Sanford Biggers : codeswitch / [curators:] Andrea Andersson and Antonio Sergio Bessa.

"Sanford Biggers (b. 1970) is a Harlem-based artist working in various media including painting, sculpture, video, and performance. He describes his practice as 'code-switching'--mixing disparate elements to create layers of meaning--to account for his wide-ranging interests. This catalogue focuses...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Bronx Museum of the Arts (Host institution, Publisher)
Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, La.) (Host institution)
California African-American Museum (Host institution)
Other Authors: Andersson, Andrea (Curator)
Bessa, Antonio Sergio (Curator)
Biggers, Sanford
Language:English
Published: Bronx, New York : New Haven, CT : Bronx Museum of the Arts ; Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Biggers, Sanford > Exhibitions.
Installations (Art) > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Mixed media (Art) > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Quilts in art > 21st century.
Biggers, Sanford.
Installations (Art)
Mixed media (Art)
United States.
2000-2099
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:xiii, 173 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Variant Title:
Codeswitch
Code switch
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword: Quilted magic, quilted music, quilted freedom in the Black American continuum / Greg Tate
  • Introduction and acknowledgements / Klaudio Rodriguez
  • The craft and the codes : traveling through history with Sanford Biggers / Antonio Sergio Bessa
  • The allegorical paintings of Sanford Biggers / Andrea Andersson
  • There are five square knots... / Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard
  • Chronology / compiled by Mia Kang, with research by Esperanza Bey
  • Mother Patchwerk / John Jennings, David Brame, and Esperanza Bey
  • Plates.