Andrew Raftery

Suit Shopping (scenes 1 and 2), Copperplate engraving, 19 x 24 inches (diptych).

Suit Shopping (scenes 3, 4, and 5), Copperplate engraving, 19 x 41 inches (triptych).

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Goldsboro, North Carolina, 1962
Resides: Providence, Rhode Island, and Brooklyn, New York
Education: Yale University School of Art ( M.F.A., 1988); Boston University School for the Arts (B.F.A., 1984)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2002
“Real Estate Chiaroscuros and Other Prints of Commerce,” Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island.

1998
“Andrew Raftery: The Narrative Impulse,” Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Catalogue.
“Drawings and Prints,” Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island.
“A Shopper’s Paradise,” Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco.

1994
“Narrative Paintings and Prints,” Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003
“Newer Genres: Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archive for Printmaking Studios,” Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
“Boston Printmakers 2003 North American Print Exhibition,” 808 Gallery, Boston. Catalogue.
“Seven Contemporary Etchers,” New Bedford Art Museum, Massachusetts.
“South Coast New England Printmaking,” University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth. Catalogue.
“Teaching the New Realism: Mentors and Protégés,” Vose Galleries, Boston.

2002
“Suit Shopping: An Engraved Narrative,” Mary Ryan Gallery at the IFPDA Print Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York.
“Pushing Paper: Prints and Books from Pyramid Atlantic,” Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia.
“New Prints 2002/Summer,” International Print Center, New York. Catalogue.

2001
“Prints from Mimosa Press,” Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri.
“Boston Printmakers’ Invitational Exhibition of New England Printmaking Faculty,” Boston University Art Gallery, Boston.
“Media/Matrix,” George Mason University Art Gallery, Fairfax, Virginia.

2000
“Bon à Tirer,” George Sherman Gallery, Boston.

1998
“Director’s Choice: Recent Acquisitions,” Frye Art Museum, Seattle.
“Drawn from the Collection: Part of the Fabric,” Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence.

1997
“Tenth Anniversary Exhibition,” Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco.
“Figuring Memory,” Wheeler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island.

1996
“RISD Collects RISD,” Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence.

1995
“National Invitational Print Exhibition,” Kreft Center for the Arts, Concordia College, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“Invitational Exhibition of Prints,” University of Texas, El Paso.
“Boston University Visual Arts Alumni Drawing Exhibition,” Boston University Art Gallery, Boston.

1993
“Objects and Everyday Life,” Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts.
“Boston Printmakers’ 44th North American Print Exhibition,” Boston University Art Gallery.
“National Printmaking Exhibition,” Lycoming State College, Williamsport, Virginia.

Selected Bibliography

2002
Hirsch, Faye. “Working Proof, Suit Shopping: An Engraved Narrative,” Art on Paper (November-December).

1996
Bass, Ruth. “Realism: When a Rose is a Rose,” Artnews (February).

1995
Parks, John A. “Portraying the World as He Finds It: The Narrative Paintings of Andrew Raftery,” American Artist (September).

1994
Brody, Jackie. “Prints and Photographs Published,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter (November-December).