#sanfordbiggers

[harvardfineartslib]

#BlackResistance

Some of the powerhouse contemporary artists’ books from the stacks!

Dawoud Bey on photographing people and communities / photographs and text by Dawoud Bey ; introduction by Brian Ulrich. 2019. HOLLIS number: 99153846094103941

Lorna Simpson / Thelma Golden, Kellie Jones, Chrissie Iles, Naomi Beckwith. 2022

HOLLIS number: 99156213824303941

Kara Walker : Dust jackets for the niggerati. 2013. HOLLIS number: 990138041340203941

I'm / Deborah Roberts. 2021. HOLLIS number: 99156414672603941

Glenn Ligon : unbecoming / Judith Tannenbaum ; with essays by Richard Meyer and Thelma Golden ; and an interview with Glenn Ligon by Byron Kim. c1997

HOLLIS number: 990076940110203941

Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems : in dialogue / Ron Platt and Kinshasha Holman Conwill. 2022. HOLLIS number: 99156378937603941

Double consciousness : Black conceptual art since 1970 : Terry Adkins, EdgarArceneaux, Sanford Biggers ... / essay by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Franklin Sirmans. 2005. HOLLIS number

990095704830203941

Radical presence : black performance in contemporary art / Valerie Cassel Oliver ; essays by Yona Backer, Naomi Beckwith, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Tavia Nyong'o, Clifford Owens, Franklin Sirmans. 2013. HOLLIS number: 990137858880203941

Sanford Biggers / organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Lisa Melandri.

2019. HOLLIS number: 99153814871703941

Theaster Gates : black archive / Kunsthaus Bregenz ; Herausgeber, Thomas D. Trummer.

2017. HOLLIS number: 990149445900203941

Sanford Biggers : sweet funk-- an introspective / Eugenie Tsai ; with an essay by Gregory Volk. 2011. HOLLIS number: 990133106710203941

[trascapades]

🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #NewExhibition

Sanford Biggers | Meet Me on the Equinox

September 7 - October 14, 2023

Marianne Boesky Gallery

📍507 West 24th Street, #NYC

Opening reception tomorrow, September 7, 6PM-8PM.

Images 1-3: Knuck, 2023, black polished Marquina marble, antique quilts, rope on custom cedar plinth

Images 4-6: Slow Murder, 2023, antique quilts, assorted textiles, mixed media

@sanfordbiggers #SanfordBiggers

@marianneboeskygallery #MarianneBoeskyGallery

Images and caption reposted from @marianneboeskygallery Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Meet Me on the Equinox, a solo exhibition of new work by New York-based conceptual artist Sanford Biggers. Biggers’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, Meet Me on the Equinox features new works from the artist’s quilt-based Codex series, sculptural Chimera series, and a site-specific anamorphic drawing. A foray into the origin of myth and the malleability of historical narrative, the exhibition blurs the boundaries between seemingly disparate elements of Biggers’s practice as the convergence of pattern, material, and allegory sets the stage for the creation of novel, discordant, and subjective mythologies.

Sanford Biggers: Meet Me on the Equinox will be on view in New York September 7 – October 14.

#exhibition #artists #favoriteartists #BlackGirlArtGeeks

[moma-prints]

Afropick, Sanford Biggers, 2005, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art in honor of Stuart W. Lewis Size: composition (irreg.): 67 7/16 x 11 7/16" (171.3 x 29 cm); sheet: 72 x 27 3/8" (182.9 x 69.5 cm) Medium: Woodcut

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/148765

[bm-contemporary-art]

QC #3, Sanford Biggers, 2013, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

©Sanford Biggers Size: sheet: 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm) frame: 60 1/4 × 60 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (153 × 153 × 6.4 cm) Medium: Textiles and fabric treated acrylic paint on archival paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/211196

[stevengruber-photoblog]

