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Join us for Seidel City’s first Last Friday.

Celebrate the closing of Echoes in the Void: Works by Four Contemporary Abstract Painters on Friday, July 31, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, with artist talks beginning at approximately 7:00 PM.

One final evening celebrating Echoes in the Void. Hear directly from exhibiting artists Rio Rayne and Daniel Strawn, along with curator Mark Sink, as they share the stories, creative processes, and inspirations behind the works on view.
Whether you’re visiting Seidel City for the first time or returning to see the exhibition once more, we look forward to welcoming both new and familiar friends for an evening of conversation, community, and contemporary art.
The exhibition features the work of Rio Rayne, Matt O’Neill, and Daniel Strawn, alongside From My Archives, a photography and collage presentation curated by Mark Sink.
We hope you’ll join us for one final evening before Echoes in the Void comes to a close.

Silent Rite, 2025
Daniel Strawn
Acrylic on panel, 24.5 × 25.5 in.
Untitled Abstract, 1988, from the series The Scarves of Isadora Duncan
Rio Rayne
Paint and pencil on paper
Weeds in Garden I Call My Own
Matt O’Neill
Acrylic on linen

Eli Lichtenstiein Untitled 2010
Adam MilnerGathered Drapes, 2011
Corinne Vionnet 2005
Kristen and Mark _BNC 2010

James Milmoe 1966
Susan Vaho 2002
Matt ONeil 2026
Rio Wayne 1988
Daniel Strawn 2026

3205 Longhorn Road Boulder, CO
https://www.seidelcity.com by @marksink

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2 months ago

OK sorry to do this to you but one for the road into the sunset.

A warm thanks to everyone that came out for MCA’s Mixed Taste Cuba and Andy Warhol.

So many friends there and all the kinds notes ..means more than you know.

Thank you MCA… Working with Sarah Baie / @bobbylefebre and team was dreamy…its a regular high end variety show, production .. a smart fun mc, spot lights, and music and cooking segments and live audience participation… and a spoken word poet @kenyamahogany11 summing it all up AMAZING!.

For those that missed the speedboat here is my narrative / lecture and images up on my project archive blog … Comments, grievous errors let me know. I will be editing and adding titles dates credits

https://marksinkphotography.blogspot.com
(Link in Bio)

I was scared to death but thank heavens…
I rolled through a couple hundred slides a Mixed Taste record..

Getting laughs and joyful hoots and claps really really helps …

My mission was to brief over things most people might not know… fun facts.

Set the stage with Andy’s little known first show outside of NYC in Aspen 1956. Blotted line works that he did with his mother Julia.

Next was Expo 67 and our family trip to Montreal there in Bucky Fullers dome was Andy the superstar of the artists presented. I was nine years old.

Next was out to my great aunts BridgeHampton beach home where Andy had been the weekend before filming Loves of Ondine. My signature next to his.

Next was meeting at the Denver art museum in 1977 getting the double Elvis poster signed.

Next was falling in love in Ft Collins 1981 bloody from a bicycle race crash and being invited into his personal world…

The shock and repulsion at first seeing behind the high art curtain to then coming back realizing the Duchampian genius in it all i was experiencing with my camera in hand. It’s an out of body experience thinking about it all today .. hard to believe i was really there. Thank god i had my camera. And Pat Hackett putting me in Andy’s Diaries.

Andy suddenly leaving us ..that was the end of NYC for me .. it was back to Denver full of bravado a great fertile time to be part of starting all sorts of great things… like MCA by @marksink

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2 months ago

PARIS !

Thrilled and thankful a first round of The Big Picture is up in Montparnasse, Paris <3

Congratulations everyone below.

Special thanks to our talented ambassador Helena Ernst @helenaernst and team Giulia Sidoli @giuliaasidoli and master Matthew Rose @maybemistahcoughdrop … We are UP across from the Old Foundation Cartier on Boulevard Raspail in a very busy block.

Amazing they pulled it off ..the police came asking for papers and swift friendly relaxed repose of Matthew Rose and innocent charm of Helena and Giulia ..“ the police said, “Sure. we’re good. The school is good.” … Whew.

