Witty and sophisticated designs are the trademark of Luna Parc, the signature of the fertile and zany imagination of its creator, Ricky Boscarino.

One of three artistically gifted siblings, Mr. Boscarino is the pride of Paterson, New Jersey, a city noted for its talented  progeny. This brilliant artist's gene pool is notable for its fecund creativity, and Mr. Boscarino comes from an unbroken generational line of craftspeople and artisans dating back as far as the Medici.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Mr. Boscarino gained further artistic exposure during his period of postgraduate work at the New York University Film School. Upon completion of his academic career, he broadened his horizons extensively as he followed his wanderlust to such exotic and eclectic locales as Thailand, Burma and Spain. He gained much from a glorious year's residence in Rome, where he basked in the creative cultural atmosphere, much as his Renaissance predecessors had before him.

He first caused a stir in the artistic community and captured the fevered attention of the public in the early 80's when, at the very tender age of someteen, he created the unique genre of "RoachArt." Using hitherto unappreciated but ubiquitous cucaracha as an object d'art, Mr. Boscarino created tableaux depicting scenes of everyday life. Boscarino's dioramas received widespread coverage, with extensive articles in People Magazine and the New Yorker and television reportage on PM Magazine and West 57th. The droll antics of his bug stars so appealed to discerning connoisseur that he soon expanded the genre, creating a line of cockroach greeting cards for the American Postcard Company. A cucaracha for every occasion - such is the hallmark of the off-kilter, oft-frivolous, always fertile imagination of Ricky Boscarino.

 While he credits such artists as Anthoni Gaudi, Beatrice Wood and Jean Cocteau as among his strongest creative influences, he derives his greatest and most artistic inspiration from his own atelier and

Ricky at Luna Parc construction site September 2007

Ricky at the pottery wheel October 2004

home, an artistic work-in-progress also called Luna Parc, a name he appropriated from an amusement park in Rome. Mr. Boscarino is artist-in-residence at this fabulous, fanciful and phantasmagoric house, cozily nestled in a forest glade amidst the wilds of woodland New Jersey. Surrounded by an elaborate profusion of flora and populated by an exotic menagerie of fauna ranging from pigs to peacocks, this Luna Parc provides a constant source of inspiration for its creator. A random visitor would likely find the master sketching his latest designs in his "Cement Garden," so-called for the imaginative, larger than life concrete sculptures. 

Named Richard by his prescient parents for Richard the Lionhearted, Ricky is truly a Renaissance man. A multi-media artist, he moves comfortably from clay to wood, from cement to metal. A gifted ceramist as he is a metalsmith, each piece of his work is unique and individual, and each is instantly identifiable as a product of this wonderful artist's vivid and fevered imagination. Ricky Boscarino is a rarity even among his artist peers, known across the galaxy for visionary creations that bear the unmistakable Luna Parc signature.

Luna Parc stands alone as a source of work that is fanciful and sophisticated, frivolous and wild.