Linda Stein: The Art Of Soft Power
    In 2007, the artist Linda Stein, who lives in East Hampton and TriBeCa, had a retrospective exhibit at the Nathan D. Rosen Museum in Boca Raton, Fla., of 37 sculptures of "powerful, abstract, larger-than-life torsos" that transcended gender and were cast in wood, metal, and stone.

    Ms. Stein's work is exhibited continually at the Flomenhaft Gallery in New York City, and this month, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, a magazine devoted to feminist analysis and media criticism, featured an interview with the artist.

    In it, Ms. Stein discusses her work since Sept. 11, 2001: "It took me three years after 9/11 to realize that the sculptural forms I was creating had become female knights possessing a combination of seemingly antithetical qualities: power/vulnerability, masculinity/femininity, warrior/peacemaker."

    A solo exhibit, "Linda Stein: The Power to Protect," is scheduled to open in 2009 at the National Association of Women in Manhattan.