Raina Benoit
Raina Benoit, Ghost Net, Canvas and thread, dimensions vary approximately, 14 x 2.5 feet, 2022
Raina Benoit, Nets and Internets 1, Graphite, pen, watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 inches, 2022
Raina Benoit, Nets and Internets 2, Graphite, pen, watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 inches, 2022
Raina Benoit, Seaweed, Graphite, pen, watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 inches, 2021
Louisiana & France-based artist, Raina Benoit's work investigates the human body's relationship with the environment. Benoit received her BA from Louisiana State University in Liberal Arts. After living and working in New York City, she continued her studies in France at the Atelier des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris where she studied painting and drawing. She completed her MFA at the University of Arizona and for close to a decade lived and researched along the U.S. Southeast’s coastline. She lived in the southwest of France, studying the healing arts and living as close to the land as possible in a creative space entitled, “The Creative Refuge”. She has recently relocated with her family to New Orleans, Louisiana a place she considers home.