Artist Statement
My work explores animal protagonists and the emotional spaces and physical landscapes where humans and animals co-habitate. I am interested in ways of seeing and being seen in turn: the crossing of gazes, mutual awareness and unawareness, and how close observation incorporates past, present, and future.
Lee Deigaard graduated from Yale University with a major in fine arts and earned graduate degrees from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design and from the University of Texas at Austin where she held a Michener Fellowship in Creative Writing. In 2012 she won the Clarence John Laughlin Award for her series of nocturnal photographs of animals "Unbidden". In 2013, she had solo shows of site-specific installations at the Alexandria Museum of Art, the Acadiana Center for the Arts, the University of New Orleans, and the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans. Her solo show of photography "Trespass" and her video installation “PULSE” were on view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in 2014. Her work has been featured on National Geographic's blog PROOF. She is a member of the New Orleans-based artist collective The Front.
Her work explores animal protagonists and the emotional spaces and physical landscapes where humans and animals co-habitate.
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