Wolfpack HQ is an exhibition series in the archives of Luchita Hurtado and Lee Mullican continuing their shared commitments to intuitive inquiry, experimental approaches, and artistic exchange
2025—2026:
Janeth Aparicio Vazquez
Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida
Deborah Hede
Daniel Ingroff
Zoe Koke
Adrienne Maki
Jabari Wimbley
Documentation by Paul Salveson
This program is free and open to the public
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Luchita Hurtado (1920–2020)
Luchita Hurtado was a Venezuelan-born, Los Angeles–based artist whose practice spanned over nearly eight decades. Moving fluidly between abstraction and figuration, her work centers on an investigation of universality and transcendence. The breadth of her experimentation involved unconventional techniques, materials and styles that speak to the multicultural contexts that shaped her life and career.Closely connected to generations of artists and writers from the Dynaton movement to the L.A. avant-garde, Hurtado nonetheless worked largely outside the structures of recognition until late in life, when her visionary, feminist, and ecological sensibility was acknowledged as foundational to postwar American art. Her first solo museum exhibition took place in 2019 at the Serpentine Galleries in London, which traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Today her work is held in the permanent collections of institutions such as MoMA, SFMOMA, LACMA, and the Hammer Museum among others.
Lee Mullican (1919–1998)
Lee Mullican was an American artist whose hypnotic mark-making fused Eastern philosophy, modern physics, and mid-century abstraction into a visual language of vibrational rhythms. A central figure in the Dynaton movement, he developed a distinctive technique of layered, "striations” that pulse across the canvas, rendering perception as living field rather than a fixed image. Deeply influenced by meditation, jazz, and quantum thought, Mullican approached painting as both a cosmological inquiry and a disciplined daily practice, a way of tuning into the invisible structures that shape reality. His work proposes art as a site where science, spirit, and sensation meet, inviting viewers into a recalibration of how seeing and being intertwine. Mullican was a longtime Professor of Art at UCLA and exhibited widely throughout his lifetime, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pasadena Art Museum, and UCLA’s Wight Art Gallery. His work is held in the permanent collections of museums including MoMA, SFMOMA, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum among others.