andrew saftel
panel session f1: wELL ROUNDED: INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT IN PRINTMAKING
Red Grooms Awards ceremony and discussion
Andrew Saftel was raised in Rhode Island. He received a BFA. with an emphasis on Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. In summers before and during art school he worked in the carnival, as a sign painter, and as a printer at Experimental Workshop in San Francisco, where he assisted others artists by printing editions of woodcuts, etchings, and paper sculptures, and making multiples in other media. In the mid 1980s, he relocated to Knoxville, set up a studio and continued making paintings on wood panels that were inspired by the carved and stained woodblocks left from printing projects at Experimental Workshop. He also began making sculptures from assorted materials, which were influenced both by his work teaching art to children, and by southern folk art and the many self-taught artists of the region who were working at their peak in the late 1980s. By the early 1990s, Saftel’s successful exhibitions at galleries in Knoxville, Nashville, Denver, and Atlanta were enabling him to focus solely on studio work. He has since had over forty solo exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, prints and collages in galleries and museums across the country. He is the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission and was selected to travel to Israel as part of a Tennessee/Israel Art Exchange. He was invited to Bangladesh in 2010 to teach and exhibit under a U.S. Embassy Dhaka Visual Arts Initiative. That same year, in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico, he produced the “La Frontera” print series consisting of a 30 x 60 inch color woodcut and four 14 x 14 inch drypoint etchings, a project partially funded by a Tennessee Arts Commission Professional Development Grant. Saftel’s work can be found in the collections of the Knoxville Museum of Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Tennessee State Museum, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, Nashville International Airport, the Knoxville Convention Center, the Music City Center, and in many private and corporate collections.
www.andrewsaftel.com
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