{"id":12494,"date":"2015-01-07T22:01:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=12494"},"modified":"2015-01-07T22:01:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:01:54","slug":"queering-the-lines-rebecca-levi-thread-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/queering-the-lines-rebecca-levi-thread-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEERING THE LINES: REBECCA LEVI &#8211; THREAD &#038; INK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Press release via Leslie-Lohman Museum Recommends | January 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Queering the Lines: Rebecca Levi Thread &#038; Ink<\/h2>\n<p>December 5, 2014 &#8211; February 1, 2015<br \/>\nBureau of General Services &#8211; Queer Division, 208 W. 13th St., Room 210 New York, New York 10011, USA<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My thread-based and pen &amp; ink work is influenced by images in found photography, mid-century magazines, and 1970s porn. In my embroidered portraits, I subvert the norms of the medium with the unexpected, inviting a playful collision between traditional handicrafts and the untraditional themes of queer identity and gender performativity. In my Bear Series, I reinterpret the art of vintage homoerotic physique magazines for contemporary &#8220;bear&#8221; gay male culture, substituting hirsute and hefty for smooth and svelte. In Wrestling Girls and the Bad Romance Series, I explore the dynamics of female desire and hidden queer histories from vintage pin-up pics and mid-century romance comics. Other pieces in the show play with source material from news reels, statuary, and internet memes.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; Rebecca Levi<\/p>\n<h2>Rebecca Levi<\/h2>\n<p>is a New York City born and based artist. She received her BA from McGill University in Montreal. Her embroidery and pen-and-ink work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions including &#8220;Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community&#8221; at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (New York), Soho Gallery for Digital Art (New York), Four Eleven Studio (Provincetown), Deluca Gallery (New York pop-up), Galapagos Art Space (Brooklyn), and Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Arts Projects (Toronto). Her embroidered work &#8220;Breakfast Boy&#8221; is one of the artworks featured in the just released Play Smart trading card series from Visual AIDS. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccalevi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.rebeccalevi.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release via Leslie-Lohman Museum Recommends | January 2015 Queering the Lines: Rebecca Levi Thread &#038; Ink December 5, 2014 &#8211; February 1, 2015 Bureau of General Services &#8211; Queer Division, 208 W. 13th St., Room 210 New York, New York 10011, USA &#8220;My thread-based and pen &amp; ink work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[873],"class_list":["post-12494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queer-art","tag-rebecca-levi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}