Andrew Raftery
| Andrew Raftery | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 22, 1962 Goldsboro, North Carolina |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Boston University, Yale University |
| Known for | Burin engraving |
Andrew Stein Raftery[1] (born May 22, 1962 in Goldsboro, North Carolina)[2] is an American artist, known for his paintings, burin engravings, and drawings on fictional and autobiographical narratives of contemporary American life.
Biography
In 1984 Raftery earned his B.F.A. in painting from Boston University and in 1988 he completed his M.F.A. in printmaking from Yale University.[3] He is currently a professor at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) teaching in the printmaking and painting department since 1991.[3]
In 2004 Raftery's work was featured in Jonathan Weinberg’s book, Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art.[4] 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).[5]
In 2009 he was elected as an academic member of the National Academy in New York City.[6][7]
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,[8] Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2003,[3] the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award in 2006,[3] John R. Frazier Award for excellence in teaching from RISD in 2007[9] and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2008.[3]
Collections
His work is included in the collections of the following;
- Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy Andover, Andover, MA;[10]
- British Museum, London, UK;[11]
- Cleveland Museum of Art;[12]
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.;
- Davis Museum at Wellesley College, MA;
- Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT;
- Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT;[13]
- Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;[14]
- Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA;
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;[12]
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN;[10]
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA;[11]
- New York Public Library, New York;[14]
- Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ;[10]
- RISD Museum, Providence, RI;[15]
- Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS;[2]
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;[12]
- Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX;
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT;[16]
- Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ;
References
- ↑ "Speaker Poptech 2015". Poptech Conference 2015. 2015. Retrieved 2017-06-21.
- 1 2 "xy Exhibitions". Spencer Museum of Art. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Fellows: Andrew Stein Raftery". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ↑ Weinberg, Jonathan (2004). Male desire: the homoerotic in American art. H.N. Abrams. ISBN 0810958945.
- ↑ "Publications: Catalog for Brilliant Line". RISD Museum. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ↑ "Artists Robert Birmelin, Richard Bosman, Ann Chernow and Andrew Raftery discuss narrative prints with Jonathan Weinberg". Absolute Arts. 5 June 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ↑ "National, Living Academicians". National Academy Museum. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ↑ "Raftery, Andrew". National Academy Museum. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
- ↑ "RISD CSI, Call for Nominations: John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching". csi.risd.edu. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- 1 2 3 "Andrew Raftery, Panel 5". Printmaking in the Expanded Field (PITEF). 2015. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
- 1 2 "Andrew Raftery". The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA). Retrieved 2016-06-17.
- 1 2 3 "School of Art, Printmaking". University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ↑ "Andrew Raftery: Open House". University of Vermont, Fleming Museum of Art. University of Vermont. 2011. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
- 1 2 "Raftery, Andrew". National Academy Museum. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ↑ "Scene Three – Objects - RISD MUSEUM". risdmuseum.org. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ↑ "Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible". Philoctetes Center. 2008. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
External links
- Andrew Raftery's RISD printmaking department profile
- Video: Labor That Makes Beauty from PopTech (2015)
- Video: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible (2008), roundtable with Diane O'Donoghue (moderator), Mary Bergstein, Abigail Gillman, Bennett Simon, Andrew Stein Raftery
- The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow Profile (2008)
- Andrew Raftery's National Academy profile