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ARTIST ZÖE BUCKMAN SPEAKS ON HER WORK IN
STRIKE FAST, DANCE LIGHTLY: ARTISTS ON BOXING
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FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2023 | 6 PM
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TICKETS:
NON-MEMBERS: $20
MEMBERS: $10
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Multidisciplinary artist Zöe Buckman will speak on her work including Champion, 2016, one of the many featured works in The Church’s summer exhibition, Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing. Buckman’s art practices incorporate sculpture, textiles, ceramics, photography, and large-scale public installations. Her work explores identity, trauma, and gendered violence, challenging the prepossessed notions of vulnerability and strength.
Having developed an explicitly feminist approach, Buckman regularly works with objects that are associated with gender. Specifically, in Buckman’s work Champion, the boxing gloves hint at a truculent masculinity. Buckman’s work contains both verbal and non-verbal dialogues due to the artist’s intentional choices of source material, snippets of conversation, stained tablecloths, and hip-hop lyrics.
Sara Cochran, Chief Curator and Co-Curator of Strike Fast, Dance Lightly will interview Buckman on her work in the show, her career, and artistic process.
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ZÖE BUCKMAN
Zoë Buckman was born in 1985 in Hackney, East London. She studied at The International Center of Photography (GS ‘09) and was awarded an Art Matters Grant in 2017. She has shown in solo exhibitions at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London; Fort Gansevoort Gallery, New York; Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles; Papillion Art, Los Angeles; Project for Empty Space, Newark; Garis & Hahn Gallery, Los Angeles; and Milk Gallery, New York. Group exhibitions include Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; MOCA, Virgina; Camden Arts Centre, London; The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York; Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York; The Tarble Arts Center, Illinois; Goodman Gallery, South Africa; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Unit London; NYU Florence, Grunwald Gallery of Art Gallery, Indiana University; The Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia; The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta; and The National Museum of African-American History & Culture,Washington, D.C.; The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey; The Centre Regional D’Art Contemporain, Sète, France and Smack Mellon, New York. Public art installations include For Freedoms “50 State Initiative”, “Inaction is Apathy” billboard at 21c Museum Hotel Bentonville, Arkansas and “Champ” at The Standard, Downtown LA with Art Production Fund. Buckman currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Zoe Buckman is represented by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.
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The Church was established in 2019 by artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik. Housed in a deconsecrated 19th-century church, its doors were opened in April 2021. Our mission is to foster creativity and to honor the living history of Sag Harbor as a maker village. The East End represents an exceptional artistic legacy, spanning the practices of Indigenous art of several centuries ago, Abstract Expressionists of the mid 20th Century, and the many celebrated writers, makers, musicians, and visual artists of the recent past and current moment. Core programming includes visual art exhibitions, concerts and events, educational programming, workshops, lectures, and an artist’s residency.
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The Church
48 Madison Street
Sag Harbor, NY 11963
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Zöe Buckman, Photo by Abbey Drucker
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