‘Lifting The Veil’ (2023)
White Carrara marble, antique quilt
H: 45.5 in x W: 30.38 in x D: 28.95
📸 3: ‘Booker T. Washington Lifting The Veil of Ignorance’
Inscription: “He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry.”
#studiosanfordbiggers #remancipationproject #history #frederickdouglass #abrahamlincoln #bookertwashington Chazen Museum of Art
‘Lifting The Veil’ (2023)
White Carrara marble, antique quilt
H: 45.5 in x W: 30.38 in x D: 28.95
📸 3: ‘Booker T. Washington Lifting The Veil of Ignorance’
Inscription: “He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry.”
#studiosanfordbiggers #remancipationproject #history #frederickdouglass #abrahamlincoln #bookertwashington Chazen Museum of Art
‘Lifting The Veil’ (2023)
White Carrara marble, antique quilt
H: 45.5 in x W: 30.38 in x D: 28.95
📸 3: ‘Booker T. Washington Lifting The Veil of Ignorance’
Inscription: “He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry.”
#studiosanfordbiggers #remancipationproject #history #frederickdouglass #abrahamlincoln #bookertwashington Chazen Museum of Art
👁️ The Soothsayer (2019-2023) on view at @marianneboeskygallery’s 509 W 24th Street location ✨
“The latest work in Biggers’s Chimera series, The Soothsayer juxtaposes Classical western statuary with African masks, revealing the complexities, contradictions, and affinities between diverging cultural traditions.” @marianneboeskygallery
#studiosanfordbiggers #sculpture #Chimera
#Soothsayer #marianneboeskygallery Marianne Boesky Gallery
👁️ The Soothsayer (2019-2023) on view at @marianneboeskygallery’s 509 W 24th Street location ✨
“The latest work in Biggers’s Chimera series, The Soothsayer juxtaposes Classical western statuary with African masks, revealing the complexities, contradictions, and affinities between diverging cultural traditions.” @marianneboeskygallery
#studiosanfordbiggers #sculpture #Chimera
#Soothsayer #marianneboeskygallery Marianne Boesky Gallery
Find me at booth A1 with @massimodecarlogallery for Frieze NYC 🙏🏿
“Soft Geometries, is the presentation of a solo project by New York-based conceptual artist Sanford Biggers.
At Frieze New York, Biggers unveils a survey of new vibrant sculptural quilts that defy traditional artistic boundaries. The new works included in Soft Geometries are part of Biggers’ Codex series, which are infused with a lexicon of layered histories and symbols drawn on an expansive array of references.
The Codex series include mixed media paintings and sculptures done directly on or made from pre-1900 antique quilts. This process, like linguistic code-switching, recognizes language plurality, as the quilts signal their original creator’s intent and the new layers of meaning given to them through Biggers’ artistic intervention.
Biggers uses history as a malleable material, which he repurposes
and reinterprets, connecting temporalities of the past and future in homage to the stories of objects while allowing for new conceptual possibilities – what the artists call “future ethnographies.” Materializing history, Biggers positions himself as a collaborator of the past while also examining the current sociopolitical landscape. Biggers repurposes antique quilts to explore their iconographic importance as a kind of secret language, delving into the long-debated historical narrative that such quilts signaled safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.” – @massimodecarlogallery
📸: @daniel_greer
1: Fire Flower, 2023
Antique quilt, assorted textiles Approx.
63 × 63 × 5 in
160 × 160 × 12.7 cm
3: Soft Geometry, 2023
Antique quilts, assorted textiles Approx.
38 x 38 in
96.5 × 96.5 cm
5: Boogie Down (BX Boogie Woogie), 2023
Antique quilts, birch plywood, gold leaf
59 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 14 7/8 in
#StudioSanfordBiggers #FriezeNY #NewYork #MASSIMODECARLO FriezeNewYork
Find me at booth A1 with @massimodecarlogallery for Frieze NYC 🙏🏿
“Soft Geometries, is the presentation of a solo project by New York-based conceptual artist Sanford Biggers.
At Frieze New York, Biggers unveils a survey of new vibrant sculptural quilts that defy traditional artistic boundaries. The new works included in Soft Geometries are part of Biggers’ Codex series, which are infused with a lexicon of layered histories and symbols drawn on an expansive array of references.
