IMAGE: Courtesy Sanford Biggers and Moon Medicin.
Sanford Biggers works across disciplines and cultures, creating sculpture, video, performance, music, and photographs. Incorporating icons and rites ranging from Japanese mandalas and slave quilts to hip-hop and YouTube music culture, Biggers’s work connects the signifiers and patterns that link African spiritualism, Buddhist sacred rituals, and African-American urban culture.
Born in Los Angeles, Biggers currently lives in New York and is a Visual Arts professor at Columbia University.
Also don't miss: The Contemporary Presents: Sanford Biggers with Moon Medicin Performance, Friday, April 10, 8:30P, Jones Center Roof Deck