From time to time I’ve profiled American artists I like, artists whose young age or medium keeps them from getting headlines. Angela Lorenz, for instance, makes the most inventive artist’s books, and these objects are precious and erudite. They’re not for the masses or the showy rich. Sheila Hicks is a fiber artist or, more precisely, a sculptor in textile. She’s well known, but fiber art’s a niche. Henri-Paul Broyard is a superb young painter whose dealer, Grant Wahlquist, is in Portland, Maine, not in beaten-track Manhattan. James Prosek is a young environmental artist, writer, and filmmaker, and the Audubon of fish.
Today I’ll write about Andrew Raftery (b. 1962), a master printmaker who lives in Providence and teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. I say “master” not only because his prints are technically first-rate. He channels the Old Master engravers such as Dürer, Goltzius, Robert Nanteuil, and Lucas van Leyden in a totally modern way.
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