Lee Deigaard

Eclogue: The University of New Orleans

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The University of New Orleans (UNO) Fine Arts Gallery hosts an installation by Lee Deigaard. Inspired by tree canopies, root structures, circulatory processes, and cyclical relationships with nature, “ECLOGUE” is comprised of photographs, videos, drawings, and sculptural elements. An opening reception will be held at the UNO Fine Arts Gallery (2000 Lakeshore Dr) Thursday, August 19, 4:30-8 pm. Regular gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 am-4:00 pm. The exhibition will remain on view until October 18. Notes about the show: Eclogue is a technical term for a type of pastoral poem with social, political, urban underlayers. In this show, ecological issues of wood, water, storm, flood, and animal protagonism prevail. Selections from independent but inter-related bodies of work are … [Read more...]

Latin for Crab @ The Front

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"Latin for Crab", a summer group show under the sign of Cancer, considers the female body- its armor, its flesh, bound, determined, embodied- from perspectives of illness, mortality, and recovery. Works in the show derive from artist responses to their own or close associates’ illnesses. Featuring the work of Pinky Bass, Heidi Kumao, Sarah Cusimano Miles, Karen Edmunds, Jan Gilbert, Monica Zeringue, and Lee Deigaard who also curated. With a special viewer browsing section of related texts and picture books, including The Trotula, a medieval compendium of women's medicine. Gallery Talk, Sunday, July 14 @ 2pm July 14-August 4, 2013 The Front, Room 4 open Sat & Sun 12-5 4100 St Claude Ave NOLA 70117 www.nolafront.org … [Read more...]

Lumen 2013, Video and Performance Festival, Lyons Pool, Staten Island, NYC

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I’ve done my share of contemplating pool bottoms during swim practice while lapping the miles. But the pool’s been drained, and the ferry is free (bonus views of Lady Liberty) en route. I am excited to be showing two video projections, Plastic Gulf and Sagacious Creatures at the LUMEN 2013 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL SATURDAY JUNE 15, 6PM – MIDNIGHT (ONE NIGHT ONLY) LYONS POOL, STATEN ISLAND, NY 50+ Artists Transform an Immense Swimming Pool into a Sensational and Spectacular Luminous Playground Filled with Fantastic Creatures! LUMEN 2013 features video installations, new media projections, animation, light and sound art and is curated by David C. Terry and Esther Neff. Terry is the Director of Programs/Curator at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) where … [Read more...]

PULSE: Lee Deigaard at the Acadiana Center for the Arts

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Pulse: a multi-channel immersive video installation exploring spontaneous encounters with the natural world. Sustained associative narratives are constructed of fragments collected from incidental acts of witnessing; unrehearsed, stumbled upon, fleeting. Large and small scale projections can be viewed in their entirety or in piecemeal for any duration of time. Viewers are invited to sit or recline on the grassy wooden platform. TITLES “Villanelle/Pastorale”, large scale video projection, 50 min loop, 2012-3 “The Rolling World (LAX to MSY), large scale video projection/ digital animation, 15:08 loop, 2012-3 “One Thing Leads to Another”, small scale wall projection with installation elements, plastic horse, 5:31 loop, 2013 “Embed”, pair, wall-mounted illuminated magnifying lenses … [Read more...]

Immersive Space: FLOW

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Viewers experience a sense of wading and fitting through parts in this installation employing wood pilings, photographs of natural and manufactured elements, projected video and sounds of rain, thunder, cicadas, and black-bellied whistling ducks. Twenty-five embedded wall lenses explore issues of circulation and flow and feature angiograms, aerial river deltas, and fallen birds. Overhead canopies of umbrellas trail branches like root structures or dendrites. plywood forms, wooden pilings, suspended umbrellas, photographs, lenses, branches Immersive Space: Three Louisiana Artists: Lee Deigaard, Shawn Hall, Colin O’Con, curated by Alyssa Fridgen March 1-May 11, 2013 Tues-Fri 10-5 Member Preview/Reception March 1, 6-8 pm Alexandria Museum of Art 933 2nd Street Alexandria, … [Read more...]

Winner, Clarence John Laughlin Award!

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With enormous gratitude to the New Orleans Photo Alliance and the award juror, Deborah Klochko, Director of the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, I am thrilled and honored to receive the Clarence John Laughlin Award. For more about the prize, click HERE. … [Read more...]

Currents, PhotoNOLA at the Ogden

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Five of my photographs, Higher Plane, Bound, Manifest, Not a Sound, and One Version of Events are on view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in Currents, curated by Richard McCabe.November 29, 2012-January 6, 2013www.neworleansphotoalliance.org www.ogdenmuseum.org … [Read more...]

Meet Your Moderator: ArtSpeak @ the CAC

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ArtSpeak returns to the CAC with a panel discussion on Wednesday, October 24 at 6:30 pm. The panel will be moderated by Lee Deigaard and will include Blake Bertuccelli, Trevor Alan Taylor, Ben Diller, and Rontherin Ratliff. Admission is free and open to the public. The Contemporary Arts Center 900 Camp Street, New Orleans www.cacno.org … [Read more...]