The Oracle #rockafellercenter #newyorkcity #manhattan #theoracle #sanfordbiggers #iconicnewyork #nycgo #what_i_saw_in_nyc #nycprimeshot #fx_hdr #nycphotographer #i_capturenyc #ig_nycity #just_newyork #pictures_of_newyork #online_newyork #nycityworld (at Rockerfeller Center, New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQe8IEjNZw-/?utm_medium=tumblr

[nyfacurrent]

Featuring | NYFA Hall of Fame Honoree Sanford Biggers

On April 11, 2019, Biggers (Fellow in Performance/Multidisciplinary ’05) will be inducted into NYFA’s Hall of Fame alongside Karl Kellner and Min Jin Lee

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) will celebrate the induction of three arts luminaries into its Hall of Fame during its annual benefit on Thursday, April 11, 2019 at Capitale, 130 Bowery, New York, NY 10013. The event recognizes visual, literary, and performing artists who have received NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships and have had a profound impact on the arts through their creative work, as well as patrons of the arts who have championed the value of the arts in the world around us. 

Among the honorees is Sanford Biggers, a visual artist who received a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Performance/Multidisciplinary in 2005. Biggers’ work is an interplay of narrative, perspective, and history that speaks to current social, political, and economic happenings while also examining the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often overlooked cultural and political narratives from American history. 

Working with antique quilts that echo rumors of their use as signposts on the Underground Railroad, Biggers engages these legends and contributes to this narrative by drawing and painting directly onto them. In response to ongoing occurrences of police brutality against black Americans, Biggers’ BAM series is composed of bronze sculptures recast from fragments of wooden African statues that have been anonymized through dipping in wax and then ballistically ‘resculpted.’ Following a residency as a 2017 American Academy Fellow in Rome, Biggers began working in marble. Drawing on and playing with the tradition of working in this medium, he creates hybridized forms that transpose, combine, and juxtapose classical and historical subjects to create alternative meanings and produce what he calls “future ethnographies.”

Seph Rodney, an editor and writer at Hyperallergic, wrote that Biggers’ 2017 Selah exhibition ��recognizes that being black in the United States is a syncretic state of being, that the African and the American have become lodged together in ways that are at times brilliant, grandiose, and also violent and inscrutable.” In an ARTnews review from 2000, Tom Finkelpearl, the then-director of MoMA P.S.1′s studio program and now-commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, was quoted as saying: “Biggers is always juggling cultural signs” and has “an incredible formal sense.” A 2018 New Yorker profile by Vinson Cunningham highlighted the subtlety and humor in Biggers’ eclectic body of work, noting that the artist “strives for a balance between formal play and an interest in race and history that manages to be at once sincere and ironic.” 

Biggers has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Brooklyn Museum, with work in group exhibitions at the Menil Collection, Tate Modern, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. His work is currently on view as part of the traveling exhibition Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and is held in the public art collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, among others.

Biggers is also the creative director of Moon Medicin, a multimedia concept band that straddles visual art and music with performances staged against a backdrop of curated sound effects and video, that will perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. this April. He lives and works in New York City.

All tickets to NYFA’s 2019 Hall of Fame Benefit come with a limited-edition signed print by Sanford Biggers. Learn more about NYFA’s Hall of Benefit here. Sign up for NYFA’s bi-weekly newsletter, NYFA News, to receive announcements about future NYFA events and programs.

Images: Sanford Biggers (Fellow in Performance/Multidisciplinary ‘05), Photo Credit: Alex Freund, and Sanford Biggers, Eclipse, 2006, painted wood, 2 pieces, ©Sanford Biggers, Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery

[rafeny]

#canitellyou Frieze frame. This year’s @friezeofficial at @theshedny is a must see if you’re in town. So many of the artworks that caught my attention enticed me to come closer to fully appreciate all the work that went into the pieces. What a great start to my day. I left energized and inspired. More in my stories. / 🧐🎨🖼 . . . #friezeartfair #friezenewyork2022 #artinspiresme #rafetotengco #sanfordbiggers #nancygrossman #davidzwirergallery #carolbovesculptures (at The Shed) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdx8DyLu60K/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ahylen]

