“Glass and the Bigger Picture” Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA “Dedicated to New Orleans” Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GAĢ005 “Made in New Orleans” Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AKĬontemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LAĢ004 “Opening Exhibition” Center for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL “Art from the Gulf” Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD “Haverstraw Sculpture Exhibition” Haverstraw Art Center, Haverstraw, NY “Elemental” Steve Martin Gallery, Miami, FLĢ006 “Vernissage” U.S. “Sculpture New Orleans” Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LAĢ007 “Kaleidoscope Katrina” Lord & Taylor, New York, NY “40 Days and 40 Nights” Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, LA “Visiting Artist Exhibition” NOCCA, New Orleans, LAĢ008 “Close Up: Recent Work From Five Louisiana Artists” Kathryn Markel, New York, NY “Gallery Artist Group Show” Wade Wilson Gallery, Houston, TX “Gallery Artist Group Show” Maralyn Wilson Gallery, Birmingham, AL “Paper” curated by Stan Hackney, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, ALĢ011 “Trees” Sibley Gallery, New Orleans, LAĢ010 “Women Artists in Louisiana: 1825-1965” New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA “Prospect 3 Biennial: Imago Mundi” curated by Diego Cortez, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA “24th International Sculpture Conference: littleSCULPTURE”, New Orleans, LA “Memory of Flight” Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TNġ997 Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Art, New Orleans, LAġ996 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, ORġ994 Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Art, New Orleans, LAġ990 Hall Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LAĢ014 “50th Anniversary Exhibition: The Art and Design of Mardi Gras” Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL “Without Borders” Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TNĢ001 “Ephemera” Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, Delgado College, New Orleans, LAĢ000 “Diary 2000” Eichold Gallery, Springhill College, Mobile, ALġ999 “Boats of Myself” Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Art, New Orleans, LA “Raine Bedsole and Ron Bechet” Loyola University, New Orleans, LAĢ006 “Lost Moorings” Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TNĢ005 “Raine Bedsole: Recent Work” Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, SCĢ004 “Navigation” Marguerite Oestreicher, New Orleans, LAĢ003 “Ashes” Trudy Labell Fine Arts, Naples, FLĢ002 “Navigating Light” Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
“Lost Moorings” Loyola University, New Orleans, LA “Instruments for Navigation” University of West Florida, Pensacola, FLĢ008 “Beneath the Surface” Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TNĢ007 “Fragments of Lost Days” Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans, LA Incorporating materials and found objects that allude to the personal narratives that shape our lives, Bedsole marries material virtuosity with an uncommon sensitivity to myth and the power of natural form.ġ989 MFA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CAġ980 Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaĢ014 “Imagined Shores” Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LAĢ012 “Dream Documentation” Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LAĢ011 “Ghost Fleet” Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans, LAĢ009 “Recent Work” Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans, LA Whether collage or assemblage, painting or sculpture, the works have luscious patinas and textures embodied with meaning. The notches and grooves in Bedsole's oars sculptures weave mysterious narratives about the hands that rowed them – their individual histories mixing with the artist's experience in intricate layers of paint, texture, fabric, found paper and poetry. They elicit the phenomenon of memory and the dynamic between the objects and experiences – those that anchor us to our past and those that liberate us to let go. With poeticism and concentrated emotional potency, Raine Bedsole’s sculptures and works on paper speak directly to the human heart. The boats, oars, bird’s wings and other recurring motifs are expressed in a language not limited to earthly tongues and time periods. Nautical imagery that informs the artist's work harkens to the Egyptian barques that ferried souls into the afterlife Norse longboats embodied with poignancy and romance Native American canoes and the raft – that rescues us from harm, delivers us to safety. Evocative, haunting and serene, Raine Bedsole's art whispers in the timeless language of mythology and symbolism.
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