Andy Warhol: Creating Myth and Icon

February 3 – May 19

Plains Art Museum is organizing the first solo exhibition of Andy Warhol to be presented in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Andy Warhol: Creating Myth and Icon brings to our region a nationally-known collection of Warhol prints held by Wesley and Missy Cochran.

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photo by Britta Trygstad

Creative Actions: Selections from the Permanent Collection

September 30, 2012 – Ongoing

Plains Art Museum is thrilled to unveil a re-imagined Permanent Collection show, which focuses on and engages with the ideas and creative actions of artists. In this newly curated show, the audience will visually unpack several “acts” that express artists’ processes, intensions, narratives, or functions.

Current Exhibitions

Beyond Convention: New Work by Jessica Wachter

Presenting painting, prints, and installation, this exhibition showcases new work by regional painter Jessica Wachter. Her contemporary mixed media work is strongly gestural, often containing personal celebrations, struggles, joys, loves, and losses. Wachter expresses these personal experiences through her use of color, texture, and composition. Working with abstraction, the artist seeks to imbue the work [...]

Creative Actions: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Plains Art Museum is thrilled to unveil a re-imagined Permanent Collection show, which focuses on and engages with the ideas and creative actions of artists. In this newly curated show, the audience will visually unpack several “acts” that express artists’ processes, intensions, narratives, or functions. Creative Actions is a re-hang for Plains Art Museum Permanent [...]

Hand Picked An Art = Food Installation by Su Legatt

Recently food has been become more and more politicized. The production, importation, manufacturing, even how much we consume, have all become hot button issues, and there has been an emerging “grow it yourself” mentality. In Fargo, we see tomato plants being gifted to residents by an unknown source. This new relationship allows consumers to be [...]

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From the Blog

Hidden Fargo in Plain Sight

May 9, 2013 – Plains Art Museum will open the exhibit Wing Young Huie: Hidden Fargo in Plain Sight on Thursday, May 16 at 7 PM. Minneapolis-based photographer Huie joins the Museum again to present images taken during his residency at the Museum last October. Huie’s subjects come from the everyday: people whose faces we see but [...]

It’s Spring Gala Time!

April 24, 2013 – Join the Plains Art Museum for your Fifteen Minutes of Fame at the 17th annual Spring Gala on Saturday, May 4th from 7 PM – Midnight! With presenting sponsor Border States Electric, the theme will be based on Andy Warhol’s Creating Myth and Icon exhibition, so come dressed to impress as your favorite icon or [...]

When Pop Goes Your Culture

April 17, 2013 – As an exploration of Andy Warhol’s appropriation of Native American cultural figures, Plains Art Museum asked photographer Joseph Allen to create a set of images in response to Warhol’s print series Cowboys and Indians. Allen will discuss his work in a public talk at the Museum on Thursday at 7 PM. In the two images, [...]

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