, Escondido
September 21 San Diego Central Library Gallery
September 28 UC San Diego Mandeville Center Art Gallery
Art 2030 - NY Climate Week Sept 13 - 29, 2024
https://www.art2030.org/projects/future-ours
Art 2030 is launching Future Ours in conjunction with NY Climate Week.
Future Ours is a public art exhibition across New York in response to United Nations ‘Summit of the Future’.
Launching during what is widely regarded as the most crucial United Nations General Assembly in generations, ART 2030 and Kunsthal Charlottenborg's large-scale public art project Future Ours will be presented inside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City and on hundreds of JCDecaux bus shelters throughout the five boroughs of New York.