"Praire Boy," recent work by the artist Terry Jelsing, will be exhibited from Nov. 2-13 at the Cando Art Center.
Jelsing has said his paintings, sculpture and drawings often referece a common place shared by people who live in rural communities. "Prairie Boy" itself is an outdoor sculpture that Jelsing will move from outside his studio at Rugby, N.D., to Cando for the exhibit.
A Rugby native, Jelsing served in the U.S. Army and then enrolled at UND. He completed master's degrees in art history, sculpture and painting at the University of New Mexico in 1986. During that time he was part of the first American post-modernist movement, experimenting with timeart studies and conceptual projects.
After graduate school, Jelsing taught multimedia collaboration courses at UND for two years and was director of Beall Park Arts Center in Bozeman, Mont. In 1992, he was hired as curator by the Plains Art Museum in Fargo and later was named executive director.
In 2000, Jelsing established Eye In the Heart Studio in Fargo and began teaching art and design at North Dakota State University. In 2006, he relocated his studio to Rugby and began teaching art at Rugby High School.
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He and his wife, Cathy, live on his family's original homestead where he transformed a former granary into his studio.
There will be a reception and gallery talk for Jelsing in Cando from 3 to 5 p.m. Nov. 13.
