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Fred Hughes
Lauren Hutton
Dan and Annette Jacobs
Kelly Kane
Montana Katz
Haruo Kimura
Paul and Musa Klebnikov
Victoria Lilienthal
Lynnie Lewis
Gerard  Malanga
Robert Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Parent
Campion Platt
Gerry Rothberg
Elizabeth Saltzman
John Sweet
Robert Sweet
Jim Signorelli
Maria Snyder
Brian and Lavinia Snyder
Jacqueline Spaniel
Charles Symington
Anna Wintour

REGIONAL

George and Joan Anderman
Alfredo Garcia-Lucio
Evan & Elizabeth Anderman
Anschutz Family Foundation
Alan Becker
Woody Beardsley
 Mitzi Handler
John & Linda Berman
Tom & Michelle Bottelo
Charles Calloway
Raymond Clark
David Cohen
Tom & Noel Congdon
Dana Crawford
Donna Crown
Rebecca D. Dominico
Eugene Deikman
Linda Derschang
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Partick & Lynnde Dupays
Doug and Judy Etkin
Barbara Fey
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Kevin Causey
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Karen & Don Ringsby
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Lewis Sharp
Ted & Joyce Strauss
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BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:             
                                                                                                                                           
1982-present   Sink Photography Studios,  NY / Denver
1999-present   Owner and Director of Gallery Sink
1999-2000       Interim Director  Museum of Contemporary Art /Denver 
1997-2006       Founding board member Museum of Contemporary Art /Denver
2003-present  Adjunct Professor, Colorado University, Boulder Fine Art  Photography
1995-present   Instructor Denver Darkroom / Working with Artists
2000-present   DADA Denver Art Dealers Association
2004-present  The Denver Public Library Acquisition Committee
1995 -1999       Alliance For Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, board member
1993  1996       Regular photography contributor ,Westword Denver Co.
1993- 2001      Director of Fine Art Photography Cooperative- "The Denver Salon"          
1991  present    Regular Fashion and Portrait contributor to: Aspen Magazine, Icon Magazine,    Colorado Arts 
1982 -1990        Published Editorial Portraits: Details Magazine, Interview, Manhattan Inc., Vogue, Electricity Flash Art, Art & Antiques, ArtForum, Art in America, City Magazine   

1984-1990 MGF Magazine, (Men’s Guide to Fashion) Editor at Large/Chief Photographer, New York, NY

1983- 1990 Circus Magazine, Staff Photographer, New York, NY

1982- 1985  Interview Magazine, Regional circulation/ Advertising / Contributing Photographer

 

RECENT COMMERCIAL CLIENTS

TEACHING AND LECTURE:

3/07  DOCA Denver Office of Cultural Affairs workshops.
2/07  Workingwithartists.org  lecture “submitting to art galleries”
3/06  Visiting professor University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
1/03  Adjunct Professor, Colorado University, Boulder Fine Art  Photography
3/04 World Pinhole Day Workshops, Working
6/00  Rocky Mountian School of Art  graduate critique  
4/00  SPE (Society  of Photographic Educators)  Panel and slide lecture
10/99 Nelson College Lecture, portfolio review and juror
1999  ASMP (Asso. of Magazine Photographers)  annual meeting , slide lecture
1997 -present   The Denver Darkroom “The Sensuous Image”
5/95  Denver Center for Fine Photography , Alternative photographic methods work shops.
6/95  Photography at the Summit, Jackson Wyoming,” Methods for the little guy in the big world”

 

 AWARDS:
        
2006       Best of Denver Westword for Best Historic Photography Show.
2006       DAM Contemporaries honor AFKEY recipients.
2002      Celebrate Colorado Artists Festival   First Place
2001      AFCA, AFKEY Award, (Alliance for Contemporary), Art, Denver Art Museum
2000      Celebrate Colorado Artists Festival  First Place
1999      Best of Denver  Westword  Best Gallery Opening                                              

