EDUCATION
Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY – MFA Painting ; Art History Minor.
Miami University of Ohio – BFA Painting ; Theater Production Minor.
EMPLOYMENT
Current : Independent Fine Art & Design Consultant
Installation and display solutions ; Sales associate; Client liaison; Advertising and promotional arrangements; Art Fair logistics and management; Research and project development; Auction agent; Exhibition design ; Mount-making; Light rigging; Technical support; Photography; Picture mounting & framing; Art handling, packing and shipping.
2020-2022 : Manager of Installations and Operations – Colby College Museum of Art
Monitoring and maintenance oversight of galleries, study-storage and office and facilities monitoring and trouble-shooting; Artist and campus facilities liaison; Exhibition lighting; Art handling, transport, packing & shipping; Installation design solutions; Light rigging; Fabrication of display furniture; Technical and operational oversight; Service, supplies and materials sourcing, contract arrangements and vendor relations; Maintenance of exhibition & storage facilities; Picture mounting, fitting & framing; Paper conservation; Objects restoration; Photography & digital photo-editing.
2009-2020 : Senior Art Technician – Hudson River Museum
Exhibition design; Artist liaison; Art handling – transport, packing & shipping; Installation design solutions; Fabrication of display furniture; Technical support; Maintenance of exhibition & storage facilities; Picture mounting, fitting & framing; Paper conservation; Objects restoration; Photography & digital photo-editing
2007-2009 : Independent Fine Art & Design Consultant
Sales associate; Client liaison; Advertising and promotional arrangements; Research and project development; Auction agent; Exhibition design, planning & installation; Technical support; Photography; Picture mounting & framing; Art handling, packing and shipping.
Selected Client List : Frank & Barbara Pollack American Antiques & Art Chicago, IL; Amy Forman Design NYC; Katarina Rich-Perlow Fine Art NYC
2004-2007 : Operations Manager and Sales Associate – Lobel Modern, Inc.
Sales; Client Services; Installation; Furniture Restoration; Photography; Administrative support; Display; Installation; Shipping & Receiving; Web-site maintenance.
2002-2003 : Overseas Residency – Daglig Leder, Galleri K Oslo, Norway
Gallery representative; Sales associate; Client relations; Advertising and promotional arrangements; Research & project development; Exhibition planning, installation & technical support; Picture mounting & framing; Art handling – packing, transport, shipping and receiving; Inventory control.
1999-2002 : Operations Manager – Todd Hase Furniture, Inc.
Order processing, expediting and tracking; Import control; Vendor relations; Purchasing; Office management; Administrative support; Manufacturing oversight & quality control; Customer service.
1993-1999 : Independent Agent / Contractor / Exhibition Consultant
Representative; Sales associate; Client relations; Advertising and promotional arrangements; Research & project development; Auction house liaison; Exhibition planning and design; Display solutions and trouble-shooting; Installation; Picture mounting & framing; Art handling, packing and shipping.
Selected Client List : Frank & Barbara Pollack American Antiques & Art Chicago, IL; Amy Foreman Design NYC; Sanford L. Smith NYC; David Harvey Design NYC; Peter Fetterman Fine Art Photography Santa Monica, CA; Guggenheim Museum NYC; Brooklyn Museum; Acquavella Gallery NYC; National Arts Club NYC; Asian Society NYC.
1983-1991 : METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Senior Departmental Technician – Department of American Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Art handling, transport and installation; Exhibition & gallery maintenance; Management of storage and tracking systems; Photography; Field operative; Special projects.
Senior Departmental Technician – Costume Institute
Mannequin prep; Costume handling, transport and installation; Exhibition & gallery maintenance; Development and maintenance of storage and tracking systems; Photography; Field operative; Special project coordinator.
Preparator / Mat-maker / Fitter– Paper Conservation
Picture mounting, matting and framing; Installation.
