Lesbian artists celebrated in three new California exhibitions: ‘Long overdue’
Monica Majoli, Millie Wilson and Susan Silton gain visibility in LA after decades of queer women’s artistic erasure In the late seventies, when the LA-based artist Monica Majoli was 12, she began spending her afternoons at Sisterhood Bookstore, a feminist bookstore in Los Angeles that has long since closed.
She would stay all afternoon “searching for my tribe”, she says.
One day, she found a photograph of the Ovulars, a group of feminists who held photography workshops at a lesbian commune in rural Oregon between 1979 and 1983.
Through photography, the Ovulars were documenting and self-fashioning a vision of lesbian life in real time.
They are at the center of Monica Majoli: Countervision, which brings her new drawings into the June L Mazer Lesbian Archives, presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), alongside material from Sisterhood and the Ovulars.
Some of Majoli’s drawings sit in a five-drawer flat file for visitors to handle; others are embedded within the Mazer’s holdings.
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