The Codex series include mixed media paintings and sculptures done directly on or made from pre-1900 antique quilts. This process, like linguistic code-switching, recognizes language plurality, as the quilts signal their original creator’s intent and the new layers of meaning given to them through Biggers’ artistic intervention.
Biggers uses history as a malleable material, which he repurposes
and reinterprets, connecting temporalities of the past and future in homage to the stories of objects while allowing for new conceptual possibilities – what the artists call “future ethnographies.” Materializing history, Biggers positions himself as a collaborator of the past while also examining the current sociopolitical landscape. Biggers repurposes antique quilts to explore their iconographic importance as a kind of secret language, delving into the long-debated historical narrative that such quilts signaled safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.” – @massimodecarlogallery
📸: @daniel_greer
1: Fire Flower, 2023
Antique quilt, assorted textiles Approx.
63 × 63 × 5 in
160 × 160 × 12.7 cm
3: Soft Geometry, 2023
Antique quilts, assorted textiles Approx.
38 x 38 in
96.5 × 96.5 cm
5: Boogie Down (BX Boogie Woogie), 2023
Antique quilts, birch plywood, gold leaf
59 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 14 7/8 in
#StudioSanfordBiggers #FriezeNY #NewYork #MASSIMODECARLO FriezeNewYork
Find me at booth A1 with @massimodecarlogallery for Frieze NYC 🙏🏿
“Soft Geometries, is the presentation of a solo project by New York-based conceptual artist Sanford Biggers.
At Frieze New York, Biggers unveils a survey of new vibrant sculptural quilts that defy traditional artistic boundaries. The new works included in Soft Geometries are part of Biggers’ Codex series, which are infused with a lexicon of layered histories and symbols drawn on an expansive array of references.
The Codex series include mixed media paintings and sculptures done directly on or made from pre-1900 antique quilts. This process, like linguistic code-switching, recognizes language plurality, as the quilts signal their original creator’s intent and the new layers of meaning given to them through Biggers’ artistic intervention.
Biggers uses history as a malleable material, which he repurposes
and reinterprets, connecting temporalities of the past and future in homage to the stories of objects while allowing for new conceptual possibilities – what the artists call “future ethnographies.” Materializing history, Biggers positions himself as a collaborator of the past while also examining the current sociopolitical landscape. Biggers repurposes antique quilts to explore their iconographic importance as a kind of secret language, delving into the long-debated historical narrative that such quilts signaled safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.” – @massimodecarlogallery
📸: @daniel_greer
1: Fire Flower, 2023
Antique quilt, assorted textiles Approx.
63 × 63 × 5 in
160 × 160 × 12.7 cm
3: Soft Geometry, 2023
Antique quilts, assorted textiles Approx.
38 x 38 in
96.5 × 96.5 cm
5: Boogie Down (BX Boogie Woogie), 2023
Antique quilts, birch plywood, gold leaf
59 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 14 7/8 in
#StudioSanfordBiggers #FriezeNY #NewYork #MASSIMODECARLO FriezeNewYork
Find me at booth A1 with @massimodecarlogallery for Frieze NYC 🙏🏿
“Soft Geometries, is the presentation of a solo project by New York-based conceptual artist Sanford Biggers.
At Frieze New York, Biggers unveils a survey of new vibrant sculptural quilts that defy traditional artistic boundaries. The new works included in Soft Geometries are part of Biggers’ Codex series, which are infused with a lexicon of layered histories and symbols drawn on an expansive array of references.
The Codex series include mixed media paintings and sculptures done directly on or made from pre-1900 antique quilts. This process, like linguistic code-switching, recognizes language plurality, as the quilts signal their original creator’s intent and the new layers of meaning given to them through Biggers’ artistic intervention.
Biggers uses history as a malleable material, which he repurposes
and reinterprets, connecting temporalities of the past and future in homage to the stories of objects while allowing for new conceptual possibilities – what the artists call “future ethnographies.” Materializing history, Biggers positions himself as a collaborator of the past while also examining the current sociopolitical landscape. Biggers repurposes antique quilts to explore their iconographic importance as a kind of secret language, delving into the long-debated historical narrative that such quilts signaled safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.” – @massimodecarlogallery
📸: @daniel_greer
1: Fire Flower, 2023
Antique quilt, assorted textiles Approx.
63 × 63 × 5 in
160 × 160 × 12.7 cm
3: Soft Geometry, 2023
Antique quilts, assorted textiles Approx.
