Sanford Biggers
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Sanford Biggers will speak with former Providence College Galleries Director and Chief Curator Jamilee Lacy about My HomeCourt 2023, a large-scale mural work designed for the Ninth Street Courts in Providence’s Mount Hope Neighborhood.
This conversation will explore Bigger’s creative trajectory from making art with antique quilts to developing massive public artworks for sites across the country.
Lead support for this program is provided by Providence College Galleries and the My HomeCourt non-profit. Additional support provided by RISD Museum and the Department of Art & Art History at Providence College.
Free. To attend this in-person program, registration is requested.
Biggers will unveil My HomeCourt 2023 at 4:30pm on October 4, 2023 at the Ninth Street Courts (one block East of Ninth and North Main Streets). The artist, Mayor Brett Smiley, and leaders from the My HomeCourt non-profit, Providence Parks, and Providence College Galleries will make remarks.
Sanford Biggers (b. 1970; Los Angeles, CA) speaks to current social, political and economic happenings—and examines the contexts that bore them—through the interplay of narrative, perspective, and history. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions throughout his career, including Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch, an exhibition devoted to the artist’s Codexworks and curated by Sergio Bessa and Andrea Andersson, traveled from the Bronx Museum of Art, NY, to the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, and the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA from 2020–2022. Biggers has had additional solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; Chazen Museum of Art, WI; and Brooklyn Museum, NY.