Doug and Mike Starn

(American, born 1961)

Doug and Mike Starn are collaborative American artists and identical twins. Working across photography, printmaking, and sculptural installations, their work poses questions about existence and its central primacy in our lives. Their photo-based mixed-media works include unconventional materials such as Plexiglas, wood, nails, and transparency film, allowing them to reinterpret images from art history, and incorporate them into their own aesthetic. “We're trying to show that photography isn't an image, it's a three-dimensional object,” they have explained. “It can have the same kind of growth and limitations or non-limitations as the other arts. It doesn't have to be confined to a craft, or simply the photographer's eye and then the skill of printing.” Their recent work has dealt mainly with notions of light and dark both as perceivable phenomena and psychological states, manifesting itself in photographs of moths and silhouettes of bare branches. They were born in 1961 in New Jersey and have been collaborating since the age of 13. The brothers went on to study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before moving to New York City in the 1980s. Today, the Starns' works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among others. The artists live and work in Beacon, NY.

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Doug and Mike Starn Artworks

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Doug and Mike Starn (447 results)
Blue Lisa, 1987–1987

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Blue Lisa, 1987–1987

Sale Date: December 5, 2000

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Green boats detail, 1988–1988

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Green boats detail, 1988–1988

Sale Date: November 15, 2000

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Convex bull jumper, 1989–1990

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Convex bull jumper, 1989–1990

Sale Date: November 15, 2000

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The rose, 1982–1988

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The rose, 1982–1988

Sale Date: June 13, 2000

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Multiple Mark Morrisroe, 1987–1987

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Multiple Mark Morrisroe, 1987–1987

Sale Date: May 19, 2000

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Anne Frank grave marker, 1989–1989

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Anne Frank grave marker, 1989–1989

Sale Date: May 8, 2000

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Mark Morris row

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Mark Morris row

Sale Date: April 11, 2000

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Sale Date: April 11, 2000

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Mark Morrisroe, 1986–1986

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Mark Morrisroe, 1986–1986

Sale Date: December 16, 1999

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Eye

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Eye

Sale Date: December 8, 1999

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Double Rembrandt with steps, 1987–1991

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Double Rembrandt with steps, 1987–1991

Sale Date: November 17, 1999

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Out of the sky and into the ground, 1992–1995

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Out of the sky and into the ground, 1992–1995

Sale Date: November 17, 1999

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Place St. Michel (detail), 1985–1985

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Place St. Michel (detail), 1985–1985

Sale Date: October 21, 1999

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Siamese twins (Yellow, black and white), 1982–1990

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Siamese twins (Yellow, black and white), 1982–1990

Sale Date: October 20, 1999

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Place St. Michel with lead & plexiglass

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Place St. Michel with lead & plexiglass

Sale Date: June 24, 1999

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Green boots detail, 1988–1988

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Green boots detail, 1988–1988

Sale Date: May 19, 1999

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Untitled (Large chair), 1985–1985

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Untitled (Large chair), 1985–1985

Sale Date: March 25, 1999

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The rose, 1991–1991

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The rose, 1991–1991

Sale Date: February 17, 1999

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Horses, 1986–1986

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Horses, 1986–1986

Sale Date: December 10, 1998

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Nipples, 1985–1987

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Nipples, 1985–1987

Sale Date: December 10, 1998

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"(Extreme) Convex siamese twins 2", 1990–1990

Sale Date: December 9, 1998

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Macabre still life, 1985–1985

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Macabre still life, 1985–1985

Sale Date: November 13, 1998

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Sans titre, 1990–1991

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Sans titre, 1990–1991

Sale Date: October 11, 1998

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Yellow square (Skull), 1986–1986

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Yellow square (Skull), 1986–1986

Sale Date: October 6, 1998

Auction Closed

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