solo show of photographic works from my “Unbidden” series, 2008-2013. curated by Richard McCabe photography galleries, 3rd floor, Ogden Museum of Southern Art January 16-April 6, 2014 … [Read more...]

statement: "Pulse", an immersive video installation, explores spontaneous encounters with the natural world. Sustained associations build from hundreds of fragments- acts of incidental witnessing that are unrehearsed, stumbled upon, and fleeting. 50 minutes long, it can be viewed for any length of time, at any starting point, but its effect builds. Primary elements- wood, water, fire, smoke, horse, bird, grass- combine and recombine in rhythmic, recurring motifs that examine the connections and spaces between perception, recollection, and narrative association. To be a human witness in the animal world is to intrude. Yet we live intimately with our animal companions. All of us live in a world of shifting environmental pressures. Heat, flood, storm, blaze. Highways, byways, the … [Read more...]

Elizabeth Stone, winner Walter Pickering, 2nd place Lee Deigaard, 3rd place … [Read more...]

PhotoBOMB: a group show of photographic works featuring interventions, disruptions, and inciting events. Curated by Lee Deigaard & AnnieLaurie Erickson. Featuring: Hannah Smith Allen Bryan Anselm Pinky Bass Caleb Charland Neal Cox Lee Deigaard Malcolm Easton Adam Eckberg AnnieLaurie Erickson Jill Frank Courtney Johnson Kevin Kline & Bruce Schultz William Lamson China Langford Craig Roper Maria Levitsky Adam Montegut Takeshi Moro Adam Neese Jack Niven Ellen Stern Josh Winegar Matt Shain Shelley Wood in conjunction with PhotoNOLA 2013 Rooms 1 &2 @ The Front 4100 St Claude Ave, NOLA 70115 www.nolafront.org http://photonola.org/event/the-front/ … [Read more...]

‘The "Commendation for an Outstanding Exhibition" award was bestowed for the exhibition, "Immersive Space," curated by Alyssa Fridgen at the Alexandria Museum of Art in Louisiana. "Immersive Space" featured a series of entire-room installations by three Louisiana artists, Lee Deigaard, Shawn Hall, and Colin O'Con exploring created space and inviting contemplation about our relationship with nature, taking cues from the surrounding environment, an immersive environment where emotional space and physical landscape merge. The award was presented at the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) annual meeting in Savannah, Georgia. Two winners in that category of museum exhibitions in over 12 states were chosen by the CurCom, a national professional network committee of the American Alliance of … [Read more...]

“One-to-One:Close Quarters”, speaker, part of panel session chaired by Nigel Rothfels, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Notre Dame University, Indiana, October 2013 “Horses: In House, In Hand, and In Person”, Chair: Nigel Rothfels Session 2, Lee Deigaard, Angela Hofstetter, and Erica Tom. Session 1: Gala Argent, Richard Nash, Karen Knarr “The contributors to these two panels are thinking about new, perhaps postnatural, ways to talk about the physical, emotional, and intellectual embodiedness of horses and how those aspects of the creatures must be part of our interactions with them and thinking about them. Coming from a range of fields–including archaeology, literary studies, art practice, American studies, and veterinary practice, the panelists will discuss how … [Read more...]

SubMERGE by Lee Deigaard A multi-level, immersive, site-specific video, photographic, and sculptural installation Oct 5, 2013- Feb 2, 2014 Contemporary Arts Center 900 Camp Street New Orleans, LA 70130 (504) 528-3805 Hours: Wednesday through Monday 11am-5pm http://cacno.org/exhibitions/submerge Show description: Lee Deigaard’s SubMERGE is the latest site specific installation in the ongoing EMERGE exhibition series in the first floor oval gallery. Immersive and multilevel, SUBMERGE's projections, ambient audio, and embedded lens photographs and videos can be experienced at ground level amidst a forest of wood pilings, conduit pipe, and plywood and viewed from above and in the round along the ramp to the second floor. Inspired by the circulatory processes of trees, … [Read more...]

I’m hosting two new shows by amazing artists at The Front tonight! 6-10 pm, with new work by Nikita Gale in Rm 2 and her performance at 9pm AND new work by Carl Joe Williams in the backyard- sculptures and sound environment. All together, 5 new shows opening @ 4100 St Claude Ave. Artist conversations at the gallery Sunday at 2 pm. Open Sat & Sun, Sept 14-Oct 6, 2013. The Front, 4100 St Claude Ave, NOLA … [Read more...]