Event Details
Open to All, With Artist Sanford Biggers and Chief Curator Corinne Erni
May 16, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Free for Members | Free for Resident Benefits PassHolders | $25 Guests of Member | $30 Adults | Free for Students & Children
As we celebrate the opening of Sanford Biggers: Drift, join us for a conversation between exhibiting artist Sanford Biggers and Corinne Erni, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator of Art and Education, who organized the exhibition.
Advance registration is recommended. Limited spaces will be available at the door.
About the Exhibition
Sanford Biggers: Drift presents the acclaimed artist’s first major solo presentation on the East End of Long Island, featuring new textile works, prints, indoor and outdoor sculptures, and site-responsive installations. Biggers (b. 1970, Los Angeles, CA) draws on a diverse range of influences, from Buddhism and Los Angeles graffiti culture to Gee’s Bend quilts and his own collection of African sculpture. Running throughout the exhibition is the cloud motif, a symbol that has engaged the artist for decades. Beginning with Biggers’ monumental ceiling installation Unsui (Cloud Forest) (2025), the exhibition traces the theme through his Codex series—sculptures and paintings made from repurposed antique quilts; a floor-based sand installation inspired by prayer rugs, breakdance floors, and Japanese Buddhist mandalas; and Of many waters…, a large-scale outdoor sculpture.
Sanford Biggers: Drift is part of the Museum’s USA250: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, a year-long program organized in response to the United States’ semiquincentennial in 2026. The USA250 exhibition series will reflect on the nation’s history and founding values, examine our present moment, and imagine new ways of moving forward, while recognizing the contributions of regional artists to the broader landscape of American art and culture. Through this exhibition, Biggers explores the theme of “Pursuit of Happiness.”
Sanford Biggers: Drift is co-organized by Corinne Erni, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator of Art and Education, and Scout Hutchinson, The FLAG Art Foundation Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Parrish.