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Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.

  •  Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
  •  Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
  •  Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
  •  Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
  •  Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
  •  Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
  •  Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
  •  Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
  •  Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
  •  Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.

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Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is a traveling exhibition that explores the intersections among a network of over fifty artists. This historical exhibition is the first of its kind to excavate histories of experimental art practice, collaboration, and exchange by a group of Los Angeles based queer Chicanx artists between the late 1960s and early 1990s. While the exhibition’s heart looks at the work of Chicanx artists in Los Angeles, it reveals extensive new research into the collaborative networks that connected these artists to one another and to artists from many different communities, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, and international urban centers, thus deepening and expanding narratives about the development of the Chicano Art Movement, performance art, and queer aesthetics and practices.

As referenced in its title, the exhibition also sheds light onto the work of Edmundo “Mundo” Meza (1955-1985), a central figure within his generation. Primarily a painter, but also known for his performances, design, and installation work, Meza collaborated with many of his peers towards developing new art practices amid emerging movements of political and social justice activism.

Axis Mundo presents over two decades of work — painting, performance ephemera, print material, video, music, fashion, and photography — in the context of significant artistic and cultural movements: mail art and artist correspondences; the rise of Chicanx, LGBTQ, and feminist print media; the formation of alternative spaces; fashion culture; punk music and performance; and artistic responses to the AIDS crisis. As a result of thorough curatorial research, Axis Mundo marks the first historical consideration and significant showing of many of these pioneering artists’ work.

Artists: Laura Aguilar, Jerri Allyn, Carlos Almaraz, Skot Armstrong, David Arnoff, Steven Arnold, Asco, Judith F. Baca, Alice Bag, Tosh Carrillo, Monte Cazazza, Edward Colver, Vaginal Davis, DIVA TV, Jerry Dreva, Tomata du Plenty, Elsa Flores, Anthony Friedkin, Harry Gamboa Jr., Roberto Gil de Montes, Gronk, Jef Huereque, Louis Jacinto, Ray Johnson, Robert Lambert, Robert Legorreta (Cyclona), Les Petites Bonbons, Scott Lindgren, Mundo Meza (including collaborations with Simon Doonan), Judy Miranda, Ray Navarro (including a collaboration with Zoe Leonard), Nervous Gender, Graciela Gutiérrez Marx and Edgardo-Antonio Vigo, Richard Nieblas, Dámaso Ogaz, Pauline Oliveros (including collaborations with Alison Knowles), Ferrara Brain Pan, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Clemente Padín, Phranc, Ruby Ray, Albert Sanchez, Teddy Sandoval, Joey Terrill, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Patssi Valdez, Ricardo Valverde, Jack Vargas, Gerardo Velázquez, Johanna Went, and Faith Wilding

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an initiative of the Getty to encourage ambitious research and exhibitions at Southern California cultural institutions. The exhibition is organized by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries in collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and organized as a traveling exhibition by Independent Curators International (ICI). Lead support for Axis Mundo is provided through grants from the Getty Foundation. This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support has been provided by The Calamus Foundation of New York, Inc., the City of West Hollywood through WeHo Arts—the City’s Arts Division and Arts & Cultural Affairs Commission, Kathleen Garfield, the ONE Archives Foundation, the USC Libraries, and the Luis Balmaseda Fund for Gay & Lesbian Archives, administered by the California Community Foundation. Funding for the exhibition tour has been provided by the generous support from ICI’s International Forum and the ICI Board of Trustees. Crozier Fine Arts is the Preferred Art Logistics Partner.

More information can be found on the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives website here.

updates

The Berkshire Eagle: Historical Look at Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.

“‘The show traces a history from the emergence and intersections of the Chicano civil rights movement, the gay and lesbian liberation movements and the women’s movement and then looks at the impact that that had in generating new artistic strategies and new artistic modes of making,’ Chavoya said during an interview with Frantz on Tuesday. […]

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SPOTLIGHT: AXIS MUNDO

As they travel, ICI exhibitions offer the potential of larger, more ambitious and deeply researched projects than would otherwise be possible without the sharing of knowledge and resources available through ICI’s network. When Alisha Kerlin, artist, educator, curator, researcher, and the executive director of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, […]

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UNLV News Reviews Axis Mundo

D.K. Sole reviews Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., reflecting on the exhibition’s positive reception at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Marjorie Barrick Museum: “Quite possibly the best exhibit to arrive at the UNLV Barrick Museum ever,” said Patrick Naranjo, the resource coordinator from UNLV’s multicultural center, The Intersection. This is a big […]

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Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. Interview on KNPR Radio

Photo by Fredrik Nilsen/Courtesy of Pat Meza Mundo Meza, Merman with Mandolin, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 111 in. (182.9 x 281.9 cm). Collection of Jef Huereque. Meza’s “Merman with Mandolin” is featured at UNLV’s Barrick Museum in “Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.” The little-known but influential artist, who inspired the exhibition, […]

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A CONVERSATION WITH JOEY TERRILL: Homeboy Beautiful, Malflora & Maricón T-shirts, and Still Lifes

Following the opening of Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. at the Hunter College Art Galleries in New York, ICI Exhibitions Intern Kiara Ventura talks with exhibiting artist Joey Terrill about his activism in the Chicano gay liberation movement of the 1970s, the origins of his zine Homeboy Beautiful, and his current projects. Axis Mundo: Queer Networks […]

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Axis Mundo Catalogue wins The American Association of Art Museum Curators’ Award for Excellence

The Axis Mundo exhibition catalogue, co-published by USC-ONE Gay and Lesbian National Archives and Prestel, has won this year’s American Association of Art Museum Curators’ Award for Excellence for an Outstanding Printed Publication for its groundbreaking new scholarship! The Awards are the only of their kind by which curators honor their own. A list of all the […]

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Axis Mundo Public Programs in Los Angeles

In conjunction with the presentation of Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. as a part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries and MOCA, Los Angeles have organized related programs including a panel discussion with the curators, performances, and screenings.

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touring schedule

Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, MA, USA
June 9, 2019 - September 12, 2019

Lawndale Art Center
Houston, TX, USA
June 4, 2019 - February 6, 2019

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV, USA
November 1, 2019 - January 1, 1970

The Hunter College Art Galleries
New York, NY, USA
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives Gallery
West Hollywood, CA, USA
September 9, 2017 - January 1, 1970

MOCA Pacific Design Center
West Hollywood, CA, USA
September 9, 2017 - January 1, 1970


Booking Info

Tour Dates: 2017 - 2021 Number of Artists/Collectives: 50 Number of Artworks: Approximately 150 Space Requirements: Between 3,000 – 4,000 square feet For additional information, as well as to check specific dates of availability, contact Becky Nahom at 212.254.8200, or becky@curatorsintl.org.

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