Ruby dog puts a hex on you from the pages of Gambit Weekly. http://www.insidenola.org/ … [Read more...]
I’m on the radio, cher!
Prior to installing my piece at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, LA for the Southern Open, I had the pleasure of joining curator Mary Beyt and Bree Sargent for an interview with the wonderful Judith Meriwether on Radio Acadie. Click HERE to listen. (My part begins at 9:30). … [Read more...]
Southern Open
My piece won the grand prize, Juror’s Pick! This earns me a solo show in the side gallery at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in May 2013 and some money. Many thanks to Brian Guidry and Mary Beyt and the staff at the ACA and especially to Rene Barilleaux, Chief Curator,Curator of Art after 1945 at the McNay in San Antonio for seeing what he did in my work and for putting together a great show. What a heady night.I can’t wait to get back to Lafayette. … [Read more...]
Plastic Gulf at the Ogden Museum
Plastic Gulf, Lee Deigaard, 2010, 2012 single channel video through July 23, 2012 statement about the work: After the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, fishing lures collected dust on bait store shelves, and fishing boats around the region idled. Marine life choked in the oil-polluted water. In Plastic Gulf, the decoy becomes the protagonist. Fishing lures forage in a false plastic eden of lush ocean reeds. Without real fish to unmask their imposture, their puppet-like movements simulate life.n the Pacific Ocean there is a vast island of plastic garbage. Plastics are made from oil.Even before the oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico's dead zones were growing, fed by fertilizer runoff carried by the Mississippi River from industrial farms in the Midwest.We place a lot of faith in … [Read more...]
Introducing The Front @ the CAC
Don’t it make ya wanna silly slap us? You can buy these pinup prints for a song. … [Read more...]
NOLA Now, Part II @ the CAC
Curated by Don Marshall, NOLA NOW, Part II: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape takes the wide-angle view. Lots of work by lots of local artists, including my piece Behold [Through Her Eyes]. Take in the scenery. See what the deer sees. And so much more. Don’t miss Jan Gilbert’s and Debra Howell’s wall installationVestiges to which I contributed several photographs. There’s a handy artist map. … [Read more...]
Spaces: St Claude galleries take a trip downtown
Thanks to curator Amy Mackie the artist members of three New Orleans artist collectives, The Front, Antenna, and Good Children, join forces at the Contemporary Art Center with new individual works as well as new collaborative projects from each gallery. I’m showing two new pieces, Betwixt and Between. You can also find me with my fellow Fronters as a shy guinea pig in our playful exercise in group branding. See our individual wall posters (portraits by Jonathan Traviesa with group-sourced text and layout by all of us) and don’t miss Dave Greber’s hilarious “behind the scenes” video. Through June 10, 2012 @ the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. … [Read more...]
Lost and Found
Four of my works are in this show curated by Mary Beyt and Brian Guidryfrom the Acadiana Center for the Arts: “Lost and Found: Louisiana's Landscape Revisited focuses on the use of the landscape as impetus and inspiration for artists. Landscape art has been admired throughout Louisiana's history. In this exhibition, the landscape may be referenced or act as an impetus for creativity. However, a transformation of the bucolic occurs. This reinterpreted Landscape affords the viewer a unique experience of our beloved setting. The show attempts to expose the bounty of reinterpretations that are currently being explored in our state. This show includes artists: Philip Gould, Fonville Winons, Robert Polidori, Aubrey Edwards, Lee Deigaard, David Webber, Courtney Egan, David … [Read more...]
Animal Proximity
Animal Proximity Curated by Holly Hughes and featuring the work of internationally acclaimed new media artist Kathy High and New Orleans-based artist Lee Deigaard, Standing Heat: Animal Proximity maps the boundaries between animal and human. @ the University of Michigan’s WORK Gallery, 306 S. State St, Ann Arbor, MI. January 13- February 3, 2012Gallery Talk with the artists at 5 pm, January 13. … [Read more...]
Inside Art New Orleans review!
Inside Art New Orleans review! Read the article here Open Sat & Sun evenings through January 29, 2012 639 Desire Street New Orleans … [Read more...]