Erin Shapiro, Director and CEO, and the Board of Directors at Plains Art Museum invite you to the opening reception of . . .

Full Disclosure
Selections from the Thomas-Suwell Collection

Saturday, April 20, 2024
6-9 pm
Plains Art Museum

Music by Lula
Hors d’oeuvre by BernBaum’s
Cash bar

Admission is free with registration

Museum members receive one complimentary beverage
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Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall - known online by their moniker, The Icy Gays or @theicygays - acquired their first artwork, Corydon Cowansage’s Stairs #3, seven years ago after discovering it online. To call this purchase life-changing would be an understatement. Becoming “art collectors” was never a goal for the couple, but this painting, with its surreal abstraction of nature, became the point of origin for their committed discovery and support of emerging queer and female artists which would ultimately grow into a landmark collection.

FULL DISCLOSURE marks the first public display of works from the collection of Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall, contemporary art collectors based in Minot, ND. Rob and Eric are thrilled to invite everyone into their world where nature and humanity surreally entwine, and “new” identities emerge.

FULL DISCLOSURE is curated by Anne-Laure Lemaitre, a New York based curator, writer and creative strategist who specializes in large-scale in-situ art.

artwork: Anna Weyant, Dirty Little Secrets (detail), 2019, Oil on panel, 48 x 84 in., Courtesy of Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall

Full Disclosure: Opening Reception

By Plains Art Museum

Full Disclosure: Opening Reception