Bosko's creations are all hand-carved from solid California redwood, which is known for its long-lasting beauty and natural resistance to decay.  This is not the case with many of today's carvings offered by other companies, which use wood harvested from ancient rain forests in third world countries, destroying those forests and further contributing to the depletion of Earth's ozone layer.  We exclusively use the fast-growing redwood:  it is the USA' s most renewable building material, and state law requires harvest-sites to be promptly replanted.  In fact, due to strict laws there are more redwoods today than when man first harvested the trees.  And all our creations are carved here in Southern California by skilled artisans.

Biography

Bosko was born in Los Angeles 1963 and raised in Southern California's San Gabriel valley amongst its mid-century splendor. He received a B.F.A. in 1988 from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Although best known for his Tiki sculptures (seen on  www.tikibosko.com ), ceramics and design work, his current artistic endeavors include paintings,  and three dimensional assemblages.  Our newest wood art line was inspired by  Mr. William Westenhaver's designs for his legendary company of Witco who outfitted rooms for Elvis Presley, Hugh Hefner among others and hundreds of mid century commercial establishments.   After meeting Mr. Westenhaver in the mid 90's Bosko became spellbound with the Witco Decor fine art line which was carved by hand yet created on an assembly line, you can view it's effect on Bosko's work on our framed page.

Bosko lives on an exotic jungle-like compound in the foot hills of North San Diego County, with his multi-talented dream wife and two sons.  His work has been exhibited at:  La Luz De Jesus, Track 16, Outré gallery, Tamara Bane, Roc La Rue, Huntington Beach Art Center, Copro Nason gallery, M-Modern gallery, Minna gallery, M-1 gallery, Beyond Baroque, Rita Dean gallery and many others throughout the world.  In addition to that Bosko has outfitted  and designed numerous commercial  spaces and private residences with his custom wood carvings.