AXIS MUNDO—QUEER NETWORKS IN CHICANO L.A. is a PST: LA/LA exhibition exploring the links between queer Chicano artists and their collaborators from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.
Paintings, drawings, videos, artists’ magazines, mail art, flyers, and other ephemera by Skot Armstrong, Vaginal Davis, Mundo Meza, Tomata du Plenty, Teddy Sandoval (Butch Gardens School of Art), Joey Terrill, Jack Vargas (Le Club for Boys), and more are on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center and the ONE Archives Gallery through the end of the year.
AXIS MUNDO is organized by David Evans Frantz and C. Ondine Chavoya, in collaboration with MOCA, Los Angeles.
AXIS MUNDO—QUEER NETWORKS IN CHICANO L.A., through December 31.
MOCA PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER, 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood.
ONE ARCHIVES GALLERY, 9007 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood.
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Patssi Valdez, Portrait of Sylvia Delgado, circa early 1980s. Hand-painted photograph with ink and pastel, 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm). Courtesy of Patssi Valdez. Photograph by Ian Byers-Gamber.
Harry Gamboa Jr., Roberto Gil de Montes, 1978. Gil de Montes shown with his work Tongue Tied in the No Movie exhibition at LACE, May 2–31, 1978. Chromogenic print, 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm). © 1978, Harry Gamboa Jr.
Gerardo Velázquez, The Neglected Martyr, 1990. Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 66¼ in. (203.2 x 168.3 cm). Gift of the Nervous Gender Archive to the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries. Photograph by Fredrik Nilsen.
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