Art Advisory
For fifteen years, I ran an independent art advisory practice managing operations, logistics, and inventory for private and corporate art collections. At its peak, I was working with 12 collections totaling over 3,000 objects across eight cities with a combined value of over fifty million dollars.
The work was part database management, part logistics coordination, part crisis prevention. I maintained inventory records, condition reports, and insurance documentation for every object, and managed the full lifecycle of each piece — acquisitions, appraisals, crating, domestic and international shipping and customs, warehousing, installation, storage, and conservation.
I also advised on the strategic side: negotiating purchases, preparing consignments and auction sales, and coordinating major institutional gifts and loans. Over time, I built and managed a network of galleries, artists, museums, conservators, auction houses, and handlers across the U.S., EU, and Asia.
The other half of the job was people. Every project required pulling together a different cross-functional team: curators, art handlers, auction houses, museum registrars, conservators, international shippers. I was the one coordinating all of them, usually across multiple time zones, to execute acquisitions, deaccessions, relocations, and large-scale installations on schedule and on budget.
Role
Art Advisor
CLIENTS
Important private and corporate art collections in New York, Florida, and Colorado.
DATES
2005 – 2020
