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BIGANESS LIVINGSTONE
100 Little River Court – 2, Vallejo, CA 94591 (707) 557 – 0321 Studio Address: 991 Tyler Street, #216, Benicia, CA Links: www.georgesugarmanfoundation.com www.artsbenicia.org Web Site: www.biganess.com Email: biglives@pacbell.net Biganess Livingstone received a painting grant from Radcliffe College, Bunting Institute For Independent Study, early in her career. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from Massachusetts College of Art, and a Master of Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Biganess was Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin –Fox Valley before relocating in 1993 from Massachusetts, her birth-state, to the California Bay Area. In Wisconsin, she served on the Artist Advisory Board at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and on the Projects Review Panel at the Wisconsin Arts Board. Livingstone received two painting grant from the Arts Board and a 2%for Art Purchase award. In California, she was chosen by the Claudia Chapline Gallery for “Introductions’95”. Biganess was awarded a two-person solo by the Director of the Crocker Art Museum Stephen McGough, at the 750 Gallery in Sacramento. Since 2000, her exhibition activity includes a solo at the allen/thomas Gallery, Neenah, Wisconsin ; group exhibitions at the Richmond Art Center, California; Rahr West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin; and the Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. Biganess is a recipient of a 2003 painting grant from the George Sugarman Foundation. Biganess has been a juror for the Cudahy Gallery, Milwaukee Museum in Wisconsin, and the Fairfeild Visual Art Exhibition, CA. A Livingstone biography is printed in Who’s Who in American Art. Among the collectors of her work are Goldberg Moser O’Neill Advertising, San Francisco; Chase Manhattan Bank, NY, NY; School of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Attorneys at Law, Sears Tower, Chicago. Biganess maintaines a studio in the Old Arsenal Artists Community in Benicia, California. |