Helen & Newton Harrison: California Work

Dates and Times

• Saturday, Nov 23, 2024  12pm - 5pm
• Saturday, Nov 30, 2024  12pm - 5pm
• Saturday, Dec 7, 2024  12pm - 5pm
• Saturday, Dec 14, 2024  12pm - 5pm
• Saturday, Dec 21, 2024  12pm - 5pm
• Saturday, Dec 28, 2024  12pm - 5pm
• Saturday, Jan 4, 2025  12pm - 5pm
• Saturday, Jan 11, 2025  12pm - 5pm
• Saturday, Jan 18, 2025  12pm - 5pm

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As part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art and Science Collide, the San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts Program presents Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work, a retrospective exhibition about the work of husband-and-wife team Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, who were among the earliest and most notable ecological artists. Founding members of the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Helen and Newton were local San Diego artists for nearly four decades, where they developed their pioneering concepts of Ecological Art.

Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work is the first exhibition to focus on their California work, including nearly 20 projects produced between the late 1960s and 2000s. Presented as a multi-site exhibition in four locations around San Diego simultaneously, the exhibitions will examine the California works produced including: Urban Ecologies, The Prophetic Works, Saving the West, and Future Gardens.

Saving the West, presented at the San Diego Central Library will allow visitors to delve deeply into the series of works associated with the Harrisons’ research on the fragile and environmentally threatened ecologies of the Pacific Coast fog forest and the Sierra Nevada mountains. These bioregional works, mark the Harrisons’ growing interest in complex ecologies, the impacts of overexploitation and mismanagement of natural resources and the effects of global warming on the complex bionetworks of forests and watersheds. Works reveal the Harrisons’ concept of the Force Majeure and their increasing concern with the issue of global climate change.
Curated by Tatiana Sizonenko, PhD.

See more Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work at:
La Jolla Historical Society: September 19, 2024 – January 19, 2025
California Center for the Arts Escondido: September 21, 2024 – January 19, 2025
The Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego: September 28, 2024 – December 7, 2024

Additional support for Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work provided to the La Jolla Historical Society by Joan and Irwin Jacobs, the M&I Pfister Foundation, The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation, Michael Bernstein and Patti Harp, Heath and Terry Fox, and Monica and Charles Cochrane.

Featured Programs & Events
• Opening Reception with LIVE music curation by Nick Lesly + small bites by UPAC Neighborhood Enterprise Center
Reception sponsored by the Friends of the Central Library
Sep 21|12-2pm
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• How Do We Regenerate a Forest? Thinking with the Harrisons
Keynote Address with Josh Harrison, Climate Science Alliance Dr. Megan Jennings, Joelene Tamm, Will Madrigal, Jr., Ruth Wallen and moderated by Anne Douglas and Chris Freemantle.
Nov 12th|5:30-8pm
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• The Curious World of Seaweed
Exhibit
Sept 28 – Jan 19, 2025
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• Family Day – DIY Native Seed Bombs
Art-Reach San Diego
Nov 23rd|10am-12pm
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• Influence & Inspiration: Working with the Harrisons
Ruth Wallen, Robin Brailsford, Leslie Ryan, Tatiana Sizonenko
Jan 13th|6-8pm
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About Pacific Standard Time 2024
The third regional collaboration in the Getty series, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, will focus on the intersection of science and art with exhibitions on subjects ranging from ancient cosmologies to indigenous sci-fi, and from environmental justice to artificial intelligence. Art & Science Collide will share groundbreaking research, create indelible experiences for the public, and generate new ways of understanding our complex world.
For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art
About VAP
The Visual Arts Program at the Central Library provides access and connection to the arts and culture landscape in San Diego offering unique opportunities to local and regional artists. Featured exhibitions can be viewed at Central Library’s Judith Harris Art Gallery in addition to rotating exhibitions by local artists and creative groups at several library branch locations.
Learn more at mysdpl.org/visualarts
Gallery Hours:
Monday and Tuesday, 1 – 7 p.m.
Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5 p.m.
Sunday, 1 - 5 p.m.