Dawn DeDeaux has merged art with new technologies for decades to broaden art, audience and dialogue. Her earliest professional works from the 1970s – ‘CB Radios’, ‘Drive Up Movies‘ and ‘Art in America: A Traveling Show’’ – were mobile exhibitions that travelled to underserved neighborhoods throughout south Louisiana to build new audiences for art and civic engagement; mid-career exhibitions such as ‘Soul Shadows’ and ‘Urban Warrior Myths’ aimed to break socio-economic-racial barriers; and works of the past decade - ‘Unseen,’ ‘Project Mutants’ and ‘Aboard the MotherShip’ - aim to impact awareness and activism related to environmental issues. Conceptually-based, her works are always realized in a wide array of media. The first artist in Louisiana to utilize electronic technology, DeDeaux is considered a pioneer in the creation of fully immersive synchronized digital multi-screen environments and sculpture with digitized embedded imagery. Works by DeDeaux have been widely exhibited nationally, including New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, Armand Hammer Museum of Los Angeles, Baltimore’s Contemporary, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut, Chicago’s Peace Museum, Seattle Center on Contemporary Art, Dallas McKinney Contemporary Art Center, Delfina Studio Trust of London, Thread Waxing Space of New York, Canadian Film Society PleasureDome in Toronto, Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art, and Ballroom Marfa of Marfa, Texas.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 21:21:23 +0000
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