November 8, 2024 – February 2, 2025
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.
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.
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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