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Autobiography of a Garden in Twelve Engraved Plates” is Andrew Raftery’s first show at Ryan Lee Gallery in New York and the culmination of an eight-year project. An accomplished and recognized painter and engraver, Raftery lives in Providence, RI, and Brooklyn, NY and has been Professor of Printmaking at RISD since 1991. I met with him in Providence in late July, in his 4th-floor studio inside the historic Grace Church, a gothic landmark dating from 1846.
The church bells chime on the hour and Raftery is pressed for time. At completion, the show will consist of 12 16-inch tondo paintings and a portfolio of 12 earthenware plates with transfer prints from Raftery’s engravings. Each plate depicts a solitary, middle-aged man, (the artist) working with great determination in an ornamental garden, chronicling every month of the year and his corresponding duties in the garden from inception to fruition, decline to dormancy. In January we see him in his bed reading seed catalogs, in March he is watering, in April digging out the lettuce bed. Cut to November and he’s taking out the dahlia tubers. Lastly, in December, he’s standing in the snow contemplating the next year’s planting.
The depth and wit of the narrative are conveyed with concise lines on luminous glazed and dynamically shaped plates. These will be displayed against thematically-coordinated wallpaper so that a complete world is presented through mastery of narrative detail and marvelous skill. There is both satire and profundity, and the lone gardener’s Promethean toil in his small but precious plot reminds us of our own struggle against time and the elements. But while contemplating the smallness and beauty of our single lives, the appreciative viewer might not fully grasp the extensive process behind this artistry; the number of people and inventions cultivated for this project: that ink was formulated, ceramic glazes invented, original plate shapes created and named, and wallpaper designed and printed. And then, of course, there’s the work of tending the garden, and it’s most important collaborator, the artist’s mother.
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Garden Lecture: Autobiography of a Garden
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Dates & Price
Friday, April 6, 2018
6:30–8:00 pm
Fee: $25
Gardens Premium and Gardens Preferred Members: $20
About this Lecture
Join us for an evening lecture followed by a wine and cheese reception. Engraver and artist Andrew Raftery created Autobiography of a Garden, an installation of 12 earthenware plates transfer-printed with engravings that depict the gardening tasks he undertook each month of the year in his mother’s garden. Explore this horticulturally driven work as Andrew shares insights into the relationship between nature’s inherent rhythms, the garden as inspiration, and the eight-year creation process of this unique installation, which will be on display during and after the lecture.
Andrew Raftery is an award-winning printmaker specializing in scenes of contemporary American life and a professor of printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been featured in exhibitions across the US and is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and many others.
This event is co-sponsored by the Garden Conservancy and Longwood Gardens. Garden Conservancy Society of Fellow members are free of charge and should call Cara Schaffer at the Garden Conservancy, 845.424.6500, to register.
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Andrew Raftery
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Ballroom
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