• Best of Denver  Westword  Best  Group Photography Show

1998      Hasselblad Awards “Beyond Words” 50th anniversary, Photonika Cologne Germany
1991      Who's Who in Photography, Five Corners Publishing
1989      Top Forty, Maine Photographic Congress, Sponsored by Kodak, Rockport, ME
1983      Images In Silver Award,  Kodak, National Competition, Boulder,
1982      First Place & Honorable Mention,  Denver Center for Performing Arts, Denver
1982      Best Self-Promotion Award, Westward Magazine, Denver
1976      Award of Merit, County Court House, Permanent Ceramic Installation, Denver
1975      Gold Key to Nationals from the regional Junior Scholastic Art Awards

BIBIOGRAPHY  CRITICAL REVIEWS (Personal Work)

6/00     Denver Post  Walls Blooming with Blossoms,  Joanne Ditmer
2/98     Wall Street Journal  “Photographers Set Thier Sights on a Virtual Future”, Megen Doscher
1/98      Westword Salon Selective Mark Sink continues his family's artistic heritage,  Michael Paglia
1/98      Denver Sidewalk Photo' exhibit bends the rules  Simon Zalkin
12/97     Rocky Mountian News, “Surreal statements about the West”, Mary Chandler
12/97     WestWord “View Finders” Michael Paglia
 4/95      American Photo “The Joy of Collecting ” Best Photographers. Russell Hart
2/15/95   Westword “Net Worth “ Hart Hill
2/95        Icon Magazine Off The Highway : The 1st Internet Art show. Leslie Petrovski
1/29/95   Denver Post Internet-spawned “Highway”show takes wrong turn. Steve Rosen
1/25/95   Rocky Mountain News, “Mark Sink’s Modem Art Vision” Mary Chandler
8/94        Pretty Decorating NYC’s downtown arts magazine, Claire Mcconagy                                                                                                                                                                      
10/13/91  Westword “Blurred’s- Eye View” Nancy Clegg
10/10/91   Rocky Mountain News “Contrasting Work in LoDo galleries” Carol Dickinson
           

BIBIOGRAPHY BOOKS/ PUBLICATIONS/ GENERAL INTERVIEWS
2006 Plastic Cameras Toying With Creativity, Michelle Bates, “Mark Sink the Diana King” Focal Press.
2006   North Denver Tribune Mark Sink: Life , Art  in the Highland. 9/7/06
2006  RMN interview “ Exbiting Patience founders see contemporary art museum turn 10 , headed for new building” Erika Gonzalez 11/16/06
2006  Metromode Denver interview issue #7
2006  Catalog essay for Susan Junker Paris France 
2006  No Knock Room Italy interview “Andy Warhol the un-told stories.
2005  Andy Warhol images for “ One Hour Ahead” The Avant-garde in Aspen, 1945-2004. Dean Sobel and the Aspen Art Museum.
2003  Shots Magazine interview
2002  5280 Magazine Denver “Point And Shoot, Behind the Lens with Mark Sink
2000 THEY magazine  interview
6/00  Shots Magazine My Travels  with Diana
1997  Photometro interview  by Peggy Sue Amison
1997  Graphistock #3
1996  Denver Confluence of the Arts, Meridian International.
1996  Graphistock #2 stock catalog
1994  American Photography  The Joy of Collecting  March 1994
1994  Shots Magazine  regular contributor
1993  Graphis,  Zurich, Switzerland, "The Nude"
1990  Petroglyphs and Pueblo Myths of the Rio Grande, Carol Patterson-Rudolph, New Mexico Press,                               
1990 The Flatiron, A Photo History of New York's Most Famous Building,  AIA Press   
1989 Warhol Diaries,  Warner Publishing, Six  Photo Illustrations, Six Diary Mentions
1987 New Yorker Magazine, Photographic illustration of Slaves of New York, Catcher in the  Rye, Cell without a Number Prisoner Without a Name, and Silent Spring

 

PHOTOGRAPHY OF FINE ART CATALOGS:

1/87-present  

56 Bleecker Gallery NYC.-  Carl Apftelschnitt, Auste, Julian Beck, Mike Berg, Edward Bresenski, Arch Connely, Bill Gian, Robert Hawkins, Scott Kilgour, Bruno Schmidt, Stefano, Tom Woodruff

