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Past Event

Queer Threads

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

Date:
May 12, 2023–August 20, 2023
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Price: $10
Type of event:
Member ExArtist Member Exhibition
Location:
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
520 S 1st St
San Jose, CA , 95113
United States
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April Bey, Guess Jeans: I Just Want to Have My Titties Out, 2022. Digitally woven blanket with hand-sewn fabric and glitter, 80 x 240 in. Courtesy of the artist

Queer Threads is a traveling group exhibition and coffee-table book exploring contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer experiences through fiber and textile traditions. This latest iteration spotlights 38 works by 37 artists with roots in the American West, Northwest, and Southwest, as well as work from the museum’s collection. From the impeccably finished to the intentionally raw, many works are fully executed through thread-based processes such as crochet, embroidery, quilting, and weaving, while others interact with animation, clay, light, metal, and photography. Each artist's use of material choices and technical finishes suggest poetic and subversive intentions.

Dating from 1972 to 2023, the works assembled position queerness within the history of domestic crafts and fiber arts while responding to their inherent gender connotations, feminist herstories, cross-cultural intersections, and tactile experiences. Themes of history and futurity, intimacy and topography, physicality and spirituality, vulnerability and security, labor and leisure, as well as individuality and community, emerge across the four galleries. Here, queerness serves as a point of both connection and tension.

Although all of the featured artists are LGBTQ-identified or allies, not all of the content explicitly is—and that’s perfectly queer in this context. By breaking through binaries of art and craft, male and female, gay and straight and beyond, the exhibition embraces differences and encourages experimental approaches to hand and machine textile practices.

Curated by John Chaich with the support of Ryan Patrick and Anke Larsen-Yskamp.

ARTISTS EXHIBITING IN QUEER THREADS

AIDS Memorial Quilt, Indira Allegra, April Bey, Tammie Brown, Diedrick Brackens, Craig Calderwood, Amanda Currieri, Gregory Climer, Lola Corona, Ben Cuevas, Rakeem Cunningham, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Jovencio de la Paz, Erika Diamond, Ricki Dwyer, Andres Payan Estrada, Chiachio & Giannone, James Gobel, Harmony Hammond, Angela Hennessy, Alexander Hernandez, Kang Seung Lee, Aubrey Longley-Cook, dani lopez, Richard-Johnathan Nelson, Jasmine Nyende, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Joel Otterson, Maria E. Piñeres, Robb Putnam, RoCoCo, Erik Scollon, Sunny Smith, Molly Vaughan, Nathan Vincent, Angie Wilson, Mikki Yamashiro.


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