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Exhibition

2019 SECA Art Award

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Sahar Khoury, Marlon Mullen
November 16, 2019 - September 2020
Floor 2, California Galleries

The 2019 SECA Art Award exhibition features three Bay Area artists, each with a dedicated gallery: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Sahar Khoury, and Marlon Mullen. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle’s interdisciplinary practice explores “the historical present,” her term for the persistent residue of history in contemporary life. Sahar Khoury transforms discarded materials into sculptures animated by freewheeling experimentation and personal narrative. Marlon Mullen takes magazine covers as his primary source imagery, translating them into vividly painted abstractions. These awardees were selected from among sixteen finalists.

Exhibition Preview

Marlon Mullen, Untitled, 2018; courtesy the artist; JTT, New York; and Adams and Ollman; © Marlon Mullen; photo: Charles Benton
Sahar Khoury, Untitled (Security Gate Topiary), 2019 (detail); courtesy the artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco; photo: Becca Barolli
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, The Sower Pt. II, from The Uninvited Series, 2016; courtesy the artist; © Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle

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illy is the Presenting Sponsor of the 2019 SECA Art Award: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Sahar Khoury, Marlon Mullen.

Generous support is provided by Concepción S. and Irwin Federman and SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art), an SFMOMA art experience group.

Header image: Marlon Mullen, Untitled, 2018 (detail); courtesy the artist, Adams and Ollman, JTT; © Marlon Mullen; photo: Charles Benton