Raine Bedsole: Water and Dreams
Raine Bedsole
New Orleans-based artist Raine Bedsole received a Masters of Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Auburn University. A prizewinner in the Florence Biennale and the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation public sculpture grant. Her work is in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, South Carolina Museum of Art, and the Mobile Museum of Art. In Sept. 2018, her 27-foot steel sculpture, Justitia, was unveiled at the newly constructed U.S. Federal courthouse for the southern district of Alabama. In 2017, Bedsole was selected as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, and most recently she served as a visiting artist at Kent State University. In Jan. 2020, her work will be exhibited at Hathaway Contemporary Gallery in Atlanta.