Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing
The FLAG Art Foundation/The Church, Sag Harbor, New York, NY
June 16 – August 11, 2023
The FLAG Art Foundation and The Church co-present Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, an expansive, two-venue group exhibition that centers on the sport, psychology, ethos, and spectacle of boxing. Featuring work by Jeffrey Gibson and Wardell Milan, the exhibition will include ancient, modern, and contemporary artworks, as well as newly commissioned pieces and boxing-related ephemera.
Equal parts athlete, warrior, and performer, the boxer has become a cultural symbol of agility, endurance, and physical strength. Boxing’s has popularity waxed and waned over its long history, but the drama of watching fights, bearing witness to feats of endurance and strength, and the cultivation of boxing as a historically masculine pinnacle have made the sport an enduring presence in American culture. Artworks by thirty-three artists in Strike Fast, Dance Lightly investigate the boxer as an icon and metaphor for excellence, physical power, perseverance, achievement, and perhaps humanity itself, representing its wins and losses, regiment and fluidity, violence and artistry.
Strike Fast: Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing will be on view at the FLAG Art Foundation, NY, through August 11. To learn more, click here.