Recent Developments: Catherine Opie

If you haven't been to MOCA in downtown Los Angeles recently, you'd better hurry. Its current exhibit, The Personal is Political: Women Artists from the Collection will close on October 10.

We're particularly excited because MOCA's exhibit prominently displays an original chromogenic print of Catherine Opie's "Self-Portrait" (1993). You may remember that Opie was one of the 11 photographers who were part of our inaugural exhibit, L8S ANG3LES. In her work, Opie (who once described herself as "a kind of twisted social documentary photographer") intimately explores concepts of identity. Her powerful self-portraits and her documentation of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and transvestite community have received national attention. You can read more about Opie and see some of her work in our past exhibitions archive.

Of course, "Self-Portrait" fits in perfectly with the other artists' works in Personal is Political, who work in every media from oil paint to video installation, but share a common interest in body politics. But, we have to say, we've got a soft spot for the photography in the exhibit.