Gallerie Fabien Boulakia Paris- Jean Michel Basquait, Photographs, Portrait, '90         

Marlborough Gallery NYC- John Alexander, Botero, Frederick Brown, Red Grooms, Howard Kanowitz, Larry Rivers , AlexKatz, Leger,Hugh O’Donnell,  Picasso, Neil Welliver Tony Shafrazi-  Mark Wilson
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery-  Francesco Clemente, Jean Michel Basquiat, J. Boggs, David Bowes,  Andy Warhol Keith Haring, Willem De Kooning, Quattara, Shenge, Cy Twombly,              

Whitney Museum- Red Grooms installation, Jean Michel Basquiat, Portrait,

Other- Claudio Bravo, James Lee Byers, George Condo, Crash, Daze, Felix Pene DuBois, Fidel Marquez. Paul Georges, Alain Jacquet, Buffy Johnson, David LaChapelle, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol,Sylvia Martins, Dennis Oppenhiem, Rene Ricard, Miguel Rios, Larry Rivers, Ed Ruscha, Vittorio Scarpalatti, Kenny Scharf, Teresa Serano, Tom Shannon, Stephen Sprouse, Mark Wilson, Philippe Weisbecker.

Denver Artists include: Steve Alvarez, Don Carleno, Dale Chisman, Bill Gian,
John Hallen, Bill Hays, Wes Kennedy, Mary Mackey, Jesus Polanco, Emily Ripley, Jeff Star .Bill Stockman John DeAndrea, David Zimmer, Steve Batura, Matt ONeil. Scott Chamberlin, Lawrence Argent, Tree Larita, Emilio Labato                                     

 

SPECIAL INTERESTS:                                                                                                                                  
Previous board member of Denver Art Museum and the Museum of ContemporaryArt / Denver
Previous Director and curator of The Denver Salon, a fine art photography group.
Curation of Internet photography web sites and exbitions, and traveling photography exhibitions.                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Research on tenth generation NewYork heritage. Great Grandfather,
James L. Breese, society photographer, founder of the NY Camera Club and Great Uncle, Samuel Breese Morse, portrait painter and inventor of the Morse Code. Founder of the New York Academy of Design.

Polaroid Series, signed Polaroid’s of personalities, artists and writers
Experimentation with alternative developing and printing techniques.
Curated “The Codex” (Limited Edition Art Books containing original art work)
Producer of Art Performance Group, “Mud Men”, that performs semi-annually  
Computer Graphics; Adobe Photoshop and Quark Express    
Creating and running community gardens.

WEB PAGES
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http://www.noknockroom.com/
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http://rulegallery.com/
http://www.robinricegallery.com
http://members.aol.com/marksink/index.html
http://www.thesight.com/  
http://www.denverart.org/
http://festivaloflight.net

 

CURATOIAL PROJECTS 1997 2007

2007
April  Flash Art Alternative Processes Show
June  The Kristen and Shelby show
February Critical Mass , Photolucida Portland OR  ( traveling exhibit)
January- March Jason Appleton , Gallery Sink Drawings Paintings and Ceramics

2006
December  Jason Appleton , Gallery Sink Drawings Paintings and Ceramics
June “and i don’t want to live on the moon” Curated by Harry C Walters and Mark Sink
Jeremiah Teustch, Chad Dawkins, Jason Blanco,Justin Beard,Terry Campbell, David Brady, John Walters, Frank Smuckendecker, Kristen Hatgi, Jason Appleton,Amy Bennett, Agnes Kunz, Harry C Walters.
January – May continued Early Contemporary Photography Gallery Sink

2005
December Early Contemporary Photography Gallery Sink
Winter Prather | Jim Milmoe | Walter Chappell Arnold Gassan | Nile Root | Syl Labrot. Reviewed RMN. Denver Post, Westword
July 8th Annual Contemporary Exhibition The Art Center Grand Junction Co
March The Painted Violin, DYAO Denver Young Artists Gallery Sink
March  “The Intimite Floral” The Center for Fine Art Photography Fort Collins Co.
February Critical Mass ,Gallery Sink from Photolucida Portland OR  ( traveling exhibit)

2004

December  Mr Pool, Boulder Painting Sculture Film, Drawings Photography, Boulder
October  Gallery Sink Brian Doan  Landscapes
October  MOP, Month of Photography Denver and region Celebrates Photography. Denver Post , RMN, Westword
October Exhibition Art Center, Manitou Springs  Rocky Mountain Regional Photography 

