Horses at the Museum | Lee Deigaard

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Horses at the Museum is a trio of projects that reflect Lee Deigaard’s ongoing exploration of interspecies thresholds of shared experience, and human desire to connect with the animal kingdom.

Gus and Deuce Go Elsewhere. Deigaard invited two horses, Gus and Deuce, to visit museum. They decided to enter the building, explore the permanent collection, sample from a horse-pitality platter, and experience unfamiliar people, things, textures, scents, and sounds. With with James Cooler and Kate Finnerty Cooler of Cooler Natural Horsemanship. Documentation contributed by Lee Deigaard, Mitchell Oliver, Valerie Wiseman, and Martha Whittington. Horse-pitality platter by Emily Ensminger and Jennie Carlisle.

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Field Trip. As a gesture of community outreach, Deigaard took highlights from Elsewhere’s collection out on tour to bring the museum’s holding to a new audience: horses.

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One Day. An overhead projector in Elsewhere’s Collaboratory, casts an image of a ghost horse that appears to gallop through the room.

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Lee Deigaard
Lee Deigaard

Lee's work explores animal protagonists and the emotional spaces and physical landscapes where humans and animals co-habitate. Circulatory systems, ecological processes and ideas of flow, immersion, and convergence inform much of her work.

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. Some of her curations there include the group shows "PhotoBOMB", "You Beautiful Bitch", and "Latin for Crab".

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