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Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work |
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California Center for the Arts, Escondido |
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340 N Escondido Blvd |
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Escondido |
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Ca |
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92025 |
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Celebrate the opening of Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work with a reception on Friday, September 20, 2024, from 6:00 PM-8:00 PM in the Museum Courtyard. Visitors will enjoy music, lite bites, |
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20-9-2024
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Starts On 20-9-2024 Ends On 19-1-2025
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9/20/2024 |
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| Event Description |
Part of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide, California Center for the Arts, Escondido presents Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work, a retrospective exhibition about the work of husband-and-wife team of 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. 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 project |
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