--- title: 2018_Harrisons_Artforum_Jones date: 2018-04-10T15:04:23-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-harrisons-artforum-jones" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/helen-mayer-harrison-newton-harrison) HELEN MAYER HARRISON (1927–2018) ARTFORUM Apr 07, 2018 HELEN MAYER AND NEWTON HARRISON, often referred to simply as “the Harrisons,” became known for their ecological systems art, which first emerged in the early ’70s. Helen is no more on this earth she loved, but we can imagine her serenity at contributing to its energies on another level. In her own words in a recent catalogue, she relates how her art career began: “I, Helen, began to invest myself in the earth that Newton had made.” But we are not obliged to take such a modest statement literally; we can leverage it by listening to the sharp wit and lively voice in scores of online interviews addressing the Harrison Studio’s complex research-based practice, or we can recall how, as early as 1962, she was the first New York coordinator for the Women’s Strike for Peace—which was simultaneous with her life-changing reading of Rachel Carson’s *Silent Spring*. **[Read the full article here](https://www.artforum.com/passages/caroline-a-jones-on-helen-mayer-harrison-1927-2018-74887)** Related News & Press Mar 27, 2018 [ ![Portrait Of Hn Harrison Photo Copyright Peggy Jarrell Kaplan 1985](/assets/exhibition_images/Portrait-of-HN-Harrison-Photo-copyright-Peggy-Jarrell-Kaplan-1985.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-helen-harrison-statement) Mar 27, 2018 [Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/helen-mayer-harrison-newton-harrison) [Remembering Helen Mayer Harrison](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-helen-harrison-statement) Feb 24, 2018 [ ![Screen Shot 2018 03 21 At 12 44 58 Pm](/assets/exhibition_images/Helen-Newton-Harrison/Screen-Shot-2018-03-21-at-12.44.58-PM.png) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-harrison) Feb 24, 2018 Santa Cruz Sentinel [Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/helen-mayer-harrison-newton-harrison) [UCSC art professor championing environmental change since 1969](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-harrison) Apr 02, 2018 [ ![Cassils Installation Shot](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils/2017-MONUMENTAL/cassils-installation-shot.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-cassils-sage-emmanuel-david) Apr 02, 2018 Contexts [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [The Art of Trans Politics](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-cassils-sage-emmanuel-david) Jan 28, 1993 [ ](https://feldmangallery.com/archived-press/1993-wilke-nytimes) Jan 28, 1993 New York Times [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Hannah Wilke, 52, Artist, Dies: Used Female Body as Her Subject](https://feldmangallery.com/archived-press/1993-wilke-nytimes) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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