CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/12/2025

FLAG Art Foundation presents Eric Fischl, John Ahearn, Zoë Buckman and Cheryl Pope launching 'Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing'

Wednesday, March 12, from 6–8 PM, together with co-publishers Gregory R. Miller & Co., The Church, Sag Harbor, and the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, NYC's FLAG Art Foundation presents the launch of Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing. Artist and curator Eric Fischl will moderate a panel discussion featuring artists John Ahearn, Zoë Buckman and Cheryl Pope. Click here to RSVP.

From 2023–2025, FLAG, The Church and the Norton Museum of Art collaborated on Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, an expansive, three-venue group exhibition centering on the sport, psychology, ethos and spectacle of boxing.

Co-published by the three institutions and Gregory R. Miller & Co., and designed by Julia Ma and Miko McGinty, the catalogue details more than a millennium of the history of boxing and depictions of it throughout art history. Marking this unique collaboration between institutions, the catalogue includes essays by curators Sara Cochran (former Curator, The Church), Eric Fischl (artist and co-Founder, The Church), Jonathan Rider (Director, FLAG), and Arden Sherman (Glenn W. and Cornelia T. Bailey Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art), as well as guest writer, American sports journalist and author Robert Lipsyte. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Click here to order a copy.

Delilah Montoya, “Terri “Lil’ Loca” Lynn Cruz” (from the series Women Boxers: The New Warriors), 2005. Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing.

'Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing' Book Launch
The FLAG Art Foundation
Wednesday, March 12, 6–8 PM
545 West 25th Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10001
info@flagartfoundation.org
(212) 206-0220