The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, is presenting "Sanford Biggers: Drift," a solo exhibition showcasing the artist's multidisciplinary practice. The show features works such as "Unsui (Cloud Forest)" (2025), an illuminated cloud installation made from aluminum, acrylic, and LEDs, alongside his "Codex" series of antique quilts altered with spray paint and found objects. Biggers, who grew up in Los Angeles and was influenced by hip-hop and graffiti, draws on his time in Japan and Buddhist concepts like "unsui" (cloud water) to explore themes of drift, migration, and cultural mixing. The exhibition was co-curated by Corinne Erni, the museum's chief curator of art and education.
This exhibition matters because it highlights Sanford Biggers as a significant contemporary artist who bridges diverse cultural traditions—African American quilt-making, Japanese Buddhism, and urban graffiti—into a cohesive visual language. By encouraging viewers to lie beneath his cloud sculptures and contemplate the layered histories in his quilts, Biggers invites a meditative engagement with art that addresses migration, memory, and the infinite potential of cultural exchange. The show also underscores the Parrish Art Museum's commitment to presenting innovative, thought-provoking work by living artists with ties to the East End of Long Island.