Richard Bosman

Richard Bosman (born 1944 in Madras, India) is an Australian-American artist living and working in the Hudson Valley of New York State. He is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York.[1] Bosman is best known for his paintings and prints. His work is often related to crime, adventure, and disaster narratives; rural Americana; and nature and domestic themes.[2] He is associated with the Neo-Expressionist movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s,[3] which includes artists such as Eric Fischl and Leon Golub.

Bosman was a member of Colab, the New York artist collective founded in 1977, and participated in the group's influential 1980 “Times Square Show.”[4]

Bosman's early paintings and prints drew on pop culture representations of violence and romance, including pulp fiction book illustration. More recently he has created woodcuts depicting turbulent seascapes, volcanoes, Adirondack scenes and other imagery, displaying what New York Times critic Roberta Smith called a “penchant for parody-homage” toward his subjects. Writing in the Times, Smith stated: “Mr. Bosman's luxuriant, dashed-off brushwork brings a quality at once antic and powerful to expanses of trees, water and wood grain and staring deer, both living and stuffed.”[5]

Education

Bosman attended the Bryam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing, London, from 1964 to 1969. He settled in New York City in 1969, attending the New York Studio School until 1971.[6] At the Studio School Bosman's instructors included Philip Guston and Alex Katz. Bosman studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, in 1970.

Exhibitions & Collections

For several decades, Bosman's work has been exhibited internationally and is included in numerous public art and museum collections. In 1980, Brooke Alexander Gallery in New York hosted Bosman's first solo exhibition. In addition to showing regularly at Brooke Alexander from 1980 to 1994 and at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, from 2003 to 2018, Bosman's paintings and prints have been exhibited in solo shows at The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Tex.; Galleria Toselli, Milan; and William Mora Galleries (Melbourne, Australia), among others. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at galleries and institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Brooklyn Museum.

Bosman's works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art;[7] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;[8] the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.;[9] the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; the Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;[10] and the Whitney Museum.[11]

Books

Bosman has published three books: The Captivity Narrative of Hannah Duston, Related by Cotton Mather, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau: Woodcuts by Richard Bosman (1987, Arion Press, San Francisco), Grasping at Emptiness: Poems by John Giorno, Drawings by Richard Bosman (1985, Kulchur Foundation, New York), and Exit the Face: Poems by Ted Greenwald, Drawings by Richard Bosman (1982, Museum of Modern Art, New York).

References
  1. "Richard Bosman". Nicelle Beauchene Gallery.
  2. "Richard Bosman," Artspace.com
  3. Ken Johnson, "The Listing; Richard Bosman," The New York Times, Oct. 20, 2004.
  4. Deitch, Jeffrey, "Report from Times Square," Art in America, September 1980.
  5. Roberta Smith, "Art in Review; Richard Bosman," The New York Times, May 16, 2003.
  6. "Richard Bosman," ArtFacts.net.
  7. "The Collection," MoMA.org.
  8. "The Met Collection," MetMuseum.org.
  9. "Collection," NGA.gov.
  10. "Collection," MOCA.org.
  11. "Collection," Whitney.org.


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