Mark Sink
American photographer (born 1958)
Mark Sink (born 1958, Denver, CO) is an American photographer best known for romantic portraiture. Some of his most recognizable images include documentation of life and work of artists such as Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard and other artists from the New York art scene of the 1980s, before returning to Denver. Mark Sink has been exhibiting his work professionally since 1978 to the present day from street art, commercial galleries, museums and other institutions.
Photography
Career
Sink started his career using the Diana, a 120 plastic toy camera, whose soft focus and inconsistencies create beautifully romantic black and white images. The artist used this simple tool to create moving and intimate portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and Rene Ricard, Grace Jones, Keith Haring, Adam Fuss, Edward Ruscha to Uma Thurman and many others. Sink's long career includes work from darkroom to digital, photo silkscreen, Polaroid, cyanotypes, and silver prints, as well as platinum printing. In the past decade, Sink and his partner Kristen Hatgi Sink have been using an early photographic process of collodion wet plate for romantic portraiture, photographing friends and models to Governor John Hickenlooper, Gogol Bordello, Ryan McGinley and Dennis Hopper.
Exhibition History
His portraits and other works have been continuously exhibited in the United States, South America and Europe. His work has appeared 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, as well as many commercial art galleries in group and solo exhibitions. Sink's contributing editorial photography appeared in print and online in Vogue, Artforum, Art in America, Interview Magazine, Aspen Magazine and MGF.
In 2011, Sink was included in Warhol in Colorado at the Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, alongside photographers John Bonath and Valere Harris Shane, featuring photographs of Andy Warhol taken in New York and Colorado in the 1980s.
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