Exit Paradise – Sherry Wiggins and Luis Branco, Kristen Hatgi-Sink, Mark Sink
Group Exhibition
March 18 - April 30, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 18, 5 - 9pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 15, 2- 4pm
Closing Reception: Sunday, April 30, 3 - 6pm
Salome at Sunset, Sherry Wiggins and Luis Branco, 2021
About the exhibition:
Exhibition at Seidel City Contemporary Art Gallery and Art Lab of the body based photographic works of Sherry Wiggins and Luis Branco, Kristen Hate-Sink and Mark Sink.
We’re not in paradise anymore. Arranged throughout Seidel City’s exhibition galleries, the exhibition is designed to suggest a narrative leading viewers through a sensorial experience of body and myth. This exhibition will also feature ‘Bon Bon,’ Kristen Hatgi Sink’s exploration into video installation, an extension of her photographic practice, and a collaborative project with Jillian FitzMaurice.
Opening reception on Saturday, March 18, artist talk Saturday April 15, 2 to 4pm, and closing reception on Sunday, April 30, from 3 to 6pm. Regular gallery hours Friday and Saturday 1 to 5pm, or by appointment Tuesday - Thursday.
Colorado conceptual artist Sherry Wiggins and Portuguese photographer Luís Filipe Branco have been working together on performative photographs with Wiggins as the subject since 2015. Wiggins’ practice addresses feminist relational processes and enactments—her work has taken multiple forms in installations, performances, photographs, sculpture and writing over the last three decades. Branco has worked as a freelance photographer, filmmaker and fine art photographer. Wiggins and Branco have shown their collaborative work in the U.S. and in Portugal in major exhibitions.
Kristen Hatgi Sink was born in 1984 in Denver, Colorado, where she currently lives and works. She earned a BFA at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work has been exhibited at venues across the country and abroad, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Japanese Paper Museum Ino, and Cohju Contemporary Art.
Mark Sink, a private art consultant, represents and curates local and international cutting-edge fine art photography. Mark is a co-founder of The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, founder of the Month of Photography Denver and The Big Picture street art projects and the Denver Collage Club. His personal fine art photography is shown and collected world wide. Currently Mark is specializing in Collodion Wet Plate photography and Collage. Kristen Hatgi Sink and Mark run studio photography services that include, portraits, product, architectural, and fashion.