38 x 38 in
96.5 × 96.5 cm
5: Boogie Down (BX Boogie Woogie), 2023
Antique quilts, birch plywood, gold leaf
59 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 14 7/8 in
#StudioSanfordBiggers #FriezeNY #NewYork #MASSIMODECARLO FriezeNewYork
Find me at booth A1 with @massimodecarlogallery for Frieze NYC 🙏🏿
“Soft Geometries, is the presentation of a solo project by New York-based conceptual artist Sanford Biggers.
At Frieze New York, Biggers unveils a survey of new vibrant sculptural quilts that defy traditional artistic boundaries. The new works included in Soft Geometries are part of Biggers’ Codex series, which are infused with a lexicon of layered histories and symbols drawn on an expansive array of references.
The Codex series include mixed media paintings and sculptures done directly on or made from pre-1900 antique quilts. This process, like linguistic code-switching, recognizes language plurality, as the quilts signal their original creator’s intent and the new layers of meaning given to them through Biggers’ artistic intervention.
Biggers uses history as a malleable material, which he repurposes
and reinterprets, connecting temporalities of the past and future in homage to the stories of objects while allowing for new conceptual possibilities – what the artists call “future ethnographies.” Materializing history, Biggers positions himself as a collaborator of the past while also examining the current sociopolitical landscape. Biggers repurposes antique quilts to explore their iconographic importance as a kind of secret language, delving into the long-debated historical narrative that such quilts signaled safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.” – @massimodecarlogallery
📸: @daniel_greer
1: Fire Flower, 2023
Antique quilt, assorted textiles Approx.
63 × 63 × 5 in
160 × 160 × 12.7 cm
3: Soft Geometry, 2023
Antique quilts, assorted textiles Approx.
38 x 38 in
96.5 × 96.5 cm
5: Boogie Down (BX Boogie Woogie), 2023
Antique quilts, birch plywood, gold leaf
59 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 14 7/8 in
#StudioSanfordBiggers #FriezeNY #NewYork #MASSIMODECARLO FriezeNewYork
Feeling immense gratitude after a week full of travel, spirit-enriching conversation and communion with those who make everything I do joyful and possible. Thank you to @amfedarts, @toschoon, @artinembassies, ambassador Randi Levine @usambportugal, @norahalpern, curator Welmoed laanstra and everyone who came out in support 🙏🏿
📸
1&2: @toschoon
3: @joshua_decter
4: @asherald
Feeling immense gratitude after a week full of travel, spirit-enriching conversation and communion with those who make everything I do joyful and possible. Thank you to @amfedarts, @toschoon, @artinembassies, ambassador Randi Levine @usambportugal, @norahalpern, curator Welmoed laanstra and everyone who came out in support 🙏🏿
📸
1&2: @toschoon
3: @joshua_decter
4: @asherald
Feeling immense gratitude after a week full of travel, spirit-enriching conversation and communion with those who make everything I do joyful and possible. Thank you to @amfedarts, @toschoon, @artinembassies, ambassador Randi Levine @usambportugal, @norahalpern, curator Welmoed laanstra and everyone who came out in support 🙏🏿
📸
1&2: @toschoon
3: @joshua_decter
4: @asherald
Feeling immense gratitude after a week full of travel, spirit-enriching conversation and communion with those who make everything I do joyful and possible. Thank you to @amfedarts, @toschoon, @artinembassies, ambassador Randi Levine @usambportugal, @norahalpern, curator Welmoed laanstra and everyone who came out in support 🙏🏿
📸
1&2: @toschoon
3: @joshua_decter
4: @asherald
Thank you all who’ve been following, commenting and supporting the Remancipation project @remancipationproject at the @chazenartuw. For those who’ve not had a chance to visit, please use the link in my bio to experience this incredible project! And please visit all of the brilliant artists and contributors responsible for this exhibition: @lynoregalore @keyonharrold @wildcatebonybrown @marka_27 @perfectalicia @pharoahemonch @richmedina @nurihazzard @guyroutte @visualeyz @eddie_gaj @carriekjean @arjuna.r.p.
And special thanks to the @chazenartuw team, The MASK Consortium, The SB Studio team (@eriking, @rare.earth.magnet) and photographer @mosesmitchell for capturing the magic.
