Art Accomplices: Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel

Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel first met as MFA students at the San Francisco Art Institute. Over the next thirty years, their artistic partnership produced an impressive body of work as well as a lifelong friendship. Explore their respective careers and collaborative conceptual projects, which are alternately ironic, subversive, wry, surrealistic, and poignant.
A baseball card featuring a Caucasian man wearing glasses pitching a ball, Mike Mandel
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Mike Mandel
Untitled, 1977, printed 2013, from the series Evidence
Time
The Influence and Legacy of Larry Sultan
Billboar reading "ties" with intersecting men's ties emanating from the neck of a mostly faceless figure
Open Space
Receipt of Delivery: Mike Mandel + Larry Sultan’s Ties
Artwork image, Larry Sultan, Meander Corte Madera
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Larry Sultan
A white space with an O outlined in black
Open Space
Larry Sultan, 1946 – 2009
Photographer Mike Mandel in his studio
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How Mike Mandel created new meaning from old photographs
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75 Reasons to Live: Catherine Wagner on Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan’s Untitled, from the installation Evidence