Sanford Biggers: Codex

Sanford Biggers, Quilt #9 (Cheshire), 2012, repurposed quilt, fabric treated acrylic, spray paint, cotton fabric, 72” x 72”. Photography by Giovanni Lunardi. © Sanford Biggers, 2012.

Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota

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By Veron Ennis

On display at the Ringling Museum of Art is the commissioned exhibition “Codex” by Sanford Biggers, 2010 winner of the Greenfield Prize. He is the first visual artist to receive the newly established prize (2009) from the Philadelphia-based Albert M. Greenfield Foundation. In addition to the commissioned work, the prize consists of a residency at The Hermitage Artist Retreat and a partnership with a professional arts organization.

Biggers’ installation is an elaborate interlacing of a diverse yet connected body of references. The work weaves together the historical stories of freedom-seeking slaves traveling by night on Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad, Buddhist signs of purity and clarity, as well as heavenly clouds and celestial bodies.

Familiar Biggers symbolism is readdressed using paint, a medium he is revisiting after 15 years. Astronomical and mathematical elements are applied to antique quilts that hang from walls as well as free in the space. Appropriately, the quilts were donated for the project by descendants of pre-Civil War slave owners. Cotton grown in North Carolina was used to create cloud forms that are strategically placed and hung to imply that the viewer is floating among them. The installation is a fresh and enlightening approach to the stories of struggle and hardship. Through October 14.