{"id":10858,"date":"2013-12-26T15:36:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T13:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=10858"},"modified":"2016-01-19T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T08:11:02","slug":"queer-threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/queer-threads\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press release from Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

We are pleased to announce our next exhibition opening on January 17th, 2014!<\/p>\n

Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community<\/h2>\n

Exhibition dates: January 17 to March 16, 2014
\nPublic Opening: January 17, 2014 6-8 pm<\/p>\n

Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community will be on view January 17 through March 16, 2014 at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Queer Threads, a group show curated by John Chaich, explores notions of aspiration, socialization, and representation within the LGBTQ community through artists employing thread-based craft materials, techniques, and processes.<\/p>\n

While many of these artists are internationally recognized in the craft and art communities, this exhibition marks the first time these works have been shown together to specifically highlight their queerness. Comprised from a mix of well-established and emerging talent from across the United States, as well as Argentina, Canada, and South Africa, this exhibition will feature artists Chris Bogia (New York), Melanie Braverman (Massachusetts), Jai Andrew Carrillo (California), Chiachio & Giannone (Argentina), Liz Collins (New York), Ben Cuevas (California), Pierre Fouch\u00e9 (South Africa), James Gobel (California), Jesse Harrod (Virginia), Larry Krone (New York), Rebecca Levi (New York), Aubrey Longley-Cook (Georgia), Aaron McIntosch (Maryland), Allyson Mitchell (Canada), John Thomas Paradiso (Maryland), Sheila Pepe (New York), Maria E. Pi\u00f1eres (California), Allen Porter (deceased), L. J. Roberts (New York), Sonny Schneider (Denmark), Buzz Slutzky (New York), Nathan Vincent (New York), and Jessica Whitbread (Canada).<\/p>\n

Queer Threads will fully activate the Museum\u2019s gallery through felt paintings, yarn drawings, embroidered portraits, knit sculpture, quilted tapestries, and crocheted installations, as well as video. From Nathan Vincent\u2019s life-sized crocheted men\u2019s locker room, to Liz Collin\u2019s oversized knit pride flag based on Gilbert Baker\u2019s 1978 original design, works range from intimate to expansive in scale. From Allyson Mitchell\u2019s found afghans emblazoned with phrases such as \u201cPride is a Pyramid Scheme,\u201d to James Gobel\u2019s use of felt, acrylic, and yarn to create a portrait of fashion design team Costello Tagliapietra, many of Queer Threads\u2019 artists mix craft technique or materials with traditional mediums, while others fully employ craft processes.<\/p>\n

\ufffc\ufffc Flowing off the wall to the floor, L.J. Roberts\u2019 The Queer Houses of Brooklyn in the Three Towns of Breukelen, Boswyck and Midwout during the 41st Year of the Stonewall Era, particularly exemplifies the use of craft techniques to explore contemporary queer culture as it incorporates knitting, embroidery, and quilting to create a colorful, multi-textured sculpture mapping queer, cohabitating collectives. With references to the AIDS quilt and ACT UP iconography, the piece honors punk DIY aesthetics and traditional craft, as well as the families we create. This work is on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum who purchased the piece after it was shown in its 2013 40 Under 40: Craft Futures exhibition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new visions and voices in Queer Threads, uniquely expressed through craft traditions, expand on Leslie-Lohman\u2019s commitment to examining the diversity of the LGBTQ experience through art,\u201d says Hunter O\u2019Hanian, Executive Director. In doing so, Chaich notes, \u201cUsing craft to celebrate and critique identity and community is very queer in all senses of the word\u2014unusual, political, and personal.\u201d<\/p>\n

A range of guest docents will lead tours of the exhibition, including fashion design team Costello Tagliapietra; Debbie Stoller, author of the Stitch n\u2019 Bitch Nation series of knitting books and editor-in-chief of BUST magazine, and designer Todd Oldham, creator of the Kid Made Modern series of books and supplies.<\/p>\n

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