– video/audio responses by UW-Madison First Wave Students, @keyonharrold, @wildcatebonybrown, @marka_27, @lynoregalore , and more >>> https://remancipation.org/artist-responses/
– the final re:mancipation-themed episode of MEET ME AT THE CHAZEN with @aegilman (drops Thursday)
Can’t visit? Do the virtual tour at https://chazen.wisc.edu/exhibitions/remancipation/
#remancipation #chazenartuw #blackhistory #arthistory Chazen Museum of Art
🙏🏿 @hyperallergic for featuring the @remancipationproject✨
👂🏿This week’s episode of Meet Me at the Chazen. Artisans from Quarra Stone met Funk at a Wisconsin Historical Society archive to research the kinds of garments that would have been worn by Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. They were preparing to put the finishing touches on “Lifting the Veil” — the marble sculpture featured in the first image.
@remancipationproject @quarrastone @guyroutte @lynoreroutte @perfectalicia #ChazenArtUW Chazen Museum of Art
🙏🏿 @hyperallergic for featuring the @remancipationproject✨
👂🏿This week’s episode of Meet Me at the Chazen. Artisans from Quarra Stone met Funk at a Wisconsin Historical Society archive to research the kinds of garments that would have been worn by Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. They were preparing to put the finishing touches on “Lifting the Veil” — the marble sculpture featured in the first image.
@remancipationproject @quarrastone @guyroutte @lynoreroutte @perfectalicia #ChazenArtUW Chazen Museum of Art
👁️ Manger, 2023 at @artbasel – @massimodecarlogallery Booth C9
“In his work titled Manger, Sanford Biggers presents a vibrant composition with interspersed darker hues.
Biggers uses history as a malleable material, which he repurposes and reinterprets, connecting temporalities of the past and future in homage to the stories of objects while allowing for new conceptual possibilities
– what the artists call “future ethnographies.” Biggers positions himself as a collaborator of the past while also examining the current sociopolitical landscape.
The Harlem-based artist repurposes antique quilts to explore their iconographic importance as a kind of secret language, delving into the long-debated historical narrative that such quilts signalled safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.”
📝 @massimodecarlogallery
#studiosanfordbiggers #quilting #history
👁️ Manger, 2023 at @artbasel – @massimodecarlogallery Booth C9
“In his work titled Manger, Sanford Biggers presents a vibrant composition with interspersed darker hues.
Biggers uses history as a malleable material, which he repurposes and reinterprets, connecting temporalities of the past and future in homage to the stories of objects while allowing for new conceptual possibilities
– what the artists call “future ethnographies.” Biggers positions himself as a collaborator of the past while also examining the current sociopolitical landscape.
The Harlem-based artist repurposes antique quilts to explore their iconographic importance as a kind of secret language, delving into the long-debated historical narrative that such quilts signalled safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.”
📝 @massimodecarlogallery
#studiosanfordbiggers #quilting #history
👁️ Manger, 2023 at @artbasel – @massimodecarlogallery Booth C9
“In his work titled Manger, Sanford Biggers presents a vibrant composition with interspersed darker hues.
Biggers uses history as a malleable material, which he repurposes and reinterprets, connecting temporalities of the past and future in homage to the stories of objects while allowing for new conceptual possibilities
– what the artists call “future ethnographies.” Biggers positions himself as a collaborator of the past while also examining the current sociopolitical landscape.
The Harlem-based artist repurposes antique quilts to explore their iconographic importance as a kind of secret language, delving into the long-debated historical narrative that such quilts signalled safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.”
📝 @massimodecarlogallery
#studiosanfordbiggers #quilting #history
I’m so humbled and grateful to be featured on “Clear Water” by one of my favorite artists @officialmeshell ✨ and @jeffparkersounds @deantoniparks 🙏🏿
I’m so humbled and grateful to be featured on “Clear Water” by one of my favorite artists @officialmeshell ✨ and @jeffparkersounds @deantoniparks 🙏🏿
👁️ RE:BIRTH, a digital scrim designed for the entrance of the Chazen Museum of Art @chazenartuw by muralist @marka_27 as part of the @remancipationproject 🙏🏿
#remancipation #chazenartuw
👁️ RE:BIRTH, a digital scrim designed for the entrance of the Chazen Museum of Art @chazenartuw by muralist @marka_27 as part of the @remancipationproject 🙏🏿
#remancipation #chazenartuw