Helena reported she had a BLAST and is ready for more….for now here is what they picked and pasted (just part of her total selections)…more coming . I am grateful to Matthew and Helena for the excellent documentation.

Hip hip hooray !

Ambassador Helena Ernst Ft Collins / Paris FR @helenaernst

Laurie Freitag Another 30 days Safer at Home 2021 Los_Angeles USA
@lauriefreitagphotography

Donna Bassin Environmental Melancholia.Precarious Places.71_2024_Montclair_NJ
@p1nhole.donnabassin

Patricia Howard Unknown Irish Ancestors-Dress-2024-Louisville,Colorado
@patriciahoward154

Jill_Obermaier_Touch_Oak Park_Illinois
@jillobermaierphotography

Jane Waggoner memoji-mori-soldiersibs Billings MT
@janedeschner1

Henry Comés Pritchett Naiad2 CastleRock CO / NYC 2025
@wesawanangel

Paul Cava - The Bride_PHL_PA..upside down but looks great any orientation.
@paul_cava

Kristen Hatgi and Mark Hanna Day 2 Denver CO @kristenhatgisink

Mitchell Brenghause In Absentia_2022 Geneva, IL
@mitchellbrenghause

Matthew O’Brien.The Bishop Billing MT - @thievesbreakin

Wes Kennedy rip Self Portrait Denver CO.

Frank Smucken Decker Fiddle Head Ferns

Jane_Waggoner_Deschner__line-up series (Jesus, party hats)__2015_Billings_MT
@janedeschner1

Jon Lodge_CARBON Nano Dot_EyeOne Profiling Chart_v2_Wheat Past Art
@jon.lodge

Frank Smuckendecker Kristen from Behind Denver CO. taken in Paris, France by @marksink

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3 months ago

MCA Mixed Taste Cuba and Andy Warhol is going to be fast and furious fun… they always are … @mca_denver .

or “fast, easy, cheap, and modern” as Andy would say… in fact, he said to me when reviewing my work, “you gotta be modern “

It’s been a wild ride preparing a 20-minute talk about a lifetime of Andy Warhol.

For those of you over tired me talking about Andy and me, note i am focusing on his strong mother, icons, the mechanical line and photography in all.

I have a lot of fun stories and insights but any one of those takes up 20 mins by itself.

I started out with 300 slides … 3000 word essay. After the family review, I chopped out half CUT CUT CUT .. It’s still a bit manic pushing just to many ideas… so cut cut a little more…. and adding more rare personal witness insight.

Over all its been great to pull down the books ,the Kodachrome of slides, and family history and interweaving it with Andy.

I had great fun writing the essay straight out, then sharpening it up . Online news and museum archives and Warholian fan pages are amazing, great fun to explore.

I am going to post the long essay on my blog.. with a little more eroticism, … and maybe an eventual chapter in a book one day.

There are over 2,000 Unique books. books on Warhol .Dozens of Major Biographies. Blake Gopnik's “Warhol” is the most recent most complete in-depth and insightful. He very kindly helped me with this talk.
1,200+ Exhibition Catalogues
Catalogue Raisonné (6 Volumes)
80 Books by Warhol (or his estate)

A massive posthumous unique art mountain.

Genius is a unique vision….

If you wanna come? strapped , DM me. by @marksink

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3 months ago

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Cuba and Andy Warhol.
Not sure what i was thinking .. i accepted to talk July 15th about Andy Warhol at their wonderful Mixed Taste ” Tag Team Lectures on Unrelated Topics” @mca_denver the other speaker is Anna Alejo a award-winning journalist with CBS talking about Cuba.

Mixed Taste uses one of my favorite words “serendipity” describing how the talks roll. I love the magic of chance.
And it should be noted one of Andy’s early favorite spots in the mid 1950s was a cafe named Serendipity .. he often displayed and traded commercial outtakes for meals and confections.
This touches me because Kristen and I and others traded art for meals with beloved ZCuisine farm to table French bistro here in Colorado.

Andy who is one of the most researched artist in the world is daunting to talk about. So i decided to focus on a few lessor known simple topics that had a great impact on myself and generations of artists.

