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ARTIST'S TALK / Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 pm
Emory University, Oxford Presentation Auditorium
Oxford Road Building, 1390 Oxford Road, Atlanta
map + directions
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These events are free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the Emory Visual Arts Gallery.
The official hotel sponsor of ART PAPERS LIVE! is W Atlanta-Downtown.
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Sanford Biggers uses the study of ethnological objects, popular icons, and the Dadaist tradition to
explore cultural and creative syncretism, art history, and politics. An accomplished musician, he often
incorporates performative elements into his sculptures and installations, resulting in multilayered
works that act as anecdotal vignettes, at once full of wit and clear formal intent.
Sanford Biggers' installations, videos, and performances have appeared in venues worldwide including
Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; as well as institutions in China, Germany,
Hungary, Japan, Poland, and Russia. Biggers has won several awards including: The Creative Time Travel
Grant, Creative Capital Project Grant, New York Percent for the Arts Commission, Art Matters Grant,
New York Foundation for the Arts Award in performance art/multidisciplinary work, the Lambent
Fellowship in the arts, the Pennies From Heaven/ New York Community Trust Award, Tanne Foundation
Award, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award Grant, James Nelson Raymond Fellowship from the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Camille Hanks-Cosby Fellowship.
Sanford Biggers is presently an assistant professor at Columbia University's Visual Arts program.
MORE INFO ABOUT SANFORD BIGGERS AND HIS WORK:
+ Sanford Biggers' website
+ Sanford Biggers on wikipedia
WATCH
+ Interview with Miki Garcia, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 2010 (44 minutes)
+ Studio visit with Sanford Biggers, Harlem, 2009, on NewArtTV (6 minutes)
+ Sanford Biggers discusses his large-scale multimedia installation Blossom, 2007, featured in Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk–An Introspective at the Brooklyn Museum, 2011-2012 (1:33 minutes)
READ
+ Ken Johnson, "Smile and Metaphor, Crossing Borough Lines," New York Times, October 20, 2011
+ Tom Butter's interview with Sanford Biggers, Whitehot Magazine, April 2010
+ East Meets West: An Interview with Sanford Biggers, PORT, May 15, 2009
images, above, left to right:
Sanford Biggers, Cheshire (hanging), 2010, digital c-print, image: 20 x 30 inches; sheet: 25 x 35.25 inches (courtesy of the artist and Michael Klein Arts, New York);
Sanford Biggers, Blossom, 2007, silk steel, wood, MIDI player piano system, and Zoopoxy, approximately 12 x 18 x 15 feet (courtesy of the artist and Grand Arts, Kansas City)
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ART PAPERS LIVE! 2012 HOST COMMITTEE
anonymous / Susan Bridges / Louis Corrigan / John J. Ryan & Wesley Chenault
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