Sculptor's work inspired from 9/11 events
18.05.12
DAYTON — New York sculptor Linda Stein was tired of running, so she recruited some back-up.
She called on Wonder Woman, Princess Mononoke and Lisbeth Salander.
They are all incorporated into her work, which is on view through March 7 in her exhibition “The Fluidity of Gender” at Sinclair Community College.
Besides expressing the need for female superheroes and warriors, her latest creations are fueled by a re-defining of traditional masculinity and femininity, said Stein, whose art was purely abstract until Sept. 11, 2001, when she was working as usual in her studio in the vicinity of what soon became known as Ground Zero.
“The police came to our door to tell us to leave right away. They told us to run. I ran the whole day, from one end of Manhattan to the other. Someone would tell us to go to a certain subway station, but it was closed down when we got there, so we ran somewhere else,” she said.
She stopped making art for an entire year after that. When she resumed, her work had changed. It “had become vertical,” and then details began to emerge.
Source: Dayton Daily News