Andrew Raftery: The Autobiography of a Garden
Image courtesy of Andrew Raftery and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
Conservatory of Flowers
Wed, Sep 26, 2018
6:00 PM
The Autobiography of a Garden is an installation of twelve earthenware plates transfer-printed with engraving that shows artist Andrew Raftery going through the year performing gardening tasks appropriate to each month—a contemporary response to the medieval book of hours.
The garden at Raftery's mother's home in Providence, Rhode Island, is both the inspiration for his artwork and a separate creative entity in its own right. In this talk, Raftery will discuss the relationship between the eight years it took to develop this project and the constantly renewing cycles inherent to gardening.
DATE AND TIME
Wednesday, September 26
6:00 p.m. Reception
6:30 p.m. Illustrated talk
LOCATION
Conservatory of Flowers - Orchid Pavilion
100 John F. Kennedy Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
REGISTRATION
Online registration has now closed. Further registrations will be accepted at the door, space permitting.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andrew Raftery, a professor of printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design, is an avid gardener and 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. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of Art, British Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2003, Andrew received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and in 2008 he was a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was elected to membership in the National Academy in 2009 and to the Print Council of America in 2012.
Above image from The Autobiography of a Garden exhibition, courtesy of Andrew Raftery