Local Color

First Floor Café Space

Local Color invites viewers on a journey through the familiar yet quietly stunning landscapes of the Upper Midwest. In her debut solo exhibition, Elizabeth Eggl captures the beauty of the Red River Valley’s winding roads, expansive fields, and tranquil waters. Her work incorporates houses, highways, paths, and other human-made structures to emphasize that humans are not separate from nature but coexist within it.

Eggl’s oil paintings reflect a sensitivity to shifting light and detail. With softly blended color and delicate brushwork, she invites viewers to pause and engage more fully with the world around them. Her works uncover the beauty in both the grand vistas and quiet moments of nature’s ever-changing canvas.

Elizabeth Eggl is an emerging artist from Bismarck, North Dakota. She graduated from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 2024 with a BFA in Painting and a BA in English. Eggl is active in public and community art initiatives, including murals at Churches United, participation in The Art of Giving charity auction, and the annual Fargo-Moorhead Studio Crawl.

Gallery admission is free every day of the week. Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program; the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Arts Partnership, with support from the Cities of Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo; the McKnight Foundation; The FUNd at Plains Art Museum; Giving Hearts Day donors; Spring Gala sponsors; and hundreds of Plains Art Museum members like you.

Elizabeth Eggl, Cabin Life, Oil on board, 20 3⁄4 x 17 in., Courtesy the artist