"Axis Mundo" at the Hunter College Art Galleries

March 27, 2018

ONE Archives at the USC Libraries is pleased to announce that Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. will be presented at the Hunter College Art Galleries in New York this summer. Part of an exhibition tour organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), Axis Mundo will be on view June 22 through August 19, 2018 simultaneously at two of Hunter College's exhibition venues: 205 Hudson Gallery, located in Soho, and the Berta and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, located at Hunter College's main campus on the Upper East Side. Organized by ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, Axis Mundo was first presented last fall at the ONE Gallery, West Hollywood, and MOCA Pacific Design Center for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Find information on Hunter College's presentation of Axis Mundo below.  


Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
On view June 22 – August 19, 2018
Gallery hours at both locations: Wednesday–Sunday, 1–6pm


Opening reception: June 21, 2018, 6–9pm  


205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013
 
Berta and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 East 68th Street, New York, NY, 10065

 

Image: (top) Teddy Sandoval, Detail of Las Locas, c. 1980. Acrylic and mixed-media on unstretched canvas, 39 x 52½ in. (99 x 133.4 cm). Courtesy of Paul Polubinskas. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen

 

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