Past Events
Events List Navigation
the pasts they brought with them | monique meloche gallery
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 »Sanford Biggers @ TED2016: Dream
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 »
APOLLO MUSIC CAFE: MARTIN LUTHER MCCOY with MOON MEDICIN
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 »Solo Exhibition – Sanford Biggers ‘Oracle’ and ‘Art in Focus’ at Rockefeller Center
SANFORD BIGGERS May 5th – June 29th Multiple disciplinary artist Sanford Biggers will transform Rockefeller Center with several public art exhibitions, including the highly anticipated monumental Oracle sculpture. Several years in the making, Biggers is the first artist invited by Rockefeller Center for a multimedia survey exhibition campus-wide. The 25-foot tall bronze sculpture titled Oracle, commissioned by Art Production Fund for installation at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the Channel Gardens is the cornerstone of Biggers’ takeover and welcomes visitors to the…
Find out more »Group Exhibition ‘Feedback’ at The School curated by Helen Molesworth
Feedback June 5 – October 30, 2021 Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Feedback at The School, organized by Helen Molesworth. SANFORD BIGGERS DIEDRICK BRACKENS JOHN BUCK JANET CARDIFF & GEORGE BURES MILLER KARON DAVIS TAYLOR DAVIS ROY DOWELL MUNA EL FITURI KOHSHIN FINLEY CHRISTINA FORRER LAUREN HALSEY EJ HILL STEVE LOCKE KERRY JAMES MARSHALL TYLER MITCHELL HILARY PECIS DANA SHERWOOD ROSE B. SIMPSON CAULEEN SMITH BECKY SUSS LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE Several years ago, I had an encounter with Janet Cardiff’s sound installation, Feedback. I…
Find out more »Group exhibition – Abstranded: Fiber and Abstraction, Contemporary Art at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY.
AbStranded features ten contemporary American artists—Polly Apfelbaum, Paolo Arao, Sanford Biggers, Samantha Bittman, Julia Bland, Rachel B. Hayes, Elana Herzog, Anne Lindberg, Sheila Pepe, and Sarah Zapata—who use fiber-based materials to investigate the complex lineage of abstraction. Utilizing a diverse variety of methods, styles, and forms, these artists uncover and co-opt textile traditions and material sources in order to re-assert their validity and relevance in an increasingly global-industrial culture. A prominent use of the hand looms large—through knitting, weaving, quilting,…
Find out more »Solo Exhibition – Intersections – Sanford Biggers: Mosaic, 100th Anniversary at The Phillips Collection
Curated Vesela Sretrenovic Intersections—Sanford Biggers: Mosaic October 16, 2021–January 9, 2022 Biggers’s new body of work connects works from the Phillips’s collection—quilts from Gee’s Bend and a group of European modernist sculptures—to his multidisciplinary practice that bridges African American identities, Buddhism, and the Western art canon.
Find out more »Group exhibition – Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Discover the extraordinary stories behind 300 years of American quilts Quilts and coverlets have a unique capacity to tell stories: their tactile, intricate mode of creation and their traditional use in the home impart deeply personal narratives of their creators, and the many histories they express reveal a complex record of America. Quilts have also been used in North America since the 17th century, and their story, told by many voices, has evolved alongside the United States. Upending expectations about…
Find out more »Performance – Mosaic Performance at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
The Phillips Collection presents Mosaic Performance, a Centennial commission combining music and dance, and engaging Sanford Biggers’s sand-floor installation created in dialogue with Gee’s Bend Quilts from the Phillips’s permanent collection as part of his Intersections project Mosaic. Biggers’s multimedia work draws from the rich history and creative practices of African American music and performance, notably within his own Afro-futurist project, Moon Medecin, a collaborative group of musicians and artists who combine sound and music with an array of visual…
Find out more »