Sanford Bigger: Drift

Sanford Biggers: Drift presents Sanford Biggers’s first major solo museum exhibition on the East End of Long Island. Featuring new textile works, prints, sculptures, and site-responsive installations, the exhibition follows the cloud as a recurring symbol in Biggers’s practice and uses it to think through fluctuation, adaptability, spirituality, and the power of change. Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY 11976. May 17, 2026 — Runs through September 13, 2026. The exhibition includes the monumental installation Unsui (Cloud Forest) (2025), examples from Biggers’s ongoing Codex series made from repurposed antique quilts, a new three-dimensional wall piece, a woven tapestry, and a site-specific floor-based sand installation. Across these works, Biggers draws on sources ranging from Buddhism and Los Angeles graffiti culture to Gee’s Bend quilts, African sculpture, prayer rugs, breakdance floors, and Japanese Buddhist mandalas. The Codex works reference the legend of quilt codes associated with the Underground Railroad, which the museum notes remains a potent metaphor for perseverance and liberation even as historians debate its literal history. The exhibition also includes Mirror, a marble sculpture from Biggers’s ongoing Chimera series, which combines elements of African masks and Greco-Roman statuary to bring distinct sculptural histories into conversation.