First is Andy’s mother Julia, and her influence and collaborations, And i focus how all things radiate from Andy as a photographer…and discuss the making of a simple line.

…….and i hope to talk about self promotion with original art.

The event is hosted by my Northside spoken word hero poet laureate Bobby LeFebre.

https://mcadenver.org/events/mixed-taste-cuba-andy-warhol

Oh !!
Free tonight ??

MCA - Mixed Taste kick off …

Synesthesia & the Denver Omelet

MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater
2644 W 32nd Ave Denver, CO 80211

10% tic discount MCAINSIDER10 or DM me for vip ins.

Photos:
Julia Warhol 1957 book Holy Cats
Andy Warhol and Julio Warhol 1954 book launch at Serendipity
Andy and mother Julia by Duane Michaels
Holy Cats by Julia Warhola
The Exotic Calf from tiffany’s 1990 coloring book.
Polaroid big shot camera still life
Andy with the Polaroid camera.
Mick Jagger portrait.
Ephemera of the Polaroid big shot camera that I use.
Campbell soup can drawing by @marksink

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3 months ago

I’ve been on a wild queer history ride this week reading the autobiography “Son of Andy Warhol” by friend and hero Taylor Mead.

Taylor passed away in Denver in 2013. His wonderful niece Priscilla Mead carried his wishes on and assembled and published the memoirs he had been working on for decades. “ A bohemian poet, underground actor, and Warhol superstar. Known as the “first underground movie star” ( 1950s) , he injected queer, scatological defiance and radical humor into both the Beat poetry scene and experimental cinema”.

Through the lens of Taylor, you’re taken on wild adventures, one foot in the gutter one foot in royalty , hitchhiking, cruising his way across the country, stealing cars, flipping tricks, beaten up to near death and stabbed by homo haters, going to jail just for shelter, landing cowboys in Colorado and being a central character in Warhols silver 60s Factory and films and rarley being paid. Landing Montgomery Cliff in Central Park plays with Al Pacino and Schlesingers Midnight Cowboy and Saturday Night Live. Inside accounts of sidekick Holly Woodlawn in Trash are priceless …for Trash was a movie that changed my life in school.

When I first met Taylor at the Odeon in the early 1980s I recognized him from a Saturday Night Live short film about he and his cat. I had no idea he was a Warhol superstar. The first thing he said was “they never paid me”. Throughout the years I got to know Taylor and his history. I built a big fan crush on his performative brilliant dark humor and sensitivity… by far one of my favorite New York humans. He would ask me do you have any money? When i produced a bill he invited me to come to a bodega to buy cat food and walk around the lower side feeding feral cats. He had a lot of cat friends. He came to my opening events, including the Denver Mud People performing in the South Bronx at Fashion Moda. -pictured.

Taylor’s archives, artwork, films, poetry are all here in Denver. Very little has been seen by the public. I hope to help assemble a possible exhibition and public home.

@poparttrio
@artifacts_movie by @marksink

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5 months ago

It’s such a joy working with Seidel city they have a great show opening tonight …Echoes in the Void Works by four contemporary abstract painters.

Featuring Rio Rayne, Matt O’Neill, Natasha Mistry, Daniel Strawn.

And a photography gallery " From My Archive “

Opening Reception: Friday, May 15, 6pm - 9pm

Seidel City
3205 Longhorn Rd. Boulder, CO 80302
Opens May 15th 6-9pm

www.seidelcity.com/echoes-in-the-void

From MY Archive

From My Archive is an ongoing series from my photographic collection of friends, collaborators, collectibles and a group the Denver Collage Club formed by Mario Zoots and Mark in 2016.

