Artist Zöe Buckman Speaks on Her Work at The Church

On Friday, July 14, at 6 p.m., 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 nonverbal 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.

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. Buckman currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

Tickets for the talk are $20 ($10 members) at thechurchsagharbor.org. The Church is at 48 Madison Street in Sag Harbor.