Next Saint Mary’s art show titled ‘A History of the Plains’

WINONA, Minn. — St. Cloud artist David Sebberson will exhibit a portion of his on-going series, “A History of the Plains,” Aug. 17 through Sept. 27 at Saint Mary’s University’s Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries.

Sebberson began his series after visiting what was left of his family farm and noticing that the farm buildings that once dotted the landscape were “burned, bulldozed and buried beneath high-yield fields whose ever increasing economic productivity has been erasing the immigrant culture I grew up in, a harvest of forgetfulness at 150 bushels per acre.”

He describes the subject of his paintings as “loci where personal history and histories of art and rhetoric, immigrant history, and economic and cultural history intersect.”

Sebberson currently chairs the St. Cloud State University Department of Art.

A reception for the artist will be held 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at the galleries, located in the Toner Student Center.

Admission is free and open to the public, and gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. For more information, call (507) 457-1652.