Sanford Biggers: The Gift of Tongues transforms the gallery into a labyrinthine playhouse of curtains and false walls, through which works from his Codex, Chimera, and Shimmer series emerge in carefully staged vignettes. Marble Chimeras splice classical, neoclassical, and African sculptural traditions into hybrid forms; antique quilts — potentially coded Underground Railroad signposts — serve as palimpsests for painted and collaged interventions; sequined cloud motifs carry shifting, accumulated meaning across decades of practice. At the center, a marble bust painted to merge with the quilt behind it speaks only in tongues, leaving every symbol open to endless interpretation.
