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PRIVATE ART ADVISOR 1991-present
Represent international art collectors; work directly with artists and representative galleries
Facilitate exhibitions and coordinate private receptions with artists, curators, gallerists and collectors
SPECIAL PROJECTS 2008
Art Consultant, Art Dubai, One of three international Art Consultants to liaise and host VIPs and Corporate Sponsors for the duration of the fair. (www.artdubai.ae)
Guest Speaker, Center for Architecture, American Institute of Architecture (AIA) “Electric Fountain” at Rockefeller Center: A project by artists Tim Noble & Sue Webster from concept and fabrication, to installation. March 3. (http://iesny.org/)
CURATOR / GALLERY DIRECTOR 2000-2007
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Engaged Silvermine in a dialog with the international arts community
Presented over 300 exhibitions featuring internationally- known artists and regional emerging artists
Collaborated with organizations ranging from blue-chip galleries to local arts centers
Initiated scores of lectures, symposia, book signings and panel discussions to create opportunities for artists and the public to share ideas
Served as juror, panelist, speaker, advisor and curator to increase Silvermine’s exposure
Founded Director’s Choice exhibition series to present stimulation, educational exhibitions to compliment existing gallery program
Notable Director’s Choice Exhibitions
(*Sponsorship by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation)
2007
Listen to my Pictures: Ugandan Street Kids photographs,October 2007
Dan Budnik :Artist portraits 1950s-1960s,lecture Irving Sandler and Dan Budnik,September 2007
James Rosenquist: The Speed of Light and Beyond*
(Lecture by James Rosenquist)
Roz Chast: Theories of Everything & much, much more!*
(Lecture & book signing by New Yorker cartoonist featured on CBS Sunday morning news)
Intelligent Design Project*
(Featured D. Dominick Lombardi, Michael Rees, Bradley Rubenstein, Kiki Smith, Joan Wheeler, Michael Zansky. Exhibition traveled to several subsequent national and international venues)
2006
WaxWorks*
(Featured artists working in encaustic: Shiela Berger, Gail Gregg, Jasper Johns, Robert Gober, Nash Hyon, James Meyer, Robert Ryman)
Culture & DNA: Science Meets Art*
(Organized symposium with Westport Arts Center. Panel moderator: Jessica Hough, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Panelists: Myles Axton, editor, Nature Genetics Magazine, Stephen Henry Madoff, critic, Suzanne Anker, author/curator and Alexis Rockman artist. Nature Genetic Magazines purchased artwork and featured Silvermine artists on its cover)
Dan Budnik: Seeing David Smith*
(Featured photographs Dan Budnik took of the sculptor at work in his studio and a sculpture form the David Smith estate
2005
•BUILD: Louis Kahn/Architecture/Sculpture*
(Featured Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Louis Kahn, Raymond Meier, Sol LeWitt. Film screening of “My Architect” and Q & A with director Nathaniel Kahn. Lecture “Beyond Time and Style: The Architecture of Louis I. Kahn” by Carter Wiseman, Yale School of Architecture)
•Characters: Scene 1 and 2*
(Collaborated with Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Branch NJ. Featured R.Crumb, Philip Guston, Nina Levy, Tracey Moffat, Takashi Murakami, Yashitomo Nara, Michael Rees and Cindy Sherman. Full color catalog produced.)
•Edward Hopper and John Marin’s New York*
(Works on paper from the collection of Theodore Rogers with Hirschl & Adler Gallery. Featured Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Alfred Steiglitz and Paul Strand. Lecture and book signing, ”Hopper’s New York” by Avis Berman)
2004
•Icons of Twentieth Century Photography, Part 2*
(Featured Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier –Bresson, Eisenstaedt, Leipzig, Charles Moore, Ruth Orkin, August Sander, Stieglitz, and Weegee
•Margaret Bourke–White
(Featured selected photographs circa 1930’s from the collection of John Vassos)
•Inside Out -Domestic Landscapes
(In collaboration with D.C. Moore Gallery, NYC (Janet Fish, Paul Wonner), Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC (Eric Fischl), and Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco (Wayne Thiebaud) and guild artists Christy Gallagher, Heidi Palmer, Jane Sutherland, Justin Wiest)
•Consciousness and Process: The Digital in Sculpture, Photography, Animation: Michael Rees and Michael Somoroff*
(In collaboration with Bitforms Gallery, NYC. Guest speakers: Steven Sacks, director of Bitforms Gallery and artists Michael Rees and Michael Somoroff)
2003
•Gemini GEL: Celebrating 38 Years of Art and Collaboration* (In collaboration with Joni Moisant Weyl, NYC. Featured Phillip Guston, Ann Hamilton, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra)
•Roz Chast: True Confessions*
(Pen and ink drawings from The New Yorker cartoonist. Guest Speaker: Roz Chast)
•Alan Ginsberg Snapshots: Poetic Portraits
(In collaboration with Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC)
2002
•Gabor Peterdi: A Retrospective of Paintings*
(Symposium in Honorarium with Michael Mazur, Bernard Chaet, Joan Peterdi and Ann Chernow)
•Perterdi in Context: Picasso to Pollock
(Paintings, prints, and small works on paper. Catalog produced)
•Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Two Works in Progress*
(Featured The Gates (Project for Central Park, New York City) and Over the River (Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado). Lecture & book signing by Christo and Jeanne-Claude)
•Paul Cadmus Retrospective
(In collaboration with DC Moore Gallery, NYC. Panel discussion: Jon Anderson, Ed Deluca and Philip Eliasoph)
2001
•Icons of Twentieth Century Photography* (In collaboration with Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC. Featured Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, Alfred Steiglitz)
•Michael Mazur: Dante’s Inferno
(Recent etchings with lecture by Michael Mazur)
•Photo Chrome
(Featured Vanessa Beecroft, Gregory Crewdsom, Todd Hido, David Levinthal, Tracy Moffatt, Bill Owens, Kiki Smith, William Wegman. Guest speaker: Paul Morris)
2000
•From Rembrandt to Ryman
(Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints. In collaboration with Pace/Wildenstein, NYC. Featured Rembrandt, Brueghel, Goya, Chagall, Picasso. Guest speakers: Sasha Schwarz, Carlo Bello)
•‘Framed’ Gianfranco Gorgoni ‘Beyond the Canvas’
(Photographs of Artists of the 70’s and 80’s. Featured Basquiat, Beuys, Christo, de Kooning, Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Warhol. Guest Speaker: Gianfranco Gorgoni)
•A Little of Chelsea comes to Connecticut
(In collaboration with Paul Morris, Matthew Marks, Pace, Gagosian, Luhring Augustine. Guest speaker: Paul Morris)
OFFSITE CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2005
•Original Repetition, G.E. World headquarters, Fairfield, CT
2004
•Familiar Ground/Landscape, G.E. World Headquarters, Fairfield, CT
•Ginsberg Snapshots exhibition & lecture, Westport Library, Westport, CT
2002
•David Dunlop: American Landscape and Marine Paintings, Susan Powell Fine Art and Hudson United Bank
•Plein Air Fundraiser for the preservation of Mather Meadows, Darien Land Trust, CT
•Joe Fucigna: The Double-Jack sculptural installation at Rockefeller Center for Cingular Wireless, NYC
•David Burt at Norden Park, CT
2001
•5 Silvermine Artists at the Lock Building, South Norwalk, CT
•Framed: Photographic Portraits of Artists from the 70’s and 80’s at HBO Headquarters NYC
ARTS OUTREACH
2000-present Juror/Valuation Panel
● Deutscher-Menzies Auction House, Australia: NY Expert, International Art, 2000-present
• Innovation Design Awards: Juror, Connecticut Cottages & Gardens Magazine, CT, 2007
• Radius Emerging Artist Workshop: Presenter (hosted by The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield Guild of Artists & Westport Arts Center, CT), 2007
• Darien Arts Council: Juror, 2007
• Greenwich Arts Council: Juror, 2007
• Armonk Art Show: Juror, 2007
• Mamaroneck Artists Guild: Juror, 2007
• 41st Annual Westport Craft Show: Juror, 2007
• Connecticut Commission of the Arts, CT, 2006 & 2007
• Tremaine Art Foundation: three person Jury of Contemporary curators, 2006
• Mystic Arts Center: Juror, Hip to be Square, 2006
• Westchester Craft Show: Juror, 2002 & 2005
• Center for Contemporary Printmaking: Juror, 2005
• Rowayton Art Center: Juror, 2004
• SoNo Arts Festival, South Norwalk, CT
• Rowayton Arts Center, Norwalk, CT
• Westchester Craft Show, Westchester, NY
• Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
• Katonah Museum, Arts Panel, Katonah, NY
2002 Moderator, ”An Insiders Insight to the Art World,” Fairfield University
• A unique peek into New York City’s major “art world” players
• Five on-campus lecture seminars included: Thomas Krens, Director Guggenheim Museums, worldwide; Knight Landesman, Executive Publisher, ARTFORUM; Christopher Eykyn, Director, Impressionism & Modern Art, Christies Auction House; Paul Morris, Pioneer Chelsea Art Gallery Owner
1998-2001 Art Education After-School Program Director, Weston Public Schools, CT
• Developed and implemented hands-on after school enrichment program “Portrait of an Artist,” an in-depth study of artists’ lives, technique and work
• Developed a two week summer workshop: 20th Century Art, Music and Dance
CORPORATE MARKETING & MANAGEMENT
1988-1991 National Brand Manager, Pepperidge Farm Inc., Division of Campbell Soup Co., Rolls
• Managed 35 varieties of rolls with over $62 million in sales, nationally
• Successfully developed and introduced Country Style Dinner Rolls, Soft Hoagie Rolls and Potato Dinner Rolls into regional markets
1987-1988 National Brand Manager, Pepperidge Farm Inc., Division of Campbell Soup Co., Stuffing/Croutons
• Managed dry products with over $58 million in sales, both market leaders in their categories. (Stuffing 60% share, croutons 40% share)
• Increased crouton volume 17.5%
• Increased stuffing volume 4.1% in a mature category
1986-1987 Regional Sales Account Manager, Pepperidge Farm Inc., Division of Campbell Soup Co.,
• Supervised and positioned bakery products on-site at Stop & Shop, Star Market and other New England supermarket chains
1981-1986 Marketing Director, Klissers Farmhouse Bakeries, Auckland, New Zealand
• Director of Sales, Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations, Research, Development and Distribution
• Implemented franchising and licensing projects for “Vogel’s” Bread in Holland, Hong Kong and Singapore
HONORS/AWARDS
2007
•Recipient of a $15,000 Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Grant
•Silvermine Guild Galleries voted Best Gallery, Best of the Gold Coast, Moffly Publications
2006
•Recipient of a $10,000 Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Grant
•Silvermine Guild Galleries voted Best Gallery, Best of the Gold Coast, Moffly Publications
2005
•Silvermine Guild Galleries voted Best Gallery, Fairfield County Weekly
•Silvermine Guild Galleries voted Best Gallery, Best of the Gold Coast, Moffly Publications
2004
•Recipient of a $15,000 Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Grant
2003
•Recipient of a $5,000 Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Grant
2000
•Recipient of a $20,000 Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Grant
1986
•Received Pepperidge Farm Sales Achievement Award
1979
• University of Auckland Sportwoman of the Year
1973-1976
•New Zealand Ski Team
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2006-present Contibuting Editor, Connecticut Cottages & Gardens, CT
2002-2003 Board Member, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
EDUCATION
1983-1985 University of Auckland, MBA program
1976-1979 University of Auckland, BA Art History, BA English
LANGUAGES
English, Dutch, German
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