Andrew Raftery

Andrew Stein Raftery[1] (born May 22, 1962 in Goldsboro, North Carolina)[2] is an American artist and educator, known for his paintings, burin engravings, and drawings on fictional and autobiographical narratives of contemporary American life.

Andrew Raftery
Born (1962-05-22) May 22, 1962
Goldsboro, North Carolina
NationalityAmerican
EducationBoston University (BFA)
Yale University (MFA)
Known forBurin engraving, teaching

Biography

In 1984, Raftery earned his B.F.A. degree in painting from Boston University, and took his first intaglio printing class with Sidney Hurwitz.[3] In 1988, he completed his M.F.A. degree in printmaking from Yale University.[4] He is currently a professor at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) teaching in the printmaking and painting departments since 1991.[4] He credits Stanley William Hayter and his proteges in Atelier 17 as an influence, and the collection of Charles Randall Dean as a guide, before its acquisition by the Library of Congress.[3]

In 2004, Raftery's work was featured in Jonathan Weinberg’s book, Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art.[5] Raftery helped contribute to the 2009 publishing of the RISD Museum exhibition catalog, The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650 alongside Emily J. Peters and Evelyn Lincoln (of Brown University).[6] His major works in this period were the portfolios Suit Shopping (2000-2002) and Open House (2004-2008).[7]

In 2009, he was elected as an academic member of the National Academy in New York City.[8][9] From that year until 2012, Raftery assisted in research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the wear of engraved copper plates through printing, necessary for more confident dating of historical prints; this required using a traditional hammered copper plate and lozenge-shaped burin for the first time in his career.[10]

Awards

Raftery has earned many awards including the Fritz Eichenberg Fellowship in printmaking, narrative engraving project from the Rhode Island State Council for the arts in 2001,[11] Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2003,[4] the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award in 2006,[4] John R. Frazier Award for excellence in teaching from RISD in 2007[12] and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2008.[4]

Collections

His work is included in the public art collections of the select following;

References
  1. "Speaker Poptech 2015". Poptech Conference 2015. 2015. Archived from the original on August 20, 2015. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  2. "xy Exhibitions". Spencer Museum of Art. Archived from the original on April 12, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  3. Raftery, Andrew. "Genealogies: Tracing Stanley William Hayter," Art in Print Vol. 2 No. 3 (September-October 2012), 6, 8.
  4. "Fellows: Andrew Stein Raftery". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  5. Weinberg, Jonathan (2004). Male desire: the homoerotic in American art. H.N. Abrams. ISBN 0810958945.
  6. "Publications: Catalog for Brilliant Line". RISD Museum. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Archived from the original on April 11, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  7. Hirch, Faye (2016). "Art at the Threshold: An Inch in Andrew Raftery's Open House | Art in Print". Art in Print. Volume 5, Number 5. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  8. "Artists Robert Birmelin, Richard Bosman, Ann Chernow and Andrew Raftery discuss narrative prints with Jonathan Weinberg". Absolute Arts. June 5, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  9. "National, Living Academicians". National Academy Museum. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  10. Campbell, Angela; Raftery, Andrew (2012). "Remaking Dürer: Investigating the Master Engravings by Masterful Engraving". Art in Print. Volume 2, Number 4. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  11. "Raftery, Andrew". National Academy Museum. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved July 20, 2016.
  12. "RISD CSI, Call for Nominations: John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching". csi.risd.edu. Archived from the original on April 6, 2015. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
  13. "Andrew Raftery, Panel 5". Printmaking in the Expanded Field (PITEF). 2015. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  14. "Andrew Raftery". The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA). Archived from the original on August 11, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  15. "School of Art, Printmaking". University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). February 1, 2014. Archived from the original on April 12, 2015. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
  16. "Andrew Raftery: Open House". University of Vermont, Fleming Museum of Art. University of Vermont. 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  17. "Raftery, Andrew". National Academy Museum. Archived from the original on April 12, 2015. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
  18. "Scene Three – Objects - RISD MUSEUM". risdmuseum.org. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
  19. "Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible". Philoctetes Center. 2008. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
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