Lee Deigaard
MAY 11 - JULY 6, 2013

Pulse

Pulse, a multi-channel immersive video installation, explores spontaneous encounters

with the natural world. Large and small-scale projections of sustained associative narratives

are constructed from fragmentary moments-- incidental, unrehearsed, stumbled upon.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

My work portrays animal protagonists and the landscape we mutually inhabit. I am interested

in ways of seeing and being seen: the meeting and crossing of gazes, looking through and

seeing [what is] past. The mind's eye, the forensics of memory,recollection, and projection,

the existential filters of species and tree branches and deep darkness. Eyes are windows,

windows are viewfinders, boundaries, frames, and lenses. Object, subject, free will, trespass

are illuminated in the hidden moments between moments. The plasticity of identity, of

identification, shares borders-- human and animal, light and dark, body and space.

BIO:

Lee Deigaard is a member of the New Orleans-based artist collective, The Front. She

recently won the Clarence John Laughlin Award for photography administered by the

New Orleans Photo Alliance and First Prize at the Southern Open at the Acadiana Center

for the Arts for her video installation. She has exhibited her work at the Ogden Museum for

Southern Art, The Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, and the Alexandria Museum of

Art. Her Memorial to Topsy the elephant is on permanent display at the Coney Island Museum