{"id":96,"date":"2015-07-05T20:26:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T20:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bpfink.com\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2016-02-08T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T16:05:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bpfink.com\/?page_id=96","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sculptor<\/a>Bruce P. Fink<\/strong><\/p>\n

Work has been published and featured by:<\/b><\/p>\n

DIVERSION MAGAZINE Dream Home Section,<\/b><\/span>\u00a0HOUSE & GARDEN Magazine Innovative Building<\/b><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>PLAYBOY<\/b><\/span>\u00a0Magazine and their In-house Publications numerous times,\u00a0<\/span>THE GUILD ARCHITECT\u2019S SOURCEBOOK<\/b><\/span>\u00a0of Fine Art 9 times,\u00a0<\/span>ART CASTING JOURNAL\u00a0<\/b><\/span>feature series 2000 & 2001, and\u00a0RODALE PRESS Design Books<\/b><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Education:\u00a0<\/b><\/span>American Academy of Art<\/b><\/span>, Chicago, Advertising Art Major 1 yr.<\/div>\n

University of Illinois<\/b><\/span>, Champaign \/ Urbana: Industrial Design BFA with Sculpture and Fine Art majors 6 yr.<\/p>\n

Upon Graduation:<\/b><\/span>\u00a0Redesigned and Constructed over 18 individual FOUNDRY CASTING ARRANGEMENTS for self and differing schools and artists.<\/p>\n

1965-68:<\/strong>\u00a0Layton School of Art<\/b><\/span>, Instructor and head of Sculpture Dept. (now known as the\u00a0Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design<\/b><\/span>)<\/p>\n

1969-72:<\/strong>\u00a0Rhode Island School of Design<\/b><\/span>: Foundry and Fabrication Instructor<\/p>\n

1970<\/strong>\u00a0Directed & arranged student and faculty exhibits for the\u00a0International Foundrymen\u2019s Conference<\/b><\/span>, Cleveland and Montreal, Canada<\/p>\n

Present<\/strong>: Full time Sculptor \/ Designer doing a series of site specific and general commissions for establishments around the USA, Canada, Mexico and South America, Australia and Europe in a variety of media including cast and molten sprayed bronze, copper and aluminum often doubling as doors, gates and entries as well as Garden Sculptures in sited remote areas.<\/div>\n

Designed<\/b><\/span>\u00a0and subcontracted 12 custom solar and energy saving homes with sculptural form features while training others, students, and college graduates\u00a0with often innovative building systems<\/span>\u00a0in commercial and native media.<\/p>\n

1991-Present:<\/strong>\u00a0Started conducting several yearly classes for special needs and family stressed groups through the\u00a0United Health Services Department of Connecticut\u00a0<\/b><\/span>and\u00a0UPTYME of Rhode Island<\/b><\/span>\u00a0(a prevention and Early Intervention Training Service) to promote creative outlets and discoveries in areas and media that are seldom conventionally touched.<\/p>\n

1993 to 2001<\/strong>: Opened an additional Studio in Hawaii for personal study of tropical plants and ocean life while also diving, painting and working with Lanai natives. Set up a funded community fabrication workshop\/studio for native arts in the heart of Lanai City,<\/p>\n

2001-02:<\/strong>\u00a0Visiting Artist in Residence \/ Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts<\/b><\/span>\u00a0on the Island of Lana`i, Hawaii while creating a 22 Ft. tall bronze and mixed media sculpture with participatory interactions of the locals and students of the Lana`i K-12 Island Public School.<\/p>\n

Career:<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/b>Presently continue doing sculpture and site specific commissions often working with directed desires of Architects and Designers while occasionally employing or contracting custom professionals per commission when executing larger scale public works. Sculptures are usually fabricated, metalized and cast in blended combinations ranging in sizes from small hand held to several tons and stories tall for site specific installations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Also visit Bruce at<\/strong><\/p>\n

CodaWorx<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bruce P. Fink Work has been published and featured by: DIVERSION MAGAZINE Dream Home Section,\u00a0HOUSE & GARDEN Magazine Innovative Building,\u00a0PLAYBOY\u00a0Magazine and their In-house Publications numerous times,\u00a0THE GUILD ARCHITECT\u2019S SOURCEBOOK\u00a0of Fine Art 9 times,\u00a0ART CASTING JOURNAL\u00a0feature series 2000 & 2001, and\u00a0RODALE PRESS Design Books. Education:\u00a0American Academy of Art, Chicago, Advertising Art Major 1 yr. University of Illinois, Champaign \/ Urbana: Industrial Design BFA with Sculpture and Fine Art majors 6 yr. Upon Graduation:\u00a0Redesigned and Constructed over 18 individual FOUNDRY CASTING ARRANGEMENTS for self and differing schools and artists. 1965-68:\u00a0Layton School of Art, Instructor and head of Sculpture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bpfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bpfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/bpfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"http:\/\/bpfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}