Frank Bosco curricula vitae - RISD

Frank Bosco

279 Pine Street
Jersey City, New Jersey 07304
h. 201-432-9315
c. 201-988-0907
Email: [email protected]
URL: www.nynjceramics.com

MFA Alfred University College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY 1980

BFA Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI 1978

Teaching Experience

Rhode Island School of Design 1993-present

Providence RI

Title: Senior Critic/Ceramics

• Courses taught (by title): Slip Cast Ceramic Object; Topics in Ceramic Material Science; Senior and

Graduate Seminar; Drawing Takes Form in Clay; Ceramics: A Sculptural Perspective; Clay in Context.

• Participates on graduate thesis committees, as well as mid term and final critical reviews committees.

Additional Initiatives

• Established student and faculty advisor committees.

• Assembled and authored two in-depth source books used by students in the following courses:

Slip cast Ceramic Object and Topics in Ceramic Material Science.

• Developed and integrated facilities for mold making and slip casting; extruding and die making; raw

material lab organization; general studio organizational systems.

New York/New Jersey Academy of Ceramic Art 1997-present

Jersey City NJ
Title: Founder, CEO, and Faculty

The academy is a for-profit Limited Liability Corporation that serves the metropolitan New York City

region. Students include artists, designers, and teachers, filmmakers who engage in ceramic studio art as

a serious and creative enterprise.

• Courses taught (by title): Wheel-thrown Pottery and Form; Hand built Pottery and Form; Science

Primer for the Ceramic Artist; Dimensions in Tile; Slip cast Porcelain Tile; Raku workshop.

St. Peter’s College 2002-present

Jersey City NJ

Title: Adjunct Professor/Fine Arts

• Courses taught: Ceramic Workshop

The NY/NJ Academy of Ceramic Art is the studio for this course in collaboration with St. Peter’s,

where matriculated students earn degree credit.

Parsons School of Design 1988-99
New York NY
Title: Instructor

• Courses taught (by titles): Wheel thrown Pottery; Building with Extruded Clay forms; Raw Material

Science.

Rutgers University 1997
New Brunswick NJ

Title: Sabbatical replacement/Ceramics

• Course taught: Ceramic Sculpture

Teaching continued

Drew University 1992-96
Madison NJ
Title: Adjunct Professor/Fine Arts

• Course taught (by title): Basic Ceramic Studio; 2-D Design; Figure Drawing.
• Additional Initiatives: Retooled, restructured lab and facility.

Collaborative Projects

Abstract Painter Frank Stella 1980-85

Responsibilities include major contributions in form design, color, development of the ceramic processes
used, and design and fabrication of metal support systems, supervisory role at the foundry locations and
during exhibition installation. Two series of projects were created: A series of seven ceramic relief
sculptures, and a series of eleven relief sculptures molded from extruded ceramic models which were
then cast into steel. Both series of works were exhibited at the Knoedler Gallery in London in1985.
• First–person narrative:

I met Frank Stella in 1980 while working a day job for the London based fine art printing firm the
Petersburg Press. Stella, who then learned of my background in Ceramics, challenged me to recreate one of his
metal reliefs in clay for a possible limited edition series. Stella then asked for my input with respect to the design
of clay elements and ceramic pigments I would inlay into the cast clay elements, thus signaling our rapport and
collaboration was born.

Working alone and with Stella from my studio in Jersey from 1980-83, seven unique slip-cast relief
sculptures were created. This marked a turning point in Frank Stella’s output heretofore and a shift from painting
into 3-D relief and sculpture. These ceramic works also marked the beginning of a series inspired by Herman
Melville’s Moby Dick, which is still a force in Stella’s later work.

On the heal of the first project in 1983, I created vanload of terracotta extruded forms, still leather-hard,
to challenge Stella to a new collaboration. With our rapport cemented, he accepted the challenge and arranged
the forms I created into a series of relief sculptures. These sculptures were then cast in steel at the Talix foundry
in Peekskill NY. For Stella, these works also marked a first in utilizing cast steel as a medium for his art.

Neo-Expressionist Painter James Brown 1985-86

Initiatives include design and development of the creative process in the production of twenty-four
unique terra-cotta entablature-tiles.
• First–person narrative:

In 1985 I received and call and subsequent visit from the English sculptor Andrew Lord who had heard
from dealer Marian Goodman about my recent collaborations with Frank Stella. Lord, who expressed his interest
in collaborating on a ceramic project, suggested another artist, painter James Brown, to step in first. Working
with Brown was a pleasure, as he was extremely receptive to all my suggestions with respect to the tile format,
colors and glazes, and working with unique production, as opposed to a limited edition series. This project took
only about a year to produce and culminated in an exhibition at Castelli Graphics Gallery in New York City.

