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Andy in Aspen Mark Sink tells his stories and relationship with Andy Warhol in Aspen. Images from the collection of Mark Sink 2022 A film by Chris Bagley Photos Mark Sink, use with permission by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. Aspen Times - In Aspen with Andy Warhol December 3rd, 2021 In Aspen with Andy Warhol Denver photographer Mark Sink discusses his local adventures with Andy Warhol Denver-based photographer Mark Sink was a frequent companion to Warhol on his Aspen visits and worked with Warhol in New York and at Interview magazine for about seven years after a charmed meeting during Warhol’s summer 1981 Colorado visit. In anticipation of Aspen’s winter of Warhol, I recently drove to Denver to meet Sink and talk about his Warhol days in Aspen and beyond. Seated in a nook of the home he bought shortly after Warhol’s 1987 death when Sink return to Colorado, with an afternoon breeze blowing in, he browsed a photo album of images from the Warhol years. “I’m in legacy mode,” he said. “I’d just like the proof that I was there.” Sink had unique insight into the mix of glam and genius that was Warhol’s ‘80s milieu, photographing Warhol at work, assisting him on projects and accompanying him on some legendary nights (he had his camera along for a dinner with Warhol, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at the Odeon in Manhattan during its 80s heyday). It all started four decades ago on the campus of Colorado State University in Fort Collins. When a friend told him Andy Warhol was coming to talk at Colorado State in late summer 1981, Sink knew he had to be there. Emboldened by his youth, Sink poked around campus hoping to find Warhol and, by chance, he did: the iconic visage, in sunglasses and wig, seated all alone in a classroom signing posters of his famed society portrait of Kimiko Powers, his handlers having run out to get coffee or food. Sink simply sat down and started helping Warhol sign them and they got to talking about Sink’s photography and life in Colorado. A sleekly built and muscular mountain kid, Sink tantalizingly pulled down his shorts to show off a gnarly road rash from a bike crash that ran down the length of his right side-body and hip. Warhol was intrigued. Warhol would soon invite Sink to New York to work in The Factory and shoot for Interview. But Sink’s memories include more modest evenings, like TV dinners and heated glazed donuts at Baby Jane Holzer’s place on Castle Creek Road or going out for Mexican at La Cocina. On New Year’s Day 1983, the group went snowmobiling in the Maroon Creek Valley, with Warhol and boyfriend Jon Gould at one point crashing off a cliff (there were no major injuries). Jon Gould and Andy Warhol on their snowmobile outing from T-Lazy-7 Ranch up the Maroon Creek Valley on Jan. 1, 1983. (Mark Sink) “I thought Jon was trying to kill me,” Warhol wrote in his diary. The incident is memorably documented in Sink’s photos of a giddily smiling Warhol digging out from the crash. (Sink is proud that so many of his photos show Warhol smiling and “unguarded.”) “I had zoomed past Andy and Jon dragging my hand in the snow,” Sink wrote of the snowmobile incident. “This caused snow to cover Jon’s goggles; he lost control crashing off a cliff with Andy falling off the back.” Warhol was often baffled by the mountain lifestyle Sink embodied. During one Aspen trip, Sink and a friend did an overnight ski mountaineering trip to East Maroon Pass. When they returned from the winter camping trip, Warhol insisted they were playing a joke on him. “Andy just wouldn’t believe it,” Sink recalled. “He insisted, ‘You weren’t sleeping out there. It’s like zero degrees out there.’” Warhol attempting to get back to the trail after a New Year’s Day snowmobile crash with boyfriend Jon Gould. (Mark Sink) “I didn’t want to be one of the hanger-on Factory kids,” Sink said. “If I could do it all again, I think I’d just go be a Factory kid,” he said. “I’d park there like, ‘Whatever you need, I’m here.’” The more time he spent in Warhol’s orbit, the more depth he found in the man and artist. “After a while I started to see the genius in Andy,” he said. “His brilliance in his art knowledge, in art history, the genius in the Factory and mass production and our new culture — so far ahead of our era of reality TV shows with Andy Warhol TV. Eventually, it came over me, like, ‘Holy shit, this guy is really so far ahead of the curve on everything.’” “I learned from Andy to believe in myself,” Sink said. “He championed me. I was just this Denver, Metro State kid. To have those doors opened up was so important, it showed me it was a big world out there.” https://www.aspentimes.com/news/in-as... [email protected] https://www.aspenartmuseum.org/warhol...