Artist-Led Tour | Sanford Biggers: Drift

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REGISTER Free for Members | $10 Guests of Member | $15 for Resident Benefits PassHolders | $30 Adults | Free for Students & Children Join us for a special tour of Sanford Biggers: Drift led by exhibiting artist Sanford Biggers. Advance registration is recommended. Limited spaces will be available at the door. About the Exhibition Sanford Biggers: Drift presents a major solo museum exhibition by the acclaimed artist on the East End of Long Island, featuring new textile works, prints, indoor and outdoor sculptures, and site-specific installations. Biggers (b. 1970, Los Angeles, CA) draws on a diverse range of influences, from Buddhism and Los Angeles graffiti culture to Gee’s Bend quilts and his own collection of African sculpture. Running throughout the exhibition is the cloud motif, a symbol that has engaged the artist for decades. Beginning with Biggers’ monumental ceiling installation Unsui (Cloud Forest) (2025); the exhibition traces the cloud theme through his Codex series—sculptures and paintings made from repurposed antique quilts; a floor-based sand installation inspired by prayer rugs, breakdance floors, and Japanese Buddhist mandalas; and Mirror, a marble sculpture from his ongoing Chimera series, which blends elements of African masks and Greco-Roman statuary. Sanford Biggers: Drift is part of the Museum’s USA250: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, a year-long program organized in response to the United States’ semiquincentennial in 2026. Through this exhibition, Biggers explores the theme of “Pursuit of Happiness.” Sanford Biggers: Drift is co-organized by Corinne Erni, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator of Art and Education, and Scout Hutchinson, The FLAG Art Foundation Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Parrish. Exhibition Support Sanford Biggers: Drift is made possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of Rashid Johnson; The Coby Foundation, LTD; Robert Lehman Foundation; Sarah Arison; Amy and Steven…