Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison at Various Small Fires

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison at Various Small Fires

This husband and wife duo are not only artists but also historians, diplomats, ecologists, investigators, emissaries and art activists. In the reading, Sculpture in the Expanded Field, Krauss discusses the artistic practices that were rising, where artists felt the need to compose their lives in the way of an artist, intertwining their lives with their works. He also talks about how the different disciplines in art can overlap and expand as artists experiment and push boundaries of what it means to make a sculpture or a painting. The Harrison's combine both of these values and the exhibit "Various Small Fires" illustrates that. Their exhibit is 'uniquely interdisciplinary' as they combine, within a variety of pieces, 'minimalist sculpture, land art, color field painting, cartography, and video', where none of the different pieces of art could fall under one category.