Grants/Fellowships

NEA/Mid Atlantic Arts Fellowship 2001
New Jersey State Council on the Arts

Artist Development Grant 1999
Rhode Island School of Design

Published Articles/Reviews/Works

Ceramic Art Tile 2001
By Deborah Goletz, Schiffer Books

Extruded Ceramics 2000
By Diana Pancioli, Lark Books

Extruded Ceramics 2000
By John Conrad, Falcon Press

The Extruder Book 2000
By Daryl E. Baird, The American Ceramic Society Press

Handmade Tiles 1994
By Frank Giorgini

Arts Magazine (review) 1991
Title: Frank Bosco, by William Corbet

The South End News (review) 1991

Title: Mother Goosed, by Cate McQuaid

The Boston Globe (review) 1991
Title: Critics Tip, by Nancy Stapen

The New York Times (review) 1990
Title: Narrowing 400 Entries Down to 29, by Vivien Raynor

The Newark Star Ledger (review) 1990
Title: Trio of Jurists Give State's Arts Annual An Avant-garde Edge
By Eileen Watkins

Panels/Workshops

Artist Certification Board 2006-10
City of Jersey, NJ Department of Housing Authority
Purpose: As sworn-in City official, to examine applicant portfolios and credentials for
certification as artists in the city of Jersey City, and eligible to purchase or rent live/work
studios at fifty-percent of market value with tax abatements for twenty years.

Kent State University, Ohio 2008
Workshop: Visiting faculty for summer Blossom Program
Responsibilities included: Teaching mold-making and slip-casting concepts and methodologies;
presentation and discussion of career dossier; participation in group critiques and student
advising.

• First-person narrative:

It was the first time ever that the Department chair, Kirk Mangus, had allowed plaster into the realm of
creative possibilities in this ceramic program.

Panels/Workshops continued
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia 2002

Workshop: Visiting Faculty for summer program.
Responsibilities included: Responsibilities included: Teaching mold-making and slip-casting

concepts and methodologies; presentation and discussion of career dossier; participation in
group critiques and student advising.

Interlaken School of Art, Stockbridge, MA. 1998
Workshop: Visiting Faculty for summer program. Mono-print Ceramic Tile

Responsibilities included: Teaching mold-making and slip-casting concepts for the production of
large-scale tile utilizing my invented process of casting with pigmented porcelain slip.

New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ 1998
Panelist: Role as Arts Advocate

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 1998

New York/New Jersey Academy of Ceramic Art, Jersey City, NJ
Workshop: Tile Painting in the Portuguese Tradition
First-person narrative:

This workshop was a first-time collaboration between my school and the Newark Museum in

conjunction with their exhibition of Portuguese Ceramic Tile. Participants in this workshop used the

Academy as the studio to produce their tiles. I provided my expertise in teaching the process, equipment,

and materials.

Selected Exhibitions

Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2010

Ceramic Department Group Show Curated

Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2005

Faculty Triennial Curated

Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ 2004 Juried
New Jersey Arts Annual/Cache: New Horizons

Worcester Center for the Arts, Worcester, MA. 2003
Faculty ExhibitionCurated

Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2003

Small Works Biennial Curated

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ 2002

New Jersey Arts Annual/Beauty and Function-Crafts in the Garden State Juried

Market House Art Center, Lancaster, PA 2002
Tenth Annual Strictly Functional National Juried

Selected Exhibitions continued

Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2002
Ceramics Triennial
Curated

MPI Media Productions International, New York, NY 2001

Take heArt: Post 9-11 Triumph of Hope Juried

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 2001
New Jersey Arts Annual Juried

Morris Museum, Morristown NJ 2000
New Jersey Arts Annual Juried

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 2000
New Jersey Arts Annual/Into the Millennium Juried

Dodge House Gallery, Providence, RI 2000
Ceramic Art: Recent Work Juried

Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY 1999
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Solo

Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1999
RISD Ceramics Curated

Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA 1998
Mid-Atlantic Contemporary Tile Juried

Gallery 10 Ltd., Washington D.C. 1998

Connections Curated

Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY 1998
Then and Now: A Contrast in Styles Curated

PSD-X Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1998
Small Works Curated

Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY 1997
New Work by Gallery Artists Curated

Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY 1997
Philadelphia/New York Connections Curated

Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1997
RISD Ceramics Curated

Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia 1997
RISD Ceramics Curated

PSD-X Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1996
Small Works V Curated

Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1996

Faculty Biennial Curated

Arts Space 534, Monroe County Arts Council, Stroudsburg, PA 1995
Archetypes, Icons, Mythologies Juried

Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1994
Faculty Biennial Curated

Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison NJ 1993
Frank Bosco/Ceramic Paintings
Solo

Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1993

Faculty Exhibition Curated

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX 1993
National Ceramic competition Juried

Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ 1993

Seven Deadly Sins Juried

Genovese Gallery Annex, Boston, MA 1992

Clay/From New Jersey Solo

Genovese Gallery, Boston, MA 1991 Solo
Frank Bosco/Ceramic Paintings and Relief Sculptures

Muhlenberg College of Art, Allentown, PA 1990
Contemporary Art At Muhlenberg Curated

City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ 1990
New Members Curated

Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ 1990

New Jersey Fine Arts Annual Juried

PSD-X Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1990
Small Works 2 Juried

PSD-X Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1990

Faculty Exhibition Curated

Bergan Museum of Arts and Sciences, Paramus, NJ 1984

In A Sense Juried

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1979

In Western New York Curated