In conjunction with Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, we’ve restyled our weekly in-gallery talks with a superb lineup of past SECA Art awardees. Each Thursday at 6:30 p.m. an artist talks about something on view. Last week, Kathryn VanDyke (2000 SECA Art Award) talked about Agnes Martin and her painting Falling Blue:

Agnes Martin, _Falling Blue_, 1963

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Kathryn VanDyke on Agnes Martin’s Falling Blue.

Kathryn Van Dyke, _Thought Pattern_, 2002

Kathryn VanDyke, _Knowing You, Knowing Me #2_ (SECA installation view), 2000; Collection SFMOMA

Kathryn VanDyke with Agnes Martin's _Falling Blue_

Kathryn VanDyke (2000 SECA Art Award) received her MFA from Yale School of Art in 1993. She currently shows with Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco.

Tomorrow night: Maria Porges on Janine Antoni’s Lick and Lather.

UPCOMING SECA 50th Anniversary Artist-on-Artist Talks:

Feb 23: Shaun O’Dell on Kamau Amu Patton

Mar 1: Chris Finley on Vija Celmins
Mar 8: Josephine Taylor on Mitzi Pederson
Mar 15: Jordan Kantor on On Kawara
Mar 22: Rebeca Bollinger on artist TBD
Mar 29: Hung Liu on Rosana Castrillo Díaz

DON’T MISS THESE! Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. Talks last 20 minutes and are free with museum admission — which is half-price Thursday eves, or of course, totally free if you’re a member. If you can’t make it into the galleries, check back here on Wednesdays: we’ll record and post the audio to Open Space each week.