Flomenhaft Gallery Presents THE FLUIDITY OF GENDER: SCULPTURE BY LINDA STEIN, 5/17-6/23

The Flomenhaft Gallery presents The Fluidity of Gender: Sculpture by Linda Stein, a 5-year touring exhibition/lecture/performance to more than 20 United States museums and universities thru 2015, stopping in New York City, May 17 - June 23, 2012. The opening reception will be held Thursday, May 17 from 6 - 8pm with a dance performance at 6:45.

Linda Stein's art has been passionately engaged in tearing down all forms of gender prejudices, as she increasingly focuses on celebrating the fluidity of gender. Art historians Christina M. Penn-Goetsch, Margo Hobbs Thompson, AnnVollman Bible and others have written extensively about how Stein continues to "break down boundaries between female, male, feminine and masculine" doing so "with the clear intent of dismantling a hegemony that limits individuals and values one gender over another."

A Keynote speaker for peace and equality on more than 150 television, radio, magazine and online formats, Stein takes a no-holds-barred approach toward critiquing egregious patterns of gender-based violence in our culture, invoking a more enlightened experience of gender identity. "My goal," Stein says, "is to use my art to transform social consciousness and promote activism for gender justice. With my androgynous forms I invite the viewer to seek out diversity in unpredictable ways, to 'try on' new personal avatars and self-definitions, realizing that every new experience changes the brain's structure and inspires each of us toward a more authentic self."

Have you ever wondered what feeling more masculine or feminine would actually be like? Linda Stein will help you experience that, and more, through her unique gender-empowering wearable sculptures.

Linda Stein's media interviews, including the one in 2006 when she was duped into being in the Borat movie, demonstrate that she is no dupe. She was told that they needed to interview her as a noted "sculptor on Masculinity/Femininity" for a movie to help third-world women, and that it would not be shown in America. When she became aware of the journalistic hoax, Stein threw the phony journalist out of her studio and subsequently decried the racism and homophobia ostensibly addressed in this movie.

The gallery is located at 547 W. 27th Street, Suite 200, New York, NY.