Sanford Biggers on Patching Together the Past, Present, and Future Through Art

The Harlem-based artist Sanford Biggers talks about the influence that musicians such as Mahalia Jackson, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder have had on his art; why he thinks of himself as a “material polyglot”; and why religious and spiritual works including reliquaries, shrines, and “power objects” are the bedrock of his practice.