Episode No. 479 features artists Monica Majoli and Mario Ayala.

Majoli and Ayala are in "Made in L.A. 2020: A Vision" the Hammer Museum biennial that has been installed -- but is not yet on public view because of the pandemic -- at the Hammer and The Huntington Library. Its opening is TBD. 

Majoli is primarily a painter whose work has explored sex, sexuality, and power.

Ayala is a painter who mines Latinx material culture and the Western painting tradition in ways that foreground Chicano culture.