Description
American Kestrel (2011) is 24 x18 acrylic on wood panel.
From a series of birds native to Tennessee where the artist resides. Painted in 2011.
A kestrel is the smallest raptor in North America, weighing 3-6 oz. They are a colorful bird with astounding acrobatic abilities and swift flying skills.
This piece has a value of $6500.
Artist Bio:
Andrew Saftel was raised in Rhode Island and was a student at St. Andrew's School, graduating in 1977. He went on to receive a B.F.A. with an emphasis on Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. After working in the carnival, as a sign painter and a printer at the Experimental Workshop in San Francisco, where he worked with artists printing editions of woodcuts, etchings and paper sculptures, he relocated to Knoxville , Tennessee in the mid- nineteen eighties. He set up a studio and continued experimenting with paintings on wood panels, found object and wood sculptures and works on paper, influenced by his work teaching art to children and by the southern Folk Artists.
Saftel began exhibiting his work in galleries in Knoxville, Nashville, Denver and Atlanta, leading him to let go of other jobs and focus on his studio work. He has since had over forty solo exhibitions of his paintings, sculptures, prints and collages in Galleries and Museums across the country. He received a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant from the TN Arts Commission and was selected for the Tennessee/Israel Art Exchange. He traveled to Bangladesh in 2010 and 2014 to teach and exhibit under a U.S. Embassy Dhaka Visual Arts Initiative. In Patzcuaro, Mexico he produced the ?La Frontera? print series consisting of a 30?x60? color woodcut and four 14?x14? drypoint etchings containing imagery related to the border. This project was partially funded by a TN Arts Commission Professional Development Grant. His work is in the collection of the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Tennessee State Museum, the Hunter Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, the Knoxville Convention Center and many private collections.
Item Special Note
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