Dawn DeDeaux
Dawn DeDeaux was the first artist in Louisiana to heavily utilize electronic technology beginning with the creation of her CB Radio Booth media sculptures and outdoor film projections, Drive Up Movies, on buildings in 1975. She is considered a pioneering artist in synchronized digital multi-screen immersive environments such as The Face of God that premiered at the 1996 Olympics and is winner of the international Montage 93 competition for work which best merged art and technology, featuring her multimedia installation Soul Shadows. She also applies new technologies within her 2D digital imaging, for example her life-size portraits of trees in the series Totems; within her translucent sculpture series Water Markers embedded with image; and media sculptures where objects serve as receptacles for moving image or sound, for example her storm culvert sound work Broken and the 2010 video sculpture One Drop. Her sculptures often incorporate light, found in her Katrina memorial series Steps Home and in her series MUTANTS that will place illuminated floating sculptures down the Mississippi River and coastal wetlands, embedded with light-responsive water sensoring devices.
DeDeaux has exhibited throughout the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, …
Dawn DeDeaux was the first artist in Louisiana to heavily utilize electronic technology beginning with the creation of her CB Radio Booth media sculptures and outdoor film projections, Drive Up Movies, on buildings in 1975. She is considered a pioneering artist in synchronized digital multi-screen immersive environments such as The Face of God that premiered at the 1996 Olympics and is winner of the international Montage 93 competition for work which best merged art and technology, featuring her multimedia installation Soul Shadows. She also applies new technologies within her 2D digital imaging, for example her life-size portraits of trees in the series Totems; within her translucent sculpture series Water Markers embedded with image; and media sculptures where objects serve as receptacles for moving image or sound, for example her storm culvert sound work Broken and the 2010 video sculpture One Drop. Her sculptures often incorporate light, found in her Katrina memorial series Steps Home and in her series MUTANTS that will place illuminated floating sculptures down the Mississippi River and coastal wetlands, embedded with light-responsive water sensoring devices.
DeDeaux has exhibited throughout the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art to name a few. She is recipient of the Rome Prize as the McKnight Foundation Visiting Southern Artist and winner of the 1975 Demolition Derby in the New Orleans Superdome as the only female contestant in a field of 35 drivers. She is a featured artist in the international biennial Prospect 2, New Orleans.
Courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
