Biografie von Ahmad Antung SUFI (1930)
Birth place: Palembang, Indonesia
Addresses: Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Sculptor
Studied: Craft Students League, NY; New School Social Res., scholarship, 1966; Educ. Alliance; Haystack Mountain School Arts & Crafts.
Exhibited: Art exhib. for benefit of UNICEF, U.N. Art Gal., 1967; Int. Art Exhib., Minneapolis/Saint Paul, MN, 1972; Artist-Craftsmen New York Summer Show, 1972; Gal. 1991, Brooklyn, 1972; Sculptors Guild, Inc., 1972. Awards: second prize, Brooklyn Heights Promenade Art Show, 1971; best in sculpture, Artist-Craftsmen New York Ann. Show, 1972.
Member: Heights-Hills Artists Coop; Artist-Craftsmen New York; U.N. Art Club; Sculptors Guild.
Work: Commissions: loft bed & interior design, Buck Clark, NYC, 1968; mural-window (plexiglas), Mrs. Teannie Clark, New York, 1971; resin sculpture, Mrs. Ruth Ann Pippenger, Brooklyn, NY, 1972.
Comments: Preferred media: bronze, concrete, polyester, resin. Teaching: instructor in glass craft, private studio, 1970-. Art interests: works are non-representational in the traditional sense, yet externalized somewhat in the order of constructivism principle.
Sources: WW73; Article (1967) & Dinky Di, article (1972), U.N. Secretarial News; Corine Coleman, article, Phoenix Newspaper, 1972.