Selected Exhibition & Collection Catalogue Acknowledgements
“Oh Panama : Jonas Lie Paints the Panama Canal” 2016 B.Bland; L.Vookles; K.Jensen Hudson River Museum; “Industrial Sublime” 2013 B.Bland; L.Vookles; K.Jensen Hudson River Museum; “Panoramic River : The Hudson & The Thames” 2012 B.Bland, HRM; “Alexander Calder : A Simplicity of Means” 2008 J.O’Hara O’Hara Gallery NYC; American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art : Volume II” 1990 N.Spassky MMA; “American Paradise : The World of the Hudson River School” 1987 K.Avery; O.R.Roque; J.K.Howat; D.B.Burke; C.Voorsanger MMA; “In Pursuit of Beauty : The American Aesthetic Movement” 1986 A.Freylinghausen Metropolitan Museum of Art;
Selected Fine Arts & Antiques Fairs
“The East Side Settlement House Winter Antiques Show” 1992-2016 – Installation and Sales Associate Frank & Barbara American Antiques & Art Chicago, IL
“NHADA New Hampshire Antique Dealers Association” 2005-2015 – Installation & Sales Associate Frank & Barbara Pollack American Antiques & Art Chicago, IL
“Works on Paper”; AIPAD Photography Show”; “Art Chicago” – Installation and Sales Associate Peter Fetterman Fine Art Photography Santa Monica, CA
“Art Forum Berlin” 1998; 2000; 2002 – Planning, Installation; Representative; Sales Associate Galleri K Oslo, Norway; “The “National Black Fine Arts Show” 1998-2001; 2004-2005 – Booth layout and installation Merton D. Simpson Gallery, NYC;
“Art Stockholm” 1999 – Representative and sales associate Galleri K Oslo, Norway.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PROJECTS, COMMISSIONS, COLLECTIONS
Katonah Museum of Art benefit auction, Katonah NY
Original design motifs for signature line of metal tiles, Emenee, Bronx NY
New York – Tokyo Ceramic Competition and Exhibition, Japan Foundation of New York W. 57th Street, NYC
Visions Festival, St. Mark’s Place NYC
V-Day benefit auction, Puck Building Lafayette Street NYC
Talbot Perkins Children’s Services Benefit Auction,E. Houston Street, NYC
Greenwich House Pottery Members Exhibition, Jones Street, NYC
Schema, Miami University Oxford, OH
Burning in Hell Franklin Furnace, Franklin Street, NYC
Cry China PS1 L.I.C.; Blum-Helman Gallery, NYC; Asian-American Arts Center, Bowery Street, NYC
Independientes El Bohio, East Side Community School, NYC
Studio Bill, W. 22nd Street, NYC
School of Visual Arts, W. 21st Street, NYC
Club USA, W. 44th Street, NYC
Project Dada, W. 16th Street, NYC
CBGB’s Gallery, Bowery Street, NYC
A.I.R. Invitational Exhibition, Crosby Street, NYC
Central Park West Salon, CPW, NYC
Dioramas MMA American Wing Period Room : Full-scale painted landscape backdrops installed behind windows of the Van Rensselaer Dining Room.
Private portrait commissions; Boston, NYC
Commissioned copyist, NYC
Art Institute of Chicago : Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection.
Miami University Department of Biology Heffner Museum of Natural History.
SKILLS
Fine art and furniture handling, installation, conservation and restoration; Picture mounting and framing; Painting; Metalworking; Ceramics; Carpentry; Print-making; Photography; Digital photo-editing; Exhibition design; Registration; Purchasing; Inventory control; Research; Sales; Operations management; Trouble-shooting and technical support.
OFFICE : Administration; Typing – 50wpm; Proof-reading; Editing; Filing; Book-keeping
COMPUTER SOFTWARE : ArtBase; TMS; Microsoft Office – Word, Excel; Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, Pagemaker.
LANGUAGES : Norwegian; French; Spanish