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EDUCATION
1989MFA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1983BFA Auburn University, Auburn, AL
1980Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1979Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
   
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007Loyola University (with Ron Bechet), New Orleans, LA
  Gallery Bienvenue, New Orleans, LA
2006"Lost Moorings" Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2005Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, SC
2004"Boats of Myself" Marguerite Oestricher, New Orleans, LA
2003Trudy Labell Fine Arts, Naples, FL
2002"Navigating Light" Marguerite Oestricher Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
  "Without Borders" Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2001"Ephemera" Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, Delgado College, New Orleans, LA
2000"Diary 2000" Eichold Gallery, Springhill College, Mobile, AL
1999Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
  Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
1998Gallery 28, Del Ray Beach, FL
1997Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
1996Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1995Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
1994Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
1992Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
  Suzanne Dey Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
  Hall Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA
   
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Kathry Markel, New York, NY
  “Sculpture New Orleans” Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007 “Kaleidoscope Katrina” Lord & Taylor, New York, NY
  Steve Martin Gallery, Miami, FL
2006"Vernissage" U.S. Embassy to NATO, Brussels, Belgium
  "Art from the Gulf" Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD
  Haverstraw Art Center, Haverstraw, NY
  "Dedicated to New Orleans" Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 “Made in New Orleans ” Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State
  University, Jonesboro, AK
  Artspace, Shreveport, LA
  Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
  Space 301, Mobile, AL
2004 “Glass and the Bigger Picture” Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  “Summer Group” Maralyn Wilson Gallery, Birmingham, AL
  “Five New Orleans Artists” Arthouse, Houston, TX
2003 “Saltline Biennial”, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
  “Cerebrations”, Art Off Center, Saenger Theater, Mobile, AL
2001 “International Biennale”, Florence, Italy-bronze medal in Grafica
  “ Julia Street North ” Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
  “Repetition” Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
  “Works on Paper” juried by David Kiehl, Curator of Prints, Whitney Museum, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  “Assemblage” Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2000 “ New Orleans Artists” University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
  “Petite Physique - a body of small work” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1999 “Triennial 1999” Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
  “The Written Word: Text in Art” Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
  “Goliad: A Cultural Convergence” Goliad, Texas
1998 “Unbound: An Exhibition of Artists Books” Weintrab Thomas Gallery, Sacramento, CA
  “Shrines: The Sacred and Secular in Contemporary Southern Art”
  Lenox Square Artwalk, Atlanta, GA
  “In the Footsteps of the Muse” Bushbarn Art Center, Salem, OR
1997 “Drawing Invitational” Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
  “Dix Artistes de Louisiane” Artists’ Alliance, Lafayette, LA
  1996 “Southeastern Juried Competition” Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, LA
  “Sculpture Invitational” Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
1995 “Innocence Lost and Found” Elise Goodheart Fine Arts, Sag Harbor, NY
  “ Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists with Alabama Ties”
  Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
  “Contemporary New Orleans Artists - Works on Paper”
  Warwick Galleries, Warwick, NY and DHLW Gallery, Lafayette, LA
1994 “Summer Group Show” Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
  “Underexposed” Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1993 “Timely and Timeless” The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
  “MS Represented; Women’s Invitational” Center for Creative Arts, Clarksville, TN
1992 “New American Talent” Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
  “Selections” University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
  “Compact Competition” Juror’s Merit Award, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
   
HONORS
2007 Juror, Grand Isle Art Exhibition and Retrospective, Venice, LA
2006 Art in Embassies, Vernissage, NATO Embassy, Brussels, Belgium
2004 Collector’s Club Artist for 2004, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
  Juror, “No Dead Artists” Jonathon Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2003 Artist in Residence, The Mesa, Springdale, UT
2002 Juror, Student Art Exhibition, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
2001 Bronze Medal in “Grafica”, Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
1992 Juror’s Merit Award, “Compact Competition” Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
   
COLLECTIONS
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
U.S. Embassy to NATO, Brussels, Belgium
South Carolina Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Miami Herald, Miami, FL
U.S. Embassy, Kathmandu, Nepal
U.S. Embassy, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Nordstrom’s, Seattle, WA
New Orleans Airport, New Orleans, LA
Grand Hotel Marriott, Point Clear, AL
Marcus Allen
Sam Maloof
Francis Collection, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA
Hibernia Bank
   
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Skin Deep”, 2007
“The Fragile Journey”, D Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA, Sept. 28, 2004
“Celestial Navigation”, D Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 17, 2002
“Ephemera”, Doug McCash, Times Picayune, New Orleans, LA, June 1, 2001
“Catch a Wave”, D Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA, May 29, 2001
“Great Art in the Big Easy”, Julia Reed, Southern Accents, January Issue 2000
“Cool Raine”, Thomas B. Harrison, Mobile Register, Mobile, AL, Oct. 1, 2000
“The Big Picture”, Doug McCash, Times Picayune, New Orleans, LA, April 1, 2000
“Raine Bedsole: The Course of Mystery”, Christopher Fischer, New Orleans Art Review, Nov./Dec. 1999
“Small Boats and Flowers”, D Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 12, 1999
“The Picture of Success”, Doug McCash, Times Picayune, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 3, 1999
“Going Ape”, Paul McClean, In Review, Nashville, TN, March 23, 1999
“More Than Words”, Donna Dorian Wall, Southern Accents, Sept./Oct. 1998
“Artbooks”, The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, CA, Dec 14, 1997
“Raine Bedsole @ Marguerite Oestricher”, D Eric Bookhardt, Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, July/Aug. 1997
“New Masters of Art”, Art Santa Fe, Summer 1997
“Age Old Encaustic”, Donna Dorian Wall, Southern Accents, May/June 1997
“Women on the Verge”, Alan Bostick, The Nashville Banner, March 17, 1996
“An Optimist’s Eye in Ridgefield ”, Viven Raynor, The New York Times, Dec. 5, 1995
“Good Things Come in Small Packages”, Anne Price, The Nashville Banner, 1995
“Underxposed”, Chris Waddington, Times Picayune, 1994