Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison will be exhibiting a new multimedia installation titled The Force Majeure at Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art. The Force Majeure takes form as a body of photos, text, drawings, large-scale mappings, ecologically based proposals and global warming narratives. Indeed, the crisis of global warming is not a recent concern for these artists, but one they have addressed throughout an exhibition career going back to 1970. (The 1970-71 period, for example witnessed the Harrisons’ Ecosystem of the Western Salt Works at LACMA’s famous – or notorious – Art and Technology exhibition, their controversial Portable Fish Farm project at London’s Hayward Gallery and as well, a spirited debate with artist Robert Smithson on the paradoxes of art and ecology). The Harrisons, whose proposals have influenced long-term public policy planning, are internationally recognized for their visionary artworks grounded in the natural sciences.
Among the leading pioneers of the eco-art movement, the collaborative team of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison (often referred to simply as "the Harrisons") have worked for almost forty years with biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners and other artists to initiate collaborative dialogues to uncover ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development.
Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art

More on the artists:
The Harrison Studio
Peninsula Euope
Radical Nature
Green Museum