Past Exhibitions

Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession
Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation

April 17 – July 13, 2008
William and Anna Jane Schlossman Gallery & Jane L. Stern Gallery

The Foundation's large survey exhibition, Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, is a complete retrospective of the artist's career and includes more than 60 bronzes, from small studies to monumental works. The works were chosen according to major projects and themes of Rodin's career (such as The Gates of Hell, The Burghers of Calais, and partial figures). The exhibition spans the length of Rodin's career from his earliest bust of his father, Jean Baptiste Rodin, to his later studies of dancing figures. In addition to the bronzes, there are works on paper, photographs, portraits of the artist, and an educational model that demonstrates the complexities of the lost-wax casting process, Rodin's favored method of sculptural reproduction.

Burden: Recent Prints by Katy Matich

April 2 - June 30, 2008
ArtView - Café Muse

Katy Matich, the recipient of the inaugeral Hannaher Print Studio Intership is a Minnesota native who is currently studying for her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drawing at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Although drawing is her primary study and medium, Matich also enjoys working and exploring the processes of intaglio printmaking. Upon graduating this spring of 2008, Matich will look forward to further study at graduate school to obtain a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking.

2008 Spring Gala Auction Preview

April 28 - May 3, 2008
Fred Donath, Jr. Memorial Gallery

It’s spring and you know what that means…Plains Art Museum’s annual Spring Gala is right around the corner! Join the Museum on Saturday, May 3, as we celebrate the genius of Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation. Bid on a record-breaking 91 pieces of art created by some of the region’s most talented artists. The wide range of media and prices means there is truly something for everybody at this year’s auction. Auction proceeds help fund the Museum’s educational programming.

The auction preview is now online. The auction gallery at the Museum opens Monday, April 28. Bidding will take place at the Museum, Saturday, May 3, from 7-10 p.m.

Watercolors by Caroline Doucette

February 7 – May 18, 2008
ArtView - Xcel Energy and Serkland Law Firm Gallery

Signature Member of the Red River Watercolor Society, Doucette is a Rugby, N.D. artist. She paints full time—her specialty is florals.

School Spirit: Celebrating Youth Art

February 28 - March 30, 2008
3rd Floor

Youth Art Month is a national observance, which emphasizes the value of art education for all children and encourages support for quality school art programs. More than 9,000 students tour the Museum every year.

Window on the West:
Views from the American Frontier from the Phelan Collection

January 31 – March 30, 2008
William and Anna Jane Schlossman Gallery & Jane L. Stern Gallery

It is not just the West that you have seen in the movies, and not the stuff of legend, but rather the West as a newly-minted place. These 60 paintings from the Arthur J. Phelan Collection were selected to give a historically accurate cross-section of what really happened in the expansion of the West. They depict the people who moved west from the Mississippi. They examine how the West was gradually transformed over the decades as the continent filled and the frontier receded and then disappeared.

Still: Prints by Eric A. Johnson

January 2 – March 31 , 2008
ArtView - Café Muse

Eric Johnson devotes his creative energy to the linocut process. He uses the reductive method, carving a layered tapestry of interwoven lines that manifest as expressive, glowing, and vibrating fantasy landscapes.

See Eric work in Hannaher’s, Inc. Print Studio, Museum’s 3rd Floor, every Tuesday January - April, 10 am - 1 pm.

Also...
See artist John Volk work every Friday January - April, 1 - 5 pm.