Organized by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, “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 ravages of the AIDS crisis on the other. Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. marks the first historical consideration of these artists in the context of broader artistic and cultural movements: mail art, the rise of alternative print media, fashion culture, punk music, and artists’ responses to the AIDS epidemic.
The exhibition will be presented at both the ONE Archives’ gallery in West Hollywood, temporarily located at 9007 Melrose Ave., and MOCA Pacific Design Center on San Vicente Boulevard at the Pacific Design Center plaza.
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 Latina/o studies at Williams College, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
MOCA Pacific Design Center is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
