Untitled - Omen Magazine

154 Pages·2012·12.89 MB·English

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Omen Magazine

is a showcase for multi-medium International
creativity. It is a visual online magazine that is
a homage to Art and Fashion that may not be
necessarily mainstream. It will be a hybrid of
talent from up and coming to famous.The focus
is on the image, not the buzz.
Omen wants to explore and expose to the
cyber world, all the amazing work that is off
the commercial radar.
www.theomenmag.com
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Photo : Thomas Woodruff
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Mário Correia - Graphic editor
Marcus Leatherdale - Art Director / Art Editor
Pedro Matos - Photo editor
Jorge Serio - Fashion editor
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Art Correspondents:
Paul Bridgewater – NYC
Amabel Barraclough – London
Martin Belk – Paris / Glasgow
Dan Bazuin – Toronto
Patric Lehman – Toronto
Jennifer Leskiw –Antwerp
Anne McDonald – Prague
Muga Miyahara –Tokyo
Elizabeth Rogers – New Delhi
Hector Ramsay - Florence
Andrea Splisgar – Berlin
Jorge Soccaras – Barcelona / NYC
Arturo Toulanov - NYC
Sheba Legend – NYC
Jose Maria Bustos - Singapore
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Fashion Correspondents:
Michael Schmidt – Los Angeles
Rebecca Weinberg – NYC
Zuleika Ponsen - Paris
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Literary Correspondent:
Christina Oxenberg
Mark Sink- Denver
www.gallerysink.com
Born in 1958, Sink’s photographic destiny was partly shaped by his family history. From a long
family line of artists, Sink’s great-great-uncle was Samuel Finley Breese Morse, who is known
as America’s “Father of Photography” and introduced the daguerreotype to this country in
the 1850s. Sink’s great-grandfather was James L. Breese, a famous photographer who made
waves in turn of the century New York. His mother is Denver painter Ann White and Sink’s
father is a well known Denver architect.
Sink says when he received his first Diana camera as a child, his future was clear. After art
school, the 1980s found Sink in the heady boom days of the New York art scene, experimenting
with plastic toy cameras, working professionally as both a commercial and fine art photographer,
and hanging out in Andy Warhol’s famous Factory scene. In the early 1990s, Sink returned to
his hometown of Denver, where he worked with early digital cameras and created a series
of  still life photographs inspired by Old Master Dutch paintings.
The latter half of the decade brought Sink into museum administration, as he was co-founder
of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and formed his own community based art center,
Gallery Sink. Inspired by the pictorialist traditions of his great grandfather, Sink made traditional
landscapes and cyanotypes, as well as camera-less photograms. Photograms are made by
laying objects directly on photographic paper and exposing it to sunlight.
With the closing of Gallery Sink, the artist returned to making photography full time in the
new century. Sink embarked on a new series with his partner, Kristen Hatgi, using a 150 year
old lens to create dreamy collodion wet plates with the technology of the 1860s. All of these
chapters will be on view in the Gallery with techniques ranging from photo silkscreen, Polaroid’s,
cyanotypes, silver prints, gravure, collodion wet plate and digital.
Mark Sink Photographs with diverse techniques, eras and experiments come together under
Sink’s unifying vision of beauty. “I am a gushy romantic,” Sink says. “The theme of this survey
is to show my obsession and passion for capturing beauty.”
Sink’s work is in numerous museum collections as well as gallery solo and group shows in the
US, South America and Europe. He is currently represented by G. Ray Hawkins in California,
Robin Rice in New York, and Rule Gallery in Denver.