Mark Sink

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Mark Sink

Mark Sink (* 1958 in Denver ) is an American photographer.

Career

Mark Sink began his work with a Diana , a 120mm plastic toy camera; their soft focus and variability create romantic black and white photographs. With this simple tool, Sink created moving and intimate portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and Rene Ricard, Grace Jones , Keith Haring , Adam Fuss , Edward Ruscha , Uma Thurman . Over time, works have been created in the darkroom , digitally , in screen printing , in the dry gelatin process , as polaroid , cyanotypes , and as platinum prints . In the 2000s, Sink and his partner Kristen Hatgi Sink used an early form of photography , collodion wet plate , for their portraits. Photographers and models who were friends were shown, as well as Governor John Hickenlooper , Gogol Bordello , Ryan McGinley and Dennis Hopper .

Mark Sink lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Kristen Hatgi .

Exhibitions

His portraits and other work have been exhibited in the United States, South America, and Europe. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art , Denver Art Museum , Museum of Contemporary Art Denver , Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeffery Deitch Projects, Kinsey Institute, and MUFOCO. Sink has worked as a journalist for magazines such as Vogue , ArtForum , Art in America , Interview Magazine , Aspen Magazine and MGF.

Act

Month of Photography (MoP Denver)

Mark Sink is the founder and director of the Month of Photography Denver (MoP). Since 2004, when the festival gained popularity, Sink has been coordinating over 180 regional galleries, museums and art spaces every six months to celebrate national and international art in Colorado. For the final years of the MoP Festival, RedLine has hosted the main exhibitions curated by Mark Sink. In 2017, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center exhibited in the RedLine Project Space in addition to its own exhibition space.

Denver Salon / Denver Collage Club

Sink has founded organizations dedicated to contemporary innovative photography and art. The Denver Salon was founded in 1992 and became the Denver Collage Club in 2014, which exhibits contemporary art from living Denver artists and organizations. The Denver Collage Club is an active participant in the Month of Photography.

Big Picture / Festival of Light

The big picture is part of the MoP. It is an international street art exchange program in which photographs are applied to public places in over fifty cities worldwide using paste. The Month of Photography Denver is part of the international Festival of Light, a collaboration of photography festivals from around the world, including Denver, Paris, Houston, Aleppo, Buenos Aires, Derby, Mexico City, Montreal and Toronto.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

In 1996, Mark Sink, Dale Chisman, Marine Graves and Lawrence Argent teamed up with philanthropist Sue Cannon to open Denver's first museum of contemporary art . Before the MCA moved to its permanent location in 2007, Mark Sink was a director of the museum until 2000 and remained on the board as an original member of the founding team until 2005.

Gallery Sink

In parallel with the planning of the MCA Denver, Mark Sink opened his own art gallery, Gallery Sink, in the historic Denver-Highland neighborhood in 1998 . Artists on display included Andy Warhol , Alice Neel , Chris Makos , Marie Cosindas , Paul Outerbridge , Walter Chappell , Winter Prather , Imogen Cunningham, and others. The Gallery Sink celebrated success for several years until the stock market crash ; at the same time, Sink decided to focus on his own work as an artist, while freelancing as a curator and art consultant and developing the Month of Photography. Mark Sink has been a photography teacher, visiting professor, and critic in the United States since 1995. After his gallery assumed a nomadic character, Sink travels to photography festivals and was part of the jury for FotoFest, CENTER, PhotoLucida, PhotoFence, Palm Springs Photo Festival in New York and Arizona, among others.

Publications (selection)

Mark Sink's most recent publications include an article on his retrospective of the Byers-Evans House Museum , interviews with Colorado Public Radio about Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and articles in Denver Westword, as well as international coverage of the Month of Photography 2017 in L 'Oeil De La Photographie and Seities Magazine, and for Wet Plate Day. His interviews about The Andy Warhol Diaries and his name are part of The Andy Warhol Diaries Index, as well as a retrospective of Warhol's work in Fort Collins, where Sink and Warhol met. Sink's journalistic work can be found in TIME, Mother Jones, and the Getty Images Archives.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Mark Sink Biography - Mark Sink on artnet. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  2. ^ Mark Sink, Colorado Photographic Arts Center. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 18, 2017 ; accessed on September 6, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cpacphoto.org
  3. ↑ Kristen Hatgi Sink's website , accessed on February 6, 2018
  4. ↑ BMoCA - Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Retrieved September 6, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Jeffrey Deitch | 1981: The Studio of the Street. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 18, 2017 ; accessed on September 6, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deitch.com
  6. ^ Kinsey Collections. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  7. ↑ home. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Mark Sink - Dikeou Collection. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  9. ^ Month of Photography Denver: An Interview with Founder Mark Sink. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  10. ↑ MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2017. Accessed on September 6, 2017 (English).
  11. ↑ Susan Froyd: Month of Photography 2017: Eleven Not-to-Miss Shows . In: Westword . March 3, 2017 (English, westword.com [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  12. ↑ RedLine. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Sarah LaVigne: Month of Photography Denver. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Every Breath We Drew: Jess T. Dugan - CPAC: Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  15. ↑ INTERVIEW: MARK SINK OPENS PANDORA'S BOX FOR MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY | zing magazines. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  16. ^ Festival Of Light. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  17. ↑ About. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  18. ^ Mark Sink: Colorado Photographic Arts Center. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 18, 2017 ; accessed on September 6, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cpacphoto.org
  19. ↑ Kyle MacMillian | The Denver Post: Showing of Mark Sink's photos just scratches surface. In: The Denver Post. September 29, 2010, accessed September 6, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Corey H. Jones: Denver photographer shares stories of Andy Warhol . In: Colorado Public Radio . (English, cpr.org [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  21. ↑ Slideshow Jean-Michel Basquiat Photos By Mark Sink . In: Colorado Public Radio . (English, cpr.org [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  22. ↑ Susan Froyd: Photographer Mark Sink Keeps the Focus on Denver's Past, Present and Future . In: Westword . February 16, 2016 (English, westword.com [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  23. ↑ Set course for Denver, Colorado! - The Eye of Photography . In: The Eye of Photography . April 19, 2017 (English, loeildelaphotographie.com [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  24. ↑ SEITIES {TRADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY PUBLICATION + GALLERY}: THEME: NUDE / SEITIES {TRADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY PUBLICATION + GALLERY}. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  25. ^ Mark Sink, Author at World Wet Plate Collodion Day. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 18, 2017 ; accessed on September 6, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wetplateday.org
  26. ↑ Mark Sink Interview. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  27. ^ Andy Warhol: The name game: the first complete Warhol Diaries index . [New York]: Fame Magazine, 1989 (English, gov.au [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  28. ^ Andy Warhol: Prints from the Cochran Collection | Fort Collins Museum of Art . In: Fort Collins Museum of Art . (English, ftcma.org [accessed September 6, 2017]). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ftcma.org
  29. ↑ Rachel Lowry: In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2015. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  30. ↑ "Ho Hey," It's The Lumineers . In: Mother Jones . (English, motherjones.com [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  31. ↑ "Mark Sink" Pictures and Photos | Getty Images. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Sink, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver