ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
and MOCA
present
Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.

ANTHONY FRIEDKIN, Jim and Mundo, Montebello, East Los Angeles, 1972. From The Gay Essay, 1969–73. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm). Gift of Anthony Friedkin. ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries. Courtesy of Anthony Friedkin

Opening reception: Friday, September 8, 2017, 7-9pm
Admission is free with a suggested donation of $5.

In collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art and part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, this exhibition marks the first historical presentation of groundbreaking art, music, and performance from a network of queer Chicano artists in Southern California.

Presented simultaneously at two locations in West Hollywood:

MOCA Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Information and hours for visiting MOCA PDC here.

ONE Gallery, West Hollywood
9007 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Information and hours for visiting the ONE Gallery here.

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. maps the intersections and collaborations among a network of queer Chicano artists and their artistic collaborators from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.This period was bookended by the Chicano Moratorium, gay liberation, and feminist movements on one end, and the AIDS crisis on the other. For many artists in the exhibition, Axis Mundo marks the first historical examination of their work to date. Over two decades of artwork encompassing painting, performance ephemera, print material, video, fashion, and photography will be presented. The exhibition broadly considers the work of the artists in the context of significant artistic and cultural movements: mail art and artist correspondences; the rise of Chicano, gay, and feminist print media; the formation of alternative spaces; fashion culture; punk music and performance; and artist responses to the AIDS crisis.

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is organized by David Evans Frantz, Curator at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, and C. Ondine Chavoya, Professor of Art and Latino/a Studies at Williams College in collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

ONE Gallery, West Hollywood
September 8 - December 31, 2017
Tuesday–Friday: 11am-5pm
Saturday–Sunday: 11am-6pm
Closed Monday
9007 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90069 · Map
Phone: 213.821.2771 · E-mail: askONE@usc.edu
One Website

MOCA Pacific Design Center
September 8 - December 31, 2017
Tuesday–Friday: 11am-5pm
Saturday–Sunday: 11am-6pm
Closed Monday
8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90069 · Map
Phone: 310.289-5223 · E-mail: info@moca.org
MOCA Website