Lee Deigaard

PhotoGALA Silent Auction at the New Orleans Museum of Art

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The New Orleans Photo Alliance hosts their fabulous PhotoGALA at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Thursday, December 6, 2014. My framed photograph Balestra is part of the fundraising silent auction. Come help support the wonderful work of the New Orleans Photo Alliance. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door. http://photonola.org/auction-preview/ http://photonola.org/photogala/ … [Read more...]

PhotoNOLA Photo Walk

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  As part of PhotoNOLA, I will be showing my portfolio at the Photo Walk at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Come visit with 70 photographers from around the country. Friday, December 5, 2014 6-9pm Ogden Museum’s Taylor Library 925 Camp Street New Orleans, LA 70130 "Participants in the PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review will display their work for an evening portfolio walk in the Ogden’s Patrick F. Taylor Library. Free and open to the public." Hosted by the New Orleans Photo Alliance … [Read more...]

Crusher Run

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Crusher Run: Lee Deigaard Artery, creek, highway, and byway. Stent, bypass, overflow, overpass. New photographs with installation explore landscape a stone's throw from the interstate. Room 1 @ The Front November 8-December 7, 2014 Opening reception: Saturday, November 8, 6-10 pm Regular hours: Saturdays & Sundays 12-5 pm PhotoNOLA reception: Saturday, December 6, 6-9 pm Gallery Talk: Sunday, December 7, 2 pm     … [Read more...]

All Things Great and Small: Interdisciplinary Animal Studies conference, UC Davis

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As part of All Things Great and Small, an interdisciplinary animal studies conference hosted at the University of California- Davis, I will give a talk about my photographic series Unbidden, chair a panel about Animal Arts, and exhibit my recent video Gus and Deuce Go Elsewhere. Special thanks to Gala Argent and Ted Geier. Bringing in the Animals I: Intersubjectivity, Agency & Narrative (Chair: Gala Argent) Kari Weil Autobiographical Animals: Cixous’ Animots Angela Hofstetter Aesthetics, Agency, and Horses in Hollywood Cinema Lee Deigaard Unbidden Animal Arts (Chair: Lee Deigaard) Vivian Sming Symptoms of the Prey Linda Brant Honoring, Contradiction and Chance in American Pet Cemetery Gravestone Image Pairings: Visual Art Meets Human Animal Studies Roundtable discussion on … [Read more...]

Imago Mundi at the New Orleans Museum of Art

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"REPARATION: Contemporary Artists from New Orleans is an exhibition of 187 works by 180 New Orleans artists, young and old, and is part of Luciano Benetton’s Imago Mundi collection, works commissioned and collected by Benetton on his world travels. Organized by Diego Cortez, REPARATION features hundreds of New Orleans artists who were invited to create works utilizing the same format: a 4 × 4.75” canvas. Imago Mundi embodies a visual tapestry of the human artistic condition, and focuses on the society as opposed to the individual artist or art star. These new works will join the larger Imago Mundi collection of tens of thousands of international artists. Instead of constructing a collective exhibition in search of common themes, practices, similarities, trends, or movements, … [Read more...]

Back to The Front: a group show of new works for Prospect 3+

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Gus and Deuce Go Elsewhere makes its public debut. [photo by Mitchell Oliver]   Invited by the artist to visit a "living museum", horses Gus and Deuce decide whether to come inside, explore the museum's permanent collection, and sample from a horse-pitality tray of sculpted fruits and vegetables, encountering all new people, things, textures, scents, and sounds. Horses at the Museum and In Your Dreams [Horses] are ongoing multi-media projects exploring horse personality and individuality, sensory awareness and processing, and the boundaries and thresholds of shared experience.   Lee Deigaard Gus and Deuce Go Elsewhere, 2014 digital video, 36 minute loop   With James Cooler and Kate Finnerty Cooler. Video documentation by the artist with … [Read more...]

Gallery Talk, TRESPASS @ The Ogden

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I will be whispering to the turkeys and talking about tiptoeing around coyotes. Which is how I like to describe my artist talk. In the photography galleries at my solo show Trespass. At the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Curated by Richard McCabe. We hope to see you there. … [Read more...]