Sanford Biggers is a LA native living in NYC. His work is a combination of scultpure, performance and other various medias. Most of his works involve alot of preparation and are heavily involved in the processes of making them. Biggers has attended many residencies and had living in many major cities in America as well as Japan.
One of the first pieces that he showed us was a linoleum floor that he laid with a design. This floor was meant to be used for break dancing and biggers was interested in showing the space created and the way a space is treated. The square he designed from break dancing became a kind of a scared space to those dancers that same way that temple and churches are sacred to other people. This floor is show in galleries with all the wear and tear of it being danced on, and occasionally it was danced on with in the gallery spaces.
One of my other favorite things that he showed us was a video. It was two screens side by side showing "Middle Class America. " This was a collaboration he did with a white artist and they took home videos from when they were young and took similar scenes and put them together as a movie. It really just shows that even though they are different colors their families were no different from one another.
Pictured above is a glass piece called Lotus. The flower petals are actually diagrams of slave shifts formed into a photograph. It speaks to peaceful religions as it is the shape of a gong and how it is a circle. It is an intense image that is a strong reminder of what happened in the past.
Sanford Biggers work is so vast it is had to describe him in just a few words. His work covers ideas of race, social standings of the past and black culture.
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