Channeling Luchita: A Community Response to the Life and Work of Luchita Hurtado
Millicent Rogers Museum (MRM) and Taos Abstract Artist Collective (TAAC) are proud to announce Channeling Luchita: A Community Response to the Life and Work of Luchita Hurtado, a collaborative exhibition and curatorial response. Curated by Claire Motsinger, Deborah McLean and TAAC artists, Bob Parker and Jill Kamas, this exhibition presents 10 New Mexico artists whose styles and conceptual practices respond to the themes conjured in Hurtado's artistic body of work.
The exhibition will be presented from November 8th, 2024 - February 2nd, 2025 at the Millicent Rogers Museum (1504 Millicent Rogers Rd, El Prado, NM 87529).
The opening reception will be held on Friday, November 8th from 5:30pm - 7:30pm.
The exhibition is free, accessible and open to the public. Conceived as a creative response to the Harwood Museum of Art's exhibition "Luchita Hurtado: Earth and Sky Interjected," the curatorial response in "Channeling Luchita" is a unique approach to expanding a community dialogue about a beloved Taos artist whose impact is global, provocative and enduring.
Born in Venezuela and settling later in Santa Monica, California, Luchita Hurtado developed a lasting connection to Taos through time spent at her second home in the village of Arroyo Seco.
A lifelong artist who studied at the Art Students League in New York City in the early part of the last century, Hurtado was ‘discovered’ by the art world at the age of 95 and rose to international acclaim throughout the last four years of her life. Hurtado was included in TIME 100’s most influential people and enjoyed her first solo museum exhibition, ‘I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn’ at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London in 2019 and later at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
The estate of the artist is now represented by Hauser & Wirth. Hurtado died at the age of 99 in 2020. Aligned with the spirit of Hurtado’s life and practice, the artists within the Channeling Luchita exhibition respond to themes of visibility and invisibility in practice, abstraction, mysticism, natural landscape and the body. Channeling Luchita pays homage to Hurtado, an artist who brought her unique vision to Taos and a global community through her years of continual artistic pursuits. This exhibition celebrates Hurtado and shifts the narrative to recognize the exemplary work of contemporary New Mexico artists who share her devotion.
Channeling Luchita includes the work of the following New Mexico artists:
Audra Elizabeth Knutson
c marquez
Dean Pulver
Josh Tafoya
Lynnette Haozous
Margaret R. Thompson
Maye Torres
Olive Tyrrell
Rick Romancito
Tse Tsan
Deep Pool I, Margaret R. Thompson
oil and wax on clay panel.
Image courtesy of the artist
Untitled, Olive Tyrrell, clay.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Located at 1504 Millicent Rogers Road in Taos, New Mexico, the Millicent Rogers Museum (a 501c3) partners with communities of the Southwest to share their stories, arts, and cultures. Museum hours are 10am to 5pm, seven days a week. General admission is $20, with $15 admission daily for veterans, students, and seniors (65+). Taos County residents receive free entry to the museum every Sunday. Free daily admission for children under 6, museum members, and tribal members. Please check www.millicentrogers.org for updates about this exhibition and for winter hours.
Taos Abstract Artist Collective (TAAC) promotes abstract artists living and/or working in Northern New Mexico, toward the exchange of ideas, new aesthetics and creative concepts. Taos is synonymous with abstract thinking, with origins in indigenous geometries, transcendental and modernist movements, and conceptual and land art installation. Once the nexus for westward bound artists, Taos unleashes expansive, abstract thinkers.
TAAC is an inclusive group that amplifies self-identifying abstract artists living and working in Northern New Mexico, honoring our intersecting identities across race, national origin, ethnicity, culture, size, gender identity and expression, disability, sexuality, age, socioeconomic status, neurotype, religion and/or spiritual practice. All abstract artists are welcome in their pursuit of provocative expression. Taos Abstract Artist Collective offers curated and juried exhibitions, artist talks, studio visits and collaborative community concepts. TAAC is an artist-run volunteer 501(c)(3) organization.