Exhibition Tour – Clear as Mud Annie Lee & Brian Zimerle
Thursday, September 3, 6-6:45 PM, Free

Discover how art inspired by everyday life invites us to reflect on memory, identity, and the stories that shape our sense of belonging.

Clear as Mud brings together the work of Annie Lee-Zimerle and Brian Zimerle, two artists whose practices navigate memory, materiality, and the quiet complexities of everyday life to reconsider the promises and contradictions of the American Dream. Drawing from her background in printmaking, book arts, painting, and drawing, Annie Lee-Zimerle creates narrative-driven pieces that reflect on domesticity, cultural mundanity, and her experience growing up between South Korea and the American Midwest. Brian Zimerle’s sculptural ceramics explore the fragility of meaning through replicated objects shaped by memory, history, and material transformation. Together, their work invites viewers to question what is preserved, altered, or lost over time. It offers a layered meditation on belonging, cultural inheritance, and the often-overlooked stories that shape collective identity.

This tour will require attendees to stand and walk on concrete floors for 45 minutes. Mobility aids including wheelchairs and walkers are
welcomed and encouraged. Please reach out to visitorservices@plainsart.org with any questions or concerns regarding this program.

Gallery admission is free every day of the week. Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program; the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Arts Partnership, with support from the Cities of Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo; the McKnight Foundation; The FUNd at Plains Art Museum; Giving Hearts Day donors; Spring Gala sponsors; and hundreds of Plains Art Museum members like you.

Exhibition Tour | Clear as Mud: Annie Lee & Brian Zimerle