Current Exhibitions
Wing Young Huie: Hidden Fargo in Plain Sight
Wing Young Huie joins us once 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 often fail to notice. Within each of those individuals, personal stories unfold on the grand and small scales; yet all are affected by a [...]
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 [...]
A Creative Life: Honoring Charles Beck
For decades, Charles Beck has inspired our region with his art. He has been a creative leader, an art teacher at Fergus Falls Community College, and an inspiration to young artists over many generations. From the stunning and intimate woodblock prints he is most well-known for paintings, drawings, watercolors, and wood carvings, Beck has mastered [...]
2012 S.P.A.C.E. Sculpture
On May 4, three student artists, under the direction of North Dakota State University professor of art David Swenson, assembled the newest S.P.A.C.E. (Sculpture Pad Art Collaborative Experiment) sculpture to grace our outdoor sculpture pad. With bright colors, fun and quirky treatment of windows and doors, the untitled piece is a whimscial treatment of a [...]