Working towards a brighter future...

I put my heart and soul into everything I do, whether its seeking out a promising emerging artist and giving them their first major show, writing provocative text, designing eye catching marketing materials or websites, or closing a big sale.

My five years experience in the art world has fine-tuned my sales, management and organization skills. Before my professional experience within the art world, I was the art director for the largest business brokerage in New York State, and have been an integral figure in many sales, design, and IT departments. I became interested in joining the professional art world after a semester long internship at the Staller Center Gallery when earning my bachelor's degree in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University. After working in the graphic design and IT fields, and worked my way up to become the art director at the largest business brokerage in New York State. Also during this time, I developed my IT and sales skills to be a skilled computer technician and high volume salesman. At Walter Wickiser Gallery, which specializes in Contemporary Asian art and promotes artist Ralph L. Wickiser, I designed everything from monthly invitation cards to a new dynamic website, assisted with day to day business and financial operations, co-curated a museum retrospective exhibition and maintained the catalog raisonné and painting/photo/press archives of Ralph L. Wickiser, maintained a network of Mac OSX computers, and also assisted with curating, art handling, photography, writing, shipping, and overseeing the galleries printing business.

Currently, I am curator and independent agent working with three contemporary galleries. I also act as the director and senior curator at Icosahedron Gallery; curating, handling all sales leads and managing a team of 6 staff members and interns. I have expanded my services into guest curating, artist management, consulting, and providing museum placement. I want to establish as many connections as possible in both the fine and commercial arts worlds, as it will benefit every artist that I currently represent. While only working at Icosahedron Gallery for three short years, I have invigorated their roster of artists, specialty exhibitions, marketing materials, and most importantly sales. I have also brought Judy Chicago to the gallery during Women's History month, curated a Joseph Beuys/David Kastner exhibition last Summer, and have produced an highly successful Shepard Fairy event co-sponsored by the CityKids Foundation.

I'm experienced in everything within the gallery world, including curation, client and artist management, writing essays and press releases, artist representation, web and print design, budgeting, bookkeeping and installation. My professional past and employment history, reveals a commitment to the arts, with a supporting knowledge of skills learned through my vast background in sales, customer service and technical support.

Being a successful gallerist leads to many great milestones. At my current contemporary art gallery, I have:

Turned the gallery into a highly profitable business venture

Increased sales by more than 50% in two and a half years, during an economic recession

Expanded our collector base by 200%

Significantly increased repeat business by building rapport with existing clients

Helped expand the business from a 1,500 sq/ft downtown location into a 3,000 sq/ft ground floor gallery in Chelsea

Revamped the gallery’s marketing campaign and reduced existing expenses

Increased the gallery's mailing list by 400%

As a curator, I have produced a wide range of exhibitions, including numerous genres and price points. The following are a few of the most critically acclaimed and best selling:

Judy Chicago “Velvet Waltz” – a survey exhibition including some of her early Feminist works from 1972, and selections from each project up to and including her “In Glass” series

Joseph Beuys “Distraction” – retrospective including a piece from his teacher Ewald Matare, and all the way up to works created a year before his death

Shepard Fairey – Charity event and silent auction co-sponsored by the CityKids Foundation

Co-curated a solo exhibition of American painter Ralph Wickiser at the Susquehanna Museum in Selinsgrove, PA

Progress on my new body of work is slow but steady. The Illustrator series combines the frames from BK Series with the use of only solid colors (influenced heavily by Mondrian) with a pseudo-abstract figuration, similar in technique to Lichtenstein and style to Picasso.