Andrew Raftery: Labor that makes beauty
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Master engraver and printmaker Andrew Raftery discusses a recent project that draws from a range of mediums, time periods and cultures. His creation is contemporary fine art that challenges the meaning of “contemporary.”
Andrew Stein Raftery is a printmaker specializing in narrative scenes of contemporary American life. Trained in painting and printmaking at Boston University and Yale, he has focused on burin engraving for the past 17 years, publishing the portfolios Suit Shopping in 2002 and Open House in 2008. Andrew’s current project (working title: The Autobiography of a Garden in Twelve Plates) involves transfer printing from engraving onto pottery.
