Join Harwood Museum of Art, Millicent Rogers Museum, and Taos Abstract Artist Collective (TAAC) for an exciting conversation series honoring the life and work of Luchita Hurtado. This panel will bring together fellow artists and friends who knew Luchita during her part-time residency in Taos. Luchita Hurtado’s friends and fellow artists Ron Cooper, Cynthia Patterson, Happy Price, and Hank Saxe will share their memories and reflect on her legacy. The conversation will be moderated by Nicole Dial-Kay, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at Harwood Museum.
The first panel of the series will take place on January 19 and will bring together artists who contributed work for the Channeling Luchita community response exhibition at Millicent Rogers Museum on view until February 2. Both panels are inspired by the exhibition Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected on view at Harwood Museum until February 23, 2025.
About Luchita
Born in Maiquetía, Venezuela, in 1920, Luchita Hurtado committed almost eighty years of her art practice to the research of universality and transcendence. Expanding her creative vocabulary through a coalescence of abstraction, mysticism, corporality, and landscape, the breadth of her work with unconventional techniques, materials, and styles testifies to the multicultural and experiential environments that molded her life and career.
Photo by Matt Mullican. Luchita Hurtado in Santa Monica Canyon studio, 1973. This program is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
