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Ok ... there is a rumor that i am having a retrospective during the Month of Photography at RedLine Contemporary Art Center in March... Yes, the rumor is true. I saw a banner on the side of RedLine yesterday with my name on it..with Andy Warhol Mt Man.. it sent a bolt of fright through me and my blood pressure up .. https://denvermop.org/.../mark-sink-retrospective-exhibit/
I still haven't comprehended what an amazing gift and opportunity this is from one of the greatest most respected and most loved art centers anywhere. My superheroes. Louise and team thank you... this is about as big as it gets..deep breath...Just getting the title and subtitle out gave me hives and my father's hand tremors. Thanks to all you here and your support i am well-practiced to tell the story in the real world. I am ready..got the title and subtitle and framer Ron at Redshift picked up the work. Poppy and Kristen are prepared for crazy man month.
Also i have 12 other Month of Photography Denver and curation projects also, The Denver Collage Club at Alto Gallery, Sherry , Kristen and me in the way back at Siedel City, D'Art Gallery Conceptual show , Pace Center show, The BIG PICTURE Colorado..and the Big Picture pasting party ( March 26th ) Sold out portfolio review weekend, RedLine walk and talks, Alto Gallery collage workshop ..Daddy day with P.... wow freaks me out just typing that.
It's all on the MoP calendar with a bevy of other great great exhibitions and events.. Samantha Johnston and team are doing a GREAT job ... https://denvermop.org/event-calendar/
RedLine ...
I am good at showing other people and supporting the art community but not exhibiting myself.
A big part of this show narrative is about the people and crazy family history that formed my life...The narrative starting with a painting by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, a master painter and inventor who also took one of the first photographs in America and gave us instant communication..the telegraph." what has god wrought ". Poppy and i communicate in Morse code these days. We will have his telegraph machine there.
I will be stair-stepping through brief art photo history through the lens of my fine art photographer great grandpa,...Wild man James L. Breese who presented in his Carbon Studio the first moving picture in America Miss Jerry" by Alexander Black His studio was a radical critical modernist thinkers, LGBTQ parties, woman artists, modern dancers and writers like Harriet Beecher Stowe and radical scientists like friends like Nicola Tesla..and Edison, portraits of all of them at his salons and late-night parties....mind you this is the 1890s. He co-founded the first gathering of fine art photographers in NYC the Camera Club of NY which influenced my Salons and progressive art club gatherings in Denver.
And adventure driven bon vivant grandpa, James Breese Jr. ( who Aunt Pussy threw out of the family ) He helped produced America's first sports car, among many automobile firsts ..he was the engineer on the first flight across the Atlantic in 1919 in the NC4.( 8 years before Lindberg) His sister artist-designer, Frances Miller, my current obsession with, is a hero of heroes, i am crazy for her, she was radically forward and a long line of design firsts also..and she raced fast cars, (1907 ) she married a beautiful black man and immersed in his Haitian culture, i should mention she friends with Andy Warhol where he filmed scenes of "the Loves of Ondine" at her open first modernist home on the Bridge Hampton beach. She also was a horror story to the ladies of NY society. And like her bother James was cast out.
This leads to me, my parent's meeting in Santa Fe NM. Modernists, this is brief story of art and lost architecture, work with roommate and close friend IM Pei and forgotten stories of Denver Art Museum founding of the contemporary art dept beginnings. AFCA ..and i added a few siblings' art samples cause i love them so much.
Lots of books and catalogs and ephemera of near-forgotten decades of Denver art and culture will be scattered around in this story ..much is hoping for a home .. Denver needs an art storage purgatory/ archive holding ground of decades of our great art history that has no place to go now.... Please plant that seed you all. Its my retirement mission.
The center of the exhibition is my community. Denver's alternative art history , early Denvers 70s -80s music scene, photo and handbills...and bringing NYC artists to Denver at the Lynne Ida Gallery, NYC in the 1980s gets its own gallery room, also to tell a story about the Tin Room where i made a large body of work with great artists around like Jean Michel Basquiat and Rene Ricard, Robert Hawkins ..and others. 
And topping things off is the more current personal work and community projects like helping start MCA Denver with Marina Graves a transgender walking performance piece... and RedLine and Month of Photography and Big Picture ..i have a space devoted to a lost community treasure Rinoceropulis Gallery and artist Collin Ward....and my deep love and loss for Robin Rule.
I will present tons of my different body's work that will be inner woven in the timelines above.. some has not seen the light of day for decades. Some fun surprises ..I think i might park my 1955 TR2 car there..its art its connects everything... Its going to be a big messy bag of personal inner connections of queer, trouble, chance, luck, and amazing talent and love that has surrounded me all my blessed life. I look forward to celebrating that... hope to see you there.
See that just typed straight out live ...excuse errors and babbling. thank you for being here with me.
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