The Journal of Modern Craft, Volume 16, issues 2-3 (2023)

Exhibition Review: Queer Threads at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, May 12–August 20, 2023 Curated by John Chaich

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A multi-colored, digitally woven blanket that features the image of two figures, in recline collaged over images of leafy plants and cut-outs of fisted hands, with long lacquered nails

April Bey, Guess Jeans: I Just Want to Have My Titties Out, 2022. Digitally woven blanket with hand- sewn fabric and flatter. 80 x 240 inches.

T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Toxic Shock, 2023 (personal and recycled fabrics and fibers, elastic, and D-Rings, 48 x 34 inches).

The Journal of Modern Craft, Vol. 16, issues 2-3 (2023)

“The curator John Chaich’s Queer Threads maps how all of today’s pleasures, hopes, and hurts are tied to those of yesterday and tomorrow, and it illustrates how tensile strength can be gained from entwining questions of political agency with the inimitable force of our desires.”

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Ricki Dwyer, First Impressions, 2020. Cotton, dye, steel, aluminum, ball chain, plinth. 48 x 42 x 18 inches.

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