One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting

50 ½ minute 16 mm continuous film loop of artists Luchita Hurtado and Julie Mehretu in conversation The idea for a film featuring Hurtado and Mehretu grew out of Deans incredible chance discovery in 2019 that these two artists both longtime friends of hers shared the same birthday of November 28and moreover that in 2020 Julie would be turning 50 and Luchita 100 Filmed over the course of a single day January 3 2020 in Hurtados Santa Monica apartment the artists conversation meanders through subjects ranging from motherhood to the environment to their experiences immigrating to the US as children and most movingly to painting as a way of understanding ones place in the world description adapted from Jennifer King associate curator of contemporary art at LACMA