Biography

“Early in the morning, before I am truly awake, I know, or see what I shall paint. The theme is established when I arrive at the studio. It is always in my mind, and sometimes the idea will surface when I least expect. One day, in the year 2000, I wondered why I was still teaching through my painting. I showed what is important to me and therefore to you-directing thought. That day, I poured the paint onto the canvas, and pushed the paint across the surface.”

“I like this work. I never know where they will end up, or if it will be a “keeper”. That is the reason I call those pieces the Nomads, because they do wander.”

Biganess Livingstone received a painting grant from the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, Radcliffe College, early in her career. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Massachusetts College of Art and a Master of Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Biganess was Professor of Art at University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley, Menasha, for seventeen years before relocating to the California Bay Area in 1993.

A Livingstone bio is included in “Who’s Who in American Art", 2010. Among the collectors of her work are the Chase Manhattan Bank, NY; the School of Engineering, University of-Madison; Schiff Hardin & Waite, Attorneys at Law, Chicago; and Goldberg Moser O’Neill Advertising, San Francisco, CA. Biganess maintaines a studio since 1993, in the Old Arsenal Artists Community, 991Tyler Street, Number 216, Benicia, CA. .