August – September Gallery Sink Jason Appleton Paintings/ Drawings Ceramics

June – August  Summern Show Gallery Sink,  A selection of new color work by gallery artists Rayna MangerTedford,  Mindy Sink, Vanessa Gochnour,Tom Beresford, Dan Asher, Lori Nix, Kristen Hatgi, Ron Landucci

April     Gallery Sink World Wide Pinhole Day  www.pinhole.org

 

April – May 2004 Gallery Sink Jeremiah Coleman Teutshch, Amy Bennett (Westword Artbeat)
April 24th 2004  Gallery Sink Wesley Willis Art Music and Video

February- April Gallery Sink  Kimberly Gremillion “Circus”  

February Gallery Sink , Staged Fantasy Visual science fiction, intuition and dreams frozen in time and space. Lori Nix,  “Waiting To Happen” Anne Arden McDonald Alan Rabold Julia Margaret Cameron Annie W. Brigman Ruth Thorne-Thompson Miro Svolik Francesca Woodman Syrie Kovitz  Pavel Pecha Wes Kennedy Bill Thomas

2003

December- February Gallery Sink Staged Fanatsy ( RMN, Westword artbeat)

October- November Gallery Sink The Photographed Word Studies in the use of words and photography Doug Keyes : “Collective Memory” Also: Clint Imboden Susan Evans Cherie Hiser Duane Michals Roland Bernier Susan Lipper Liliana Gelman

August- September Gallery Sink Purvis Young Urban Expressionist ( Reviewed RMN, Denver Post)

May – July  Gallery Sink Dresden Reliquary Photographs by Fredrik Marsh

May   Gallery Sink, East High School student photography show.

2002
February – May  Gallery Sink Dan Asher Icebergs, photographs and drawings
July – September  Gallery Sink Platinum  a rare passion. James L. Breese,  Dan Burkholder,   Jill Burkholder, Phil Harris, Nick Havholm, Steven Hayes, Derek Johnston, Kerik Kouklis, David Lawrence, Sally Mann, Tom Millea, Thomas Mezzanotte, Andrea Modica, Kevin O’Connell, Gonzalo Rufatt

September Gallery Sink Humor Show “a show of humorous photographic works”
Richard Bram Thomas Beresford Chris Makos Duane Michels James Soe Nyun
Clare Cornell Sandy Skoglund Michael Ensminger Elliot Erwitt Bill Owens
Bernice Halpern Cutler Joel Dallenbach  Justin Quinnell Don Donaghy Alan Rabold

2001
December Gallery Sink Niki Hogan Paige Vercelline

December  Mr. Pool Laurel Koessler, Niki Hogan, Eric Havelock-Bailie, Inna Valin, Christopher James, Kerik Kouklis, RJ Muna, Don Carleno,
Jason Appleton, Phil Bender, Alice Major, Bernice Halpern Cutler, Cameron Jones, Lee Anne Schmidt, Pamela Creevey, Todd Colletti, Mary Pellegrino, Jefferson Rubin, Valentine Orkokov, Presley LaFountian, Adam Felgemaker,

May Gallery Sink Human Form 
Anne Arden McDonald/ Radek Grosman BB Chase Bert Stern Dominic Rouse Inna Valin Irving Claw Jock Sturges Lee Anne Schmidt Pamela Creevey Paul Schroder RJ Muna Ron Landucci Ruth Bernhard Ruth Throne-Thomsen Susan Evans  Susanne Junker Tamaki Obuchi Tamara  Gallegos Tia Faulk  Vincent Serbin  Zabo Chabiland

March – April Gallery Sink  Emotional Distance 
Robert Adams Walter Chappell Nathan Cranston Chuck Forsman Erik Gould Hal Gould Emmet Gowin William Henry Jackson Susan Lipper Fredrik Marsh Blake Milteer Kevin O’Connell Eric Paddock Winter Prather Paul Raphaelson Otto Roach
Charles Walters Dennis Witmer Ron Wohlauer

2000

March – May   Scott Chamberlin Twelve Years : Drawing and Sculpture Museum Of Contemporary Art Denver