CAAM. Inspiring museum near USC. California African American Museum. Checkout #aprilbey and #sanfordbiggers #sanfordbiggerscodeswitch @caaminla https://www.instagram.com/p/CYt1wvSliwk/?utm_medium=tumblr

[shoedaydreams]

Went to seek the wisdom of the “Oracle” (by @sanfordbiggers ) in Rockefeller Plaza. #oracle #sanfordbiggers #rockafellercenter #art #artist #publicart #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #midtown #sundayvibes #sunday https://www.instagram.com/p/COqT2VRj-rT/?igshid=h9m7qusyynnl

[trascapades]

🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #NewExhibition

Sanford Biggers | Meet Me on the Equinox

September 7 - October 14, 2023

Marianne Boesky Gallery

📍507 West 24th Street, #NYC

Opening reception tomorrow, September 7, 6PM-8PM.

Images 1-3: Knuck, 2023, black polished Marquina marble, antique quilts, rope on custom cedar plinth

Images 4-6: Slow Murder, 2023, antique quilts, assorted textiles, mixed media

@sanfordbiggers #SanfordBiggers

@marianneboeskygallery #MarianneBoeskyGallery

Images and caption reposted from @marianneboeskygallery Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Meet Me on the Equinox, a solo exhibition of new work by New York-based conceptual artist Sanford Biggers. Biggers’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, Meet Me on the Equinox features new works from the artist’s quilt-based Codex series, sculptural Chimera series, and a site-specific anamorphic drawing. A foray into the origin of myth and the malleability of historical narrative, the exhibition blurs the boundaries between seemingly disparate elements of Biggers’s practice as the convergence of pattern, material, and allegory sets the stage for the creation of novel, discordant, and subjective mythologies.

Sanford Biggers: Meet Me on the Equinox will be on view in New York September 7 – October 14.

#exhibition #artists #favoriteartists #BlackGirlArtGeeks

[christtoandandrew]

SCAD deFINE ART 2021

[bm-contemporary-art]

Transolitude, Sanford Biggers, 2008, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

© Sanford Biggers Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm) Medium: Screenprint with hand embellishment on paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/211216

[barbarapicci]

“Soft Truths” by #SanfordBiggers @sanfordbiggers More info at: https://barbarapicci.com/2022/10/07/soft-truths-by-sanford-biggers/ #artinstallation #installationview #cultureisfreedom #artisfreedom #curiositykilledtheblogger #artblogging #photooftheday #artaddict #artistsoninstagram #amazing #artwork #instacool #instaart #followart #artlover #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea #artmuseum #artcurator #artwatchers #artcollectors #artdealer #arthistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CjdD5r2IRF9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[burninginwaterart]

Currently on view at Marianne Boesky in NYC is an exhibition of striking new work by Sanford Biggers: "Selah." Sanford Biggers, 100 Years Too Soon, 2017, antique Japanese textiles, fabric, antique quilt, tar, charcoal and acrylic. #sanfordbiggers #multimedia #100years #chorus #Iyaric #gallery #exhibition #nyc @marianneboeskygallery (at Marianne Boesky Gallery)

[sbowen]

Sanford Biggers Biggers is at it again, merging formalism and Afrofuturism ("an aesthetic that imagines the future of Africa and the African diaspora by reassessing the past through science-fiction tropes."). #sandordbiggers

[supportblackart]

@sanfordbiggers is has an upcoming show! 🙌🏾 "Selah", a solo show of all new works opens this Thur. Sep 7, 6-8pm at @marianneboeskygallery NYC. Show is up til Oct 21. Come through! Pictured: "Binghi" antique quilt, acrylic, spray paint, aluminum, plexiglass. 2017 #supportblackart #sanfordbiggers #selah #artshow #marianneboeskygallery #binghi #mixedmedia #art #mixedmediaart #blackart #blackartist #artist #artwork #artlovers #nycartscene #blkcreatives #veryblack #artdaily #artnews #nycart #okayafrica (at Marianne Boesky Gallery)