Vanderbilt University and StudioVU: The Department of Art Lecture Series will welcome acclaimed multimedia artist Sanford Biggers on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Biggers will discuss his work beginning at 7 p.m. in Wilson Hall, Room 126. The lecture is free and open to the public.
A Los Angeles native working in New York City, Biggers creates artworks that integrate film, video, drawing, sculpture, installation, original music and performance. He intentionally complicates issues such as hip hop, Buddhism, politics, art history and identity in order to offer new perspectives and associations for established symbols. Through a multidisciplinary formal process and a syncretic creative approach, he makes works that are aesthetically pleasing as well as conceptual.
Biggers is an assistant professor in the visual arts program at Columbia University and a board member of Sculpture Center, Soho House and the CUE Foundation. He has taught in Virginia Commonwealth University’s sculpture and expanded media program and was a visiting scholar in Harvard University’s VES department in 2009.
This event is co-sponsored by the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center and the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt.
For more information about this lecture or StudioVU, contact the Department of Art at (615) 343-7241 or visit vanderbilt.edu/arts.
Contact: Diane Acree, (615) 343-7241
diane.acree@vanderbilt.edu