Monica Majoli (born 1963 in Los Angeles, California[1]) is an American artist whose artwork examines the relationship between physicality and consciousness expressed through the documentary sexual image.
Majoli earned her BA (1989) MFA (1992) from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she focused primarily on painting and drawing, developing a process-based, time-intensive approach which result in discreet bodies of work.
[3] In an interview with Paulina McFarland for Art XX Magazine, Majoli stated, "My use of sexuality revolves around the desire to stimulate a visceral response in the viewer to the actualities of our physical nature.
The idea itself came from the floor to ceiling black mirrors encircling the walls of the master bedroom of her Los Angeles home, originally installed in the 1970s by a previous owner.
"[4] Through the conjuring of absence, the work also explores the separation from her Italian father (a lithographer based in Milan, who inspired her to use lithography in the non-representational component of the series).