Guest Lectures with Gretchen Wagner, Curatorial Assistant from the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Prints and Printmaker Andrew Raftery
AS220 Gallery/Performance Space 115 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903
September 20th, 2008 6:30 pm
The AS220 Community Printshop is extremely pleased to announce that professor, scholar and printmaker Andrew Raftery will be joining us, along with Gretchen Wagner, Curatorial Assistant from the Department of Prints and Illustrated books from the Museum of Modern Art, on Saturday, the 20th of September, for two very special guest lectures. Andrew Raftery (MFA, Yale University School of Art), a printmaker specializing in narrative engravings of contemporary American life, is an associate professor in the department of printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design. Raftery recently received a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, and will use the fellowship period to complete an engraving project he's been working on for several years. The works will be exhibited in a solo show at New York City's Mary Ryan Gallery in October. His work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery and the New York Public Library.
Gretchen L. Wagner (MA, Williams College) is a curatorial assistant in the department of prints and illustrated books at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Wagner has curated exhibitions at the D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY, the Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, among other institutions, in addition to acting on the programming and curatorial committees for WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution and Greater New York 2005 at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY. Following contemporary developments in printmaking The Museum of Modern Art has recently acquired several projects by artists such as Gabriel Orozco, Nicola López, Nicolas Lampert, and Swoon, among others. This presentation will introduce some recent acquisitions of Moma's collection, speak to challenges involved in the display of these artworks, and pursue an investigation of recent trends in printmaking and its impact on art produced in all mediums.
These lectures are an exciting part of print month at AS220, celebrating the one year anniversary of Rhode Island's only public community printshop. September's events will culminate in a fundraising Print Lottery featuring 200 prints and works on paper, now on exhibition in the performance space at 115 Empire Street.
This event is made possible through support from:
