Press release
The Baldwin Gallery is proud to announce its third show with Sanford Biggers, Martian Chronicles, featuring contemporary sculpture and quilts by the artist.
The contemporary marbles and quilt-works explore the themes of dubious histories in the development of sculpture and textile. They also shed light on their use as complex historical narratives. The works question the origin of formal qualities and their authenticity.
Sanford Biggers’ work is an interplay of narrative, perspective, and history that speaks to current happenings while examining the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often-overlooked aesthetic, cultural, historical, and political narratives. Biggers describes his process as “conceptual patchworking,” a method of transposing, combining, and juxtaposing ideas, forms, and genres that challenge traditional historiography, provenance, and official narratives to create artworks foreshadowing human trajectory.
Biggers’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in museums and institutions, including Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Centre of Pompidou Metz, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Whitney Museum of American Art, California African American Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, and the Bronx Museum of Art. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others.
Images are available upon request. Please call 970.920.9797 for further information.
