Museums and galleries across Los Angeles are opening fall exhibitions focused on artists and movements that have been overlooked in art historical narratives. The shows run through December and beyond, spanning venues including the Hammer, the Getty, and the Armory. Among them are retrospectives of individual artists alongside group shows examining communities and political histories.
At the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives in West Hollywood, American artist Monica Majoli has created drawings based on photographs from the Ovulars, a series of photography workshops led by lesbian photographers between 1979 and 1983. The exhibition, called Countervision and running through November 21, pairs Majoli's work with materials from the Sisterhood Bookstore, a feminist bookshop that operated in Westwood from 1972 to 1999. The Hammer Museum is presenting a retrospective of Huguette Caland, a Beirut-born painter who spent much of her life in Los Angeles and died in 2012.
At REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles, an exhibition called Flesh Witness examines the impact of militarism in Asia and the Pacific, running through December 13. The show focuses on Hawai'i, Korea, Okinawa, the Philippines, and Samoa, featuring work by 11 artists and collectives exploring how power is reinforced through landscape and physical structures. The exhibition was organized by the Korean arts nonprofit GYOPO and scholar Amy Kahng.
At Oxy Arts in Highland Park, Hold Each Other's Hands explores networks of communal care established by transgender people from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s, running through December 5. The show features archival materials and contemporary art documenting systems developed to provide housing, healthcare, and security. At the Getty, a show on five influential Chicanx photographers presents various views of Los Angeles across different eras.