Richard Bosman is a painter and printmaker known for his woodcuts depicting turbulent seascapes. In the early 1980s, Bosman heralded the return of representation with dramatic paintings that recalled the drama and dark romance of sensationalist crime photography and pulp fiction. Later in his career, he moved away from manmade drama, opting to depict instead the natural phenomena of volcanoes, ebbing tides, and crashing waves. It's tempting to peg Bosman as a die-hard expressionist, using the ocean as a symbolic vehicle for the mystery of our emotional and spiritual depths. Nevertheless, his paintings of bathing beauties and waterlogged sailors have a kitschy, undeniably Pop sensibility.
Bosman was born in Madras, India and lives and works in Esopus, NY. He studied painting at the Byam Shaw School of Art, London, The New York Studio School in New York and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan Maine. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award in the Visual Arts.
