Adam's Rib: Women Artists Contemplate Religion at LES FusionArts Museum

FusionArts Museum on the Lower East Side has two new exhibitions. In the main gallery, Adam's Rib, features 14 accomplished women artists presenting work that speaks to a woman's role (or absence of it) in organized religion.

That exhibit  curated by artist and museum founder Shalom Newman runs through August 22, 2010

In the lower gallery poet and writer Steve Dalachinsky, a contributor to Brooklyn Rail among other publications, explores fusion art in his first solo exhibit in New York City.

The Sunday opening was graced by extraordinary readings and performances by Chavisa Woods and Carol Lipnik.In keeping with the theme of the opening and the weekend's Pride March focus, Ms. Woods read some powerful work about identity, religion and memories of growing up in the mid-west. Ms. Lipnik,accompanying herself on a mini-keyboard that sounded like a harmonium,shared some healing verses followed by a requiem of sorts for the hole in the Gulf of Mexico, with a haunting and lovely refrain of "Deepwater Horizon." Despite the insufferable heat of a summer evening on the lower east side, both poets had the audience transfixed. It was a sweltering, but decidedly cool evening, at the FusionArts Museum


FusionArts Museum

57 Stanton Street between Forsyth and Eldridge Streets
3 blocks from the New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York, NY 10002
212.995.5290

12 - 6 pm SUN, Tues - THURS, 12 PM - 3 PM FRI
MON by appointment only
closed SAT
http://www.fusionartsmuseum.org/