Current Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 6, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 14, 6-9pm
Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5 pm, except for Second Saturdays when hours are 6-9 pm.
image credit: Norah Lovell
“This is unhinged.”
Said the dark horse who found the loose door.
I have made a heap of all
That I have found
In another color and in another sound*
(This is) A keen:
As a lock clasps a chest
We are bolters
We might be horses
Lee Deigaard explores the topographies where one consciousness encounters another, describing a landscape given shape and substance by its animals, their autonomy and expression, and our overlapping sensory and imaginative worlds. With language, photography/video, installation, event, and drawing, she works in collaboration and mutual curiosity to explore multi-species empathy, memory, intimacy, grief, and joy. As an independent artist, writer, and researcher based in urban Louisiana and rural Georgia, she has exhibited and presented her work nationally and internationally. Her writing and artwork have been published in Oxford American, Humanimalia, and Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture among others. She holds degrees from Yale University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Michigan.
Densely layered and detailed, visually and thematically complex, Norah Lovell’s fragmented narratives draw from various genres and motifs from historical wallpaper and textile design to animal stories in children’s books and the internet. In recent work she has been printing her own designs on fabric to create utilitarian and wearable objects, and painting into found objects and architecture. Increasingly, her work centers the non-human perspectives of animals on a human world careening at tipping point. She exhibits nationally and internationally, teaches interdisciplinary humanities courses at Tulane University and is a member of the artist-run collective and gallery Staple Goods in New Orleans. Her residencies include the Emily Harvey Foundation, Italy; International Scholars and Curators Program, New York; Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans; Cill Rialaig Arts Centre and Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. Her work is included in the permanent collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art and featured in Hyperallergic’s A View from the Easel.
*Cento poem fragment with Lee, Norah, Clarice Lispector and Edmund de Waal
Connections: Staple Goods 10th Anniversary Exhibition Catalog
Exhibition catalog commemorates the collective’s 10th anniversary exhibition, Connections (May 2021), and is available for $5.
Text by Amy Mackie. Book Design by Tiffany Lin. Printed at Paper Machine. Curated by Laura Richens.
Participating Artists: Minka/Thomasine, Aaron Collier, Robyn Denny, William DePauw, Abe Geasland, Daniel Kelly IV, Kristina Knipe, J Knoblach, Norah Lovell, Kaori Maeyama, Anne Nelson, Jack Niven, Laura Richens, Cynthia Scott, Sadie Sheldon, Lorna Williams