Corinne Vionnet

Susanne Junker

Evan Anderman

Kristen Hatgi Sink

Andy Warhol test clips

Eli Lichtenstiein

Steven Myers

Walter Chappell

Vincent Serbin

Erotica - Cabinet cards

Dominic Rouse

Susana Amundrian / Mark Sink

Katie Taft

The Denver Collage Club

Susan Blake

Adam Milner

Mado Resnick

Laura Shill

Mado Resnick

Mario Zoots

George Perez

Les Krims

Jim Milmore by @marksink

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5 months ago

Flash Back Friday
“First Across” 107 Years ago , May 8th 1919 my grand papa Engineer James L. Breese took off from New York headed to Lisbon ..Three giant wood and canvas Navy flying boats.. Just one made it The NC-4. It’s an epic tale few know. It’s just one of the page turner chapters that is being assembled into a magnificent new book by history writer Emmy award film maker and long time friend Steve Procko. Through his rediscovery and forensic research, visual passion and story telling, he produced a treasure. Extraordinary depth in the characters…Its a father and son story, a family story…. a wild wild family story producing an American hero. Of course its an out of body experience me… a wish come true. More soon. This and other stories and teaser reels coming… historybend.org
#Navy-CurtissNC-4
@steveprocko by @marksink

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5 months ago

Duane Michals gifts to Denver University.

A great show is up in the @myhrengallery. My hero.

In the 1970s when i was first starting photography I came across a book by Duane Michals that had a great impact on me at many levels. Portraits, of course, portrait theory. The old adage don’t take a picture make a picture, the camera doesn’t matter, … staged photography, reverse technology using a simple cheap manual 35mm camera normal 50mm lens to make magic. I always say a great picture talks to you and keeps on talking. That is the power of his beautiful work. Several chapters of my life connect directly with him. I’m going share my stories on my blog.

And here he is today sharp, sassy and as ever kicking out better work than most 80 years younger. He is at the top of the pantheon… Roaring.
❤️@theduanemichals taken in Vicki Myhren Gallery by @marksink

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6 months ago

It’s rare to find someone whose drive is so wonderfully pure… the ol art for arts sake.

Outside Influence
Photography in Colorado 1945-1995
by Rupert Jenkins

Like a traveler from the outside looking in Rupert realized there was an important story to be told of Colorado’s rich photographic history. And here it is from hundreds of interviews, countless hours of research we have chapter after chapter of photographic discovery and rediscovery at its best.

I have to ask. ..What if these stories were never told ? Poof gone. I have open wounds now of all but deleted family and art community history.

Our fine art photographic community and educators will increasingly realize what a great gift Rupert has produced. The impact rings radiating around the global photography community. It flies the Colorado flag high, it celebrates our local talent but so much more. Starting with gatherings of histories fine art photography gods in Aspen in 1951 to Minor White to vision shifting Robert Adams introducing New Topography. To Mark Klett’s Postmodernism Re photographic project (which was reviewed in the conceptual family of Sherry Levine and Richard Prince. Many lost super talents saved like Wes Kennedy, Chris James and others that never made print pages or history museum indexes. .

Everyone loves a great story. This book is full of them. The highlights for me are the inter connections and influences that weave us all together.

Rupert Jenkins THANK YOU

@coloradophotohistory

Come celebrate and thank Rupert…book signing ….
Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Tuesday April 21st, 4:30-6pm by @marksink

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6 months ago

Flash back Friday i was revisiting portraits past. Its interesting to see ones that hold over time. The wonderful magic of silver salts, beauty and light.

Kristen and I .. and Poppy, are hoping to brush off the lens and dance in the darkroom again this spring.

Pictured: Sonja, Kristen, Jeremiah, Kristen, Mehgan, John, Patrick and Kristine, Jillian.
#wetplatecollodion by @marksink

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7 months ago

Thank you to everyone who came to the Family Ties show at the Arvada Center. I was not on my game photographing all the wonderful people and friends that came to support the exhibition.. It’s really a wonderful show “continuing the creative legacy”. To see my longtime friend Emilio Lobato‘s great grandfather‘s Native American weavings next to his pieces was moving. To see the Hallmark work of Herbert, Bayer and Koko .. dear friend Ky,oko Ono, and her mother‘s writings. So many close friends, the Strawn’s paintings. The Aiello family. The Magyars .. many more. What a great community… the father and son sorely missed is Collin and Chuck Parson.. of course ethics of curators prevented it. My hats off to Collin and team were doing such a beautiful job such an honor so proud to stand there with my sister, daughter, my wife and my mother and father on the wall behind me.
@arvadacenter
#creativelegacy taken in Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities by @marksink

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9 months ago