As part of the exhibition Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, actor Vincent Piazza performs The Boxer, Part I, written by poet Gabriele Tinti, followed by a panel discussion with artists Alvin Armstrong, Angela Dufresne, and Caleb Hahne Quintana, moderated by FLAG’s Director Jonathan Rider.
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Gabriele Tinti is an Italian poet, writer and a recipient of the 2018 Montale Poetry Award. He has worked with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums, the Archeological Museum in Naples, the Ara Pacis Museums and the Glyptothek of Munich composing poems for ancient works of art including the Boxer at Rest, Discobolus, Arundel Head, Ludovisi Gaul, Victorious Youth, Farnese Hercules, the Elgin marbles from the Parthenon, Barberini Faun and many other masterpieces. His recent publications are Last Words (Milan: Skira Rizzoli, 2016), The Earth Will Come To Laugh and To Feast (New York: Powerhouse Books, 2020), Ruins (London: Eris Press; Milan: Libri Scheiwiller, 2021) and Bleedings (Milan: La Nave di Teseo, 2022; New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2023).
Vincent Piazza is best known for his portrayals of gangster Lucky Luciano on the critically acclaimed HBO series Boardwalk Empire as well as Tommy DeVito in Clint Eastwood’s, Jersey Boys. Piazza was just seen starring in the IFC thriller, Centigrade, which is based on true events and has returned to television in the Paramount+ series, Tulsa King starring opposite Sylvester Stallone.
Alvin Armstrong is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Armstrong received an MS in Eastern Medicine from the Pacific College of Health and Science, New York, NY, in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Pretty Soon We’ll Be Underwater, Anna Zorina Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); It Goes to Show, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY (2022); To Give and Take, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY (2021); and This Place Looks Different, Medium Tings, Brooklyn, NY (2020). His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including TEMPO. TEMPO! TEMPO?, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Derneburg, Germany (2023); To Be Held, Carl Freedman Gallery, Kent, United Kingdom (2023); Hoop Dreams, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (2023); and The Artsy Vanguard, Mana Contemporary, Miami, FL (2021); among others. Armstrong was a Visual Arts Resident at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, in 2022, and a Visiting Artist Lecturer at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, in 2020. Armstrong’s work has been the subject of articles and reviews in Artsy, The Brooklyn Rail, Epiphany Magazine, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz Magazine, Luncheon Magazine, The New York Times, Something Curated, among others.
Angela Dufresne (b. 1969) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Dufresne received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, in 1991, and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, in 1998. Recent solo exhibitions include Life is very precious, even right now, M+B, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Angela Dufresne as William E. Jones’ Painting Bottom, M+B, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Long and Short Shots, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Evocations, German Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS (2021); among others. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Press Release II, Storage Gallery, New York, NY (2023); PRESENT ’23: Building the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (2023); Psychedelic Landscape, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY (2022); among others. Dufresne has held academic posts at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (2011); Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME (2017); and the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (2023). Her work is included in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; and The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI.
Caleb Hahne Quintana (b. 1993) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Hahne Quintana received a BFA from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Lakewood, CO, in 2014. Recent solo exhibitions include AURORA, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA (2022); The Earth, It Held Me, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2021); The Path from Sea to Sky, The Cabin, Los Angeles, CA (2020); One Sun, RULE Gallery, Denver, CO (2020); among others. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Levity, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY (forthcoming); Caleb Hahne Quintana, Elmer Guevara, Taha Heydari and Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson, Lyles & King, New York (2023); Fire Figure Fantasy, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (2022); High Voltage Three, Nassima Landua, Tel Aviv, Israel (2022); among others. Hahne Quintana has participated in numerous residencies, included at 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2021); La Brea Studio, Los Angeles, CA (2020); and Redline, Denver, CO (2018). His work is in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; and X Museum, Beijing, China.
Jonathan Rider (b. 1983) is an artist, curator, and writer based in New York, NY. Rider is the Director at The FLAG Art Foundation, where he has worked since 2014, and has organized solo presentations by artists Kamrooz Aram, Cynthia Daignault, Nicole Eisenman and Keith Boadwee, Elmgreen & Dragset, Genevieve Gaignard, Sam Gilliam, among others, and thematic group exhibitions, including and I will wear you in my heart of heart, Dime-Store Alchemy, In Search of the Miraculous, and The Times. Previously, he was the Assistant Curator at Art in General from 2011–14. Rider received a BA from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, in 2005, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, in 2011. His artwork has been shown in exhibitions including Notturno Più, The Pool NYC, Venice, Italy (2019); Microwave X, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY (2018); Costante Colore, The Pool NYC, Milan, Italy (2017); Chaos/Control, MW Project Space, New York, NY (2017); among others. His writing has appeared in Art in America.