THREADS – 2009
Threads
June 7 – 26, 2009
SOMArts Gallery and Cultural Center
San Francisco, California
Opening Reception: June 7, 2009
3pm
Threads Curatorial Statement
Queerness weaves the threads of our physical, social and moral existence together into a multi-dimensional fabric of community and our selves.
As queer artists we continue to create complex identities and imagine new modes of address through a myriad of queer tactics, textures and sensibilities.
What are the threads that bind, mend and sometimes unravel this spectacular fabric of queer art? How does this queerness operate? How does it present itself? How do we fashion, perform, subvert or display queerness in our art and lives?
We hope to explore these themes in art in all mediums that incorporate (in the broadest sense of these ideas): sewing, knitting, weaving, braiding, binding, knotting, textiles, quilting, patchwork, costuming, fashion and fashion events, drag, second skins, performance art, woven texts, blogs, digital networks and communities.
Curators: Tirza True Latimer, Rudy Lemcke, Matt McKinley, Pamela Peniston, Allison Smith, and Tina Takemoto
Exhibition Co-ordinators: Courtney Dailey & Tamara Loewenstein
More detailed descriptions and artists statements can be found on Queer Cultural Center’s Archive pages: THREADS SHOW
Threads Artists:
Adams, Atticus Ahearn, Bren Der Ananian, Greg Baldwin, Mara Ball, Jasper Gregory Bazant, Micah & Ramstad, Emmett Boudreaux, Zee Boyer, Travis Buitron, Michael Claude, Teri Clausen, Alex Collins, Liz Cros, Muriel Cummings, Torreya Ellsworth, Angela Faulk, David & Johnstone, Michael Fiveash, David |
Gerard Romero, David Gratland, Paige Hammond, Harmony Hanasik, Jason Hellstern-Kjoller, Henriette Hillman, Patrick Hogan Finlay, Onya Hubbard, Katherine Huron, Sade Indigo Girls Kahn, Jesse M. KillerBanshee Lohner, Harold Lopez, Steven Vasques Lorch, Kate/Fletcher, Welly Maida, Lee Metzger, Cyle Monday, Zak |
Muholi, Zanele Naschke-Messing, Ali Pepe, Sheila O’Arwisters, Ramekon Rinehart/Kurz Roberts, Lacey Jane Robinson, Michael Sylvan Roseborough, Tim Rossi, Kjerstin Rubiku, Anila Sanders, Jeremy Simms, Jeannie Telford Keogh, Catherine Tess, Rebecca Ulrich, William Cricket Waters, Irene Whitehead, Anna Wilson, Angie |
REMIX was funded by The Zellerbach Family Fund and the San Francisco Arts Commission.