MOON MEDICIN is a musical and optical experiment conducted by interdisciplinary artist Sanford Biggers. His live work, at times troubling and inspiring, weaves found images of funk, film noir, punk, sci-fi, traditional Samoan dance and Buddhism with original video content and improvised turntableism and veejaying. The result is an evocative concert that is as much jam session as it is a performative film screening/video installation. Saturday, November 21, 2015 • 7 p.m. • Tickets $20 • ASU Gammage on stage seating $10…
Find out more »You can find Studio SB at TWO booths at UNTITLED, Miami Beach Eric Firestone Gallery, Booth C06 Monique Meloche Gallery, Booth B25Ocean Drive & 12th Street, Miami Beach (map) December 2-6
Find out more »SculptureCenter, New Benefit Editions at NADA Miami, Booth 1.06 The Fontainebleau Miami Beach, 4441 Collins Ave, Miami Beach (map) December 3-5
Find out more »It's #Showtime! Don't miss Sanford & others in Swizz Beatz' No Commission exhibition & music events #TheDeanCollection 35 NE 29th Street, (Wynwood), Miami December 3-5
Find out more »Beginning tonight, a two-person show in MIAMI: Sanford Biggers: Matter & Xaviera Simmons: Index Seven David Castillo Gallery 420 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach (map) On view December 1, 2015- January 31, 2016 Opening reception: Saturday Dec 5th, 7-10pm
Find out more »"Should Art Schools Prepare Artists for the Art World?" is a panel discussion that brings together Nicolas Bourriaud, Independent Curator and Art Critic, Paris Howard Singerman, Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Chair of Art and Art History, Hunter College Rosanne Somerson, President, Rhode Island School of Design Sanford Biggers, Artist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Columbia University Moderator: András Szántó, Author and Cultural Consultant, New York Date: Saturday December 5, 10-11am Location: Auditorium, Hall C, Miami Beach Convention Center More info here
Find out more »Following Ago, the artist’s celebrated 2013 on the wall installation at moniquemeloche, Sanford Biggers will have his first solo exhibition in Chicago opening February 11, 2016, with a reception for the artist from 5:00-7:30pm. On a large, horizontal, mounted quilt painting, collaged material buckles underneath Biggers’s abstracted motifs. With an emphasis placed on materiality, form, collage, and influences ranging from Miriam Schapiro to Frank Stella, Biggers’ solo exhibition will feature this new series of transmogrified quilts alongside bronzed, deconstructed sculptures sourced from street…
Find out more »Dreams matter. And TED2016 will be dedicated to the greatest dreams we are capable of dreaming. It will be a week to stare hard at humanity’s toughest challenges, to listen to our greatest thinkers, artists and storytellers. A week to stir the blood. Join us February 15-19, 2016, in Vancouver, for TED2016: Dream. WATCH TED LIVE STREAM!
Find out more »Back by popular demand, Martin Luther McCoy returns to close out the Apollo Music Café 2015/16 season with selections from his latest project, Love is the Hero, Volume 2. This performance will feature MOON MEDICIN, a multimedia concept band performing original compositions interspersed with re-imagined covers. The collective performs against a backdrop of curated sound effects and images of sci-fi, punk, sacred geometry, coded symbology, film noir, minstrels, world politics, and ceremonial dance. Renowned visual artist Sanford Biggers is the creative director joined by…
Find out more »