February Real to Surreal , Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Rebecca Alzofon Karen Bozik Don Carleno Jeff Carpenter John DeAndrea
Greg Esser Chuck Forsman John Fudge Robert Hawkins Wes Hemple Peter Illig
Terry Maker  Sophie Matisse Mark Nelson Matt O’Neil Dave O’Brien Barbara Shark
Daniel Sprick Jeff Starr Bill Stockman Sandra Wittow Paul Wunderlich

September SOHO PHOTO  Juror Krappy Kamera Competition  NYC

September Off the Highway  Gallery Sink
A fine art photography exhibition curated from an internet salon.
Michael Scott Berman NY, Darin Boville MD, Richard Bram UK, Bernice Halpern Cutler NY, Kristin Dale NY, Patrick J Donahue CA, Nic Havelome CO, Kerik Kouklis CA, Suzie Lee NY, Alice Major NJ, Monica Martin AL, Anne Arden McDonald NY,
Steven Meyers WA,  Tom Miller IL, Tamaki Obuchi JP, Steve Procko, FL, Justin Quinnell UK, Paul Raphaelson NY, Francis Schanberger OH, Joe Starkey VA, Jock Sturges WA, Tim Timmermans CA, Lucille Tortora NY, AnnMarie Tornabene NY, Inna Valin  MN, Gerry Walden UK, Cece Wheeler VA, Shar Wolff VA, Lois Youmans NY

 

November Gallery Sink  Ann White   “Fifty Years” A survey of paintings and watercolors, 1950-2000.

December Gallery Sink  Photography as Abstract
David Brady John Halin Bryan Boettiger Anne Arden McDonald Joe Shmuckindecker Francis Schanberger Zabo; Kennith Jones  Eric Havelock-Bailey Tom Aaron
Shaun GothwaiteJohn Bonath     Steven Meyers Eric Havelock-Bailey Carol Peters;   
Kevin O’Connell

1999
January – April  Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Unique Visions,  Floral Show Tamaki Obuchi, Adriene Veninger Steven N. Meyers, Carol Henry, Walter Chappell, Susan Evans, Kevin O’Connell, Karl Blossfeldt, Adam Fuss Marie Cosindas Paul Outerbridge Jr. Tom Baril, Phil Bender, Robert Mappletrope , Reviews: RMN, Denver Post, Westword , Westword Best of Denver , Best photo group Show.

October Exchange show, Denver & Kitakyushu

The Denver Salon at Gallery Soap and Gallery Soap at Gallery Sink

Gallery Soap at Gallery Sink Eight photographers living in Kitakyushu City
and Fukuoka City. Fukuoka is a big neighboring city of Kitakyushu.
Fumio Hanano  Kazuaki Maeda  Kazuyuki Iwata   Mihoko Fukumura   Toshiaki Mihara
Tamaki Obuchi   Mashiro Oku   Wen-Tsan Chang Philippe Wittenbergh

October The Denver Salon at Gallery Soap Kitakyushu Japan
Mark Sink  Inna Valin  David Zimmer  Paul Schroeder  John Hallin “  Eric Havelock-Bailie Susan Evans  Kevin O'Connell  Shaun Gothwaite  Christopher James  Bryan Boettiger, Jeff Hersch  Micheal Ensminger  Allen Birnbach  Naomichi Ishibashi  Reed Weimer Wes Kennedy  James L. Breese.  The show was visited by Mayor Wellington Webb during his tour of Japan.

Street Level: A Century of New York Street Photography,Singer Gallery of the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture co-curated with director Simon Zalkin

Don Donaghy, Alan Rabold,   Arlene Gottfried, Jeff Mermelstein, Fred McDarrah , Joel Meyerowitz, Clemens Kalisher, Larry Fink,  Chris Makos,   Bill Witt, Nan Goldin, Elliot Erwitt, Alfred Steiglitz, Diane Arbus, Patrick McMullan,  Gerard Malanga, Asako,
Orville Robertson, Laura Merage, Ralph Gipson, Satoru Yoshioka, Sam Bolton, Gary Winogrand, Cherie Hiser, Joel Dallenbach, Brendan Harrington, Ralph Gibson,,

1995
November    OFF THE HIGHWAY (Organized and curated) Rule Modern and Contemportary

1982

 John Doe Deer, Multi media show, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO