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Curriculum Vitae


Qualification Summary

Professional gallerist offering six years of gallery experience.  Excellent sales, curating, marketing, and administrative skills, combined with strong performance in management, productivity improvement, and customer service experience.  Demonstrate high level of professionalism and comfortable in all areas of gallery operations.

- Knowledgeable                       - Experienced                           - Solution oriented
- Dependable                            - Motivated                               - Hardworking

Areas Of Expertise

Curating, Fine Art Sales, Art Consultations, PR, Social Networking, Management, Art Handling and Installation, Writing, Bookkeeping, Archiving, Graphic Design, Website Design and Maintenance, Photo Editing, Technical Support, Networking, Computer Repair, Painting, Lithography, Photography, Ceramics, Foundry Work, Framing and Matting, Art Restoration

Professional Experience

Proprietor - Robert Berry, Inc, New York, NY - 2005 – Present  

Provided Services

  • Exhibition curating
  • Consulting
  • Artist management and representation
  • Artist development
  • Exhibition placement services
  • Graphic design
  • IT services

Director - Gallerie Icosahedron, Inc., New York, NY - 2008 – 2011  

Responsibilities

  • Turning the gallery into a highly profitable business venture
  • Developing an international database of collectors and clients
  • Fiscal responsibility, including meeting monthly sales goals and managing marketing and payroll budgets
  • Expanding marketing and PR campaigns, including social media, print ads, online promotions and press outreach.
  • Managing a team of 6 staff members and interns
  • Selecting artists for exhibition and representation, that push the boundaries of contemporary art
  • Spearheading numerous projects, including an artist networking site and an online sales site
  • Developing my curatorial style, selecting artwork that inspires my patrons and has a high commercial appeal
  • Responsible for cataloguing and maintaining acquisitions
  • Overseeing all installations from beginning to end
  • Bookkeeping
  • Technical support

Highlights and Accomplishments

  • Increased sales by more than 50% in two and a half years, during an economic recession
  • Increased collector base by 200%
  • Significantly increased repeat business by building rapport with existing clients
  • Increased the gallery’s mailing list by 400%
  • Reduced advertising expenses by forming solid relationships with publishers and advertisement representatives
  • Streamlined the gallery’s printing business, cutting expenses by 25%, which allowed us to start publishing coffee table books
  • Helped expand the business from a 1,500 sq/ft downtown location into a 3,000 sq/ft ground floor gallery in Chelsea
  • 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
  • Shepard Fairey – Charity event and silent auction

Curator - DLC Fine Art, New York, NY - 2009 – 2010  

Responsibilities

  • Developing an international database of collectors and clients
  • Selecting artists for exhibition and representation
  • Acquring artwork for the secondary market
  • Assisting with developing the curatorial vision of the gallery
  • Finding artwork that inspires the patrons and has a high commercial appeal
  • Responsible for cataloguing and maintaining acquisitions
  • Overseeing all installations from beginning to end

    • Highlights and Accomplishments

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

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    Gallery Assistant/Archivist - Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY - 2006 – 2008   

    Responsibilities

    • Curating monthly solo and collective exhibitions
    • Overseeing exhibition installation
    • Performed daily administrative and bookkeeping duties
    • Developing new artists to increase their sales potential
    • Redesigning and maintaining the gallery’s high volume website
    • Designing all of the promotional materials including catalogs, postcards, and ARTnews advertisements
    • Writing compelling press releases and catalogue essays
    • Archived the paintings, digital media, slides and photography of artist Ralph L. Wickiser
    • Researched previous exhibitions and collectors, and updated Ralph L. Wickiser’s catalog raisonné
    • Providing technical support for a network of Apple computers

      Highlights and Accomplishments

    • Increased sales revenue by 25%
    • Expanded marketing and PR outreach
    • Reduced operating and printing expenditure
    • Designed four retrospective books, the first of which is available on Amazon.com
    • Co-curated a Ralph L. Wickiser solo exhibition at the Susquehanna Museum in Selinsgrove, PA

    Gallery Assistant - Staller Center For The Arts, Stony Brook, NY - 2002

    • Was educated in the art of gallery management

    • Assisted with curating, art handling, installation and advertising

     

    Related Experience

    - University and Artist Run Galleries                     - Art Director                                     - IT and Data Analyst            

    - Customer Service Representative                         - Assistant Manager                          - Sale Director                       

    Education

     

    Stony Brook University – Stony Brook, NY - 2003

    Bachelor of Arts, Art History and Criticism, with a Minor in Fine Art

     

    Computer Software

    Mac/PC, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, Art Base, Great Plains, Quicken, QuickBooks, iWork, iLife

    		  
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