Nationality American Known for Burin engraving | Name Andrew Raftery | |
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Andrew raftery
Andrew Stein Raftery (born May 22, 1962 in Goldsboro, North Carolina) is an American artist, known for his paintings, burin engravings, and drawings on fictional and autobiographical narratives of contemporary American life.
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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. He is currently a professor at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) teaching in the printmaking and painting department since 1991.
In 2004 Raftery's work was featured in Jonathan Weinberg’s book, Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art. 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).
In 2009 he was elected as an academic member of the National Academy in New York City.
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, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2003, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award in 2006, John R. Frazier Award for excellence in teaching from RISD in 2007 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2008.
Collections
His work is included in the collections of the following;