New York City Metropolitan Area
I have 29 years of experience doing the following: -Painting/Drawing/Sculpture/Video installation. -Art packing and unpacking. -Travel crate construction. -Art storage construction. -Wall construction/demolition. -Wall painting. -Canvas stretching/unstretching/rolling/folding. -Oil painting varnishing/conservation. -Matte cutting/frame fitting/hinging artwork -Mounting/3D object placement -Trucking/moving of any kind of fine art or antiquities. -Art transportation logistics and planning. -Residential art installation. -Art Installation lighting. -Commercial Gallery/Museum maintenance. