Sanford Biggers
Promiscuous Platform
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:07:30 AM GMT
Estimate
55,000 - 65,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sanford Biggers
b. 1970
Promiscuous Platform
Executed in 2023.
Assorted textiles, mixed media, and archival paper mounted on felt
31 1/2 x 30 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (80 × 76.8 × 3.8 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery
Sanford Biggers (b. 1970, Los Angeles, CA; lives in New York, NY) works in painting, sculpture, video, photography, and performance, often reframing inherited craft traditions. Drawing on influences from Buddhism to graffiti to African sculpture, Biggers’s work shifts the symbolic meaning of several recurring motifs, including clouds, trees, and lotus flowers. He is best known for working with antique quilts, which he deconstructs and reworks into either two-dimensional paintings or three-dimensional abstract sculptures like Promiscuous Platform. His work appeared with the MCA exhibitions Faith Ringgold: American People (2023–24), Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago (2020), and Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo (2014). Solo exhibitions of Biggers’s work have been presented by the Bronx Museum of Art, NY; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; and Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY. His work is also in the MCA Collection.