Date: Fri 27-Feb-1998

Publication: Ant

Author: DONNAM

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Tiffany

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Tiffany Foundation Awards 32 Visual Artists

NEW YORK CITY -- the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation has announced that 32

visual artists are the winners of the foundation's 1997 Biennial Competition.

The foundation awards grants of $20,000 to each recipient in recognition of

artists (painters, sculptors, photographers and crafts people) whose work

shows promise but who have not yet received widespread critical or commercial

recognition.

Tiffany's 1997 cash awards total $640,000, the largest distribution in the

foundation's history. The announcement of these awards coincides with the 80th

anniversary of the foundation, one of the largest single sources of grants to

individual artists.

The jury was composed of the artists William Bailey, Amalia Mesa-Bains and

Judy Pfaff, and curators Alison de Lima Greene, Marc Mayer, John Perreault and

Robert Storr. This year's winners were chosen from more than 264 nominees

proposed by the foundation's trustees, previous recipients, and regional

nominators from around the country, including artists, critics and museum

professionals.

In addition to the monetary awards, the foundation promotes the work of the

selected emerging artists by producing and disseminating to the field a

catalogue documenting their achievements.

This year's recipients are Anne Agee of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Dexter Buell of

Brooklyn, N.Y.; Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons of Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Enrique

Chagoya of San Francisco, Calif.; Anne Chu of New York City;

Cohen/Frank/Ippolito of New York City; Bryan Crockett of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Bill

Davenport of Houston, Tex.; Kim Dingle of Los Angeles, Calif.; John Dury of

New York City; Jacob El Hanani of New York City; Jeff Elrod of Houston, Tex.;

Rochelle Feinstein of New York City; Pamela Fraser of Brooklyn, N.Y.; David

Gloman of North Hampton, Mass.; DeWitt Godfrey of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Maria Elena

Gonzalez of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Arturo Herrera of Chicago, Ill.; Eric Holzman of

New York City; Richard Jackson of Sierra Madre, Calif.; Ik-Joong Kang of New

York City; Samm Kunce of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Judy Ledgerwood of Oak Park, Ill.;

Tierney Malone of Houston, Tex.; Virgil Marti of Philadelphia, Penn.; David

Moreno of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Bruce Pearson of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Monique Prieto of

Los Angeles, Calif.; Glen Seator of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Shahzia Sikander of

Houston, Tex.; Jonathan Wahl of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Richard Ziemann of

Chester, Conn.