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Title:	Murray Lemley: Fifty Years of Photography and Design
Date:	7/5/2025 - 1/4/2026
Address:	Plains Art Museum, 704 First Ave N, Fargo, ND 58102,
Location:	Fargo, ND
Hours:	Monday - Sunday: 11am - 5pm, Thursday: 11am - 9pm
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://plainsart.org/exhibitions/murray-lemley/
Contact Info:	701.551.6100

Details:

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. After leaving his home on the family farm near Hope, Lemley studied architecture at North Dakota State University, but after disagreements with his design professor, he shifted his focus to photography, journalism, graphic design, and anti-establishment activism. This journey inspired him to launch three independent magazines, work in radio, and edit the controversial yearbook The Last Picture Book, which famously omitted the name of the university from its cover and led to a temporary discontinuation of yearbooks at NDSU. Despite amassing double the required credits for a degree,