Local Artist Receives Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant

NEW YORK CITY — The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation in New York City announces the selection of twenty artists to receive its 48th annual Individual Support Grants. A panel of five independent jurors reviewed applications submitted to the Foundation by 865 artists from 58 countries. Each of the following visual artists was chosen to receive an award of $25,000:

Elise Adibi

Pittsburgh, PA 

J Stoner Blackwell

Bennington, VT 

Buddy Bunting 

Seattle, WA

Edgar Cano 

Natchitoches, LA

Michelle Charles

London, United Kingdom 

Lynn Fulton 

Southwell, United Kingdom 

Carrie Gundersdorf 

Brooklyn, NY 

Sharon Hall 

London, United Kingdom 

Annie Hayes

Delhi, NY

Frederick Hayes

Brooklyn, NY 

Kaoru Hirano

Hiroshima, Japan

Bryan Ida

Los Angeles, CA 

Jason Karolak

Brooklyn, NY 

Lauris Mīlbrets

Riga, Latvia

Johannes Rave

Stuttgart, Germany 

Jayanta Roy

Kolkata, India

Sanjay Singh

Bangalore, India

Hadi Tabatabai

San Francisco, CA

Michelle Weinberg

New York, NY 

Uroš Weinberge

Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support program was established in 1976 to encourage and recognize mature painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have dedicated their lives to developing their art regardless of their level of commercial success.  

The Foundation also administers the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program, which offers assistance to mature visual artists who have suffered a current or recent catastrophic event. More information about the Foundation and its programs can be found here. Links to an application form for each program may likewise be found on the website.

For additional information, contact Petra Pankow, Grants Manager, at (212) 226-0581 or ppankow@gottliebfoundation.org.

In May of this year, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, based in New York City, selected Delhi resident Annie Hayes as one of 20 recipients of an Individual Artist Support grant from a pool of 865 artists from 58 countries. The grant of $25,000 is intended to support visual artists who have maintained a mature working practice for at least 20 years. In addition to sustained dedication artists must also demonstrate financial need.

Hayes said, “I have lived in Delhi for nearly four decades. While earning my living as a freelance consultant and graphic designer, I also worked as an artist, with a primary focus for many years on drawing and printmaking. Currently my focus is on painting, with drawing as an essential aspect of my work. My work can be viewed on my website anniehayesart.com and on Instagram @anniehayesart.”

The artist also added that "I primarily work with discarded packaging that has served its usefulness in storing, transporting and displaying food and commercial goods. Using these remnants of other activities, I focus on the visual experiences of spatial placement, proximity and location. I embrace the challenge of making work that is transparent in its materiality. Random images created by my process-reliant practice produce ambiguous content, creating a passageway for the viewer."

“I have exhibited my work locally and nationally, most recently in a 2024 solo show at KIPNZ Gallery in Walton,” Hayes added. I was given a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA grant for The Maintenance Project, an effort to visually explore and connect a farmer’s maintenance of their machinery with an artist’s maintenance of their studio practice. Also in 2023 I was a finalist in the NYFA Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts category of artist fellowships.”

“Living in the country in the Northern Catskills has provided me with an involvement with nature, a wonderful community, and a level of meditative solitude that has and continues to make my life very complex and satisfying.”

“For me there is an essential, ever-present conversation between painting and drawing, with one feeding the other. My drawings are not preparatory sketches for paintings but exist as distinct bodies of work. Reference sources are farm machinery manuals, typographers’ catalogues and printed aspects of the boxes I work with. Then, in turn, the exploratory territory of the drawn images is brought back into the painting. The flattened, painted boxes receive these drawn aspects of work and industry and become something new,” the artist concluded.