Jill Bedgood: Barnacles of Existence

Jill Bedgood creates mixed media sculpture and installations that contemplate the dualities in life, the cyclical nature of existence, and the weight of memory. In the tradition of marble memorials, her reliefs, laden with symbolic objects, contrast excess and austerity to evoke transience and immortality. Bedgood’s artwork functions as contemporary memento mori, asking us to consider why we value our possessions and their persistence through time after our own lives end.

About the artist: Jill Bedgood has an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin in Sculpture and Art History and a BFA in Painting and Art History from Louisiana State University. Bedgood has exhibited work nationally and internationally at the Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Lawndale Art Center, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio Museum of Art, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis Contemporary, The Contemporary Austin, the National Painting School in Athens, Greece, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, Turkey, and others. Bedgood has participated in the Visiting Artist Residencies at the American Academy in Rome and a Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. She has received the New Forms Regional Initiatives Grant, funded by the Rockefeller, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Mid America Arts Association/National Endowment for the Arts Award in Sculpture, and Art Matters Inc. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

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