Artist Talk: Murray Lemley

Name: Artist Talk: Murray Lemley
Start: 2025-08-21T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-21T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Plains Art Museum

Schedule

Thu Aug 21 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Plains Art Museum | Fargo, ND

Join us for an artist talk on Thursday, August 21, from 6-7 PM. Life-long artist, Murray Lemley, will dive into his retrospective "Fifty Years of Photography and Design" - on view until January 4, 2026.
Free with registration.
Murray Lemley: Fifty Years of Photography and Design is a retrospective exhibition celebrating Murray Lemley’s artistic career. The exhibit features a wide range of imagery, including extensive black-and-white analogue street photography from Europe in the 1970s and 80s, documentary portrait studies of people from his hometown of Hope, powerful portraits of Native Americans on the Fort Berthold Reservation, and a radical transition in later years to creating modern Polaroid images he calls “STREET COLLAGE GRAFFITI.” With this more recent work, he has, in one sense, returned to the streets he haunted in Europe in the 1970s, but in vivid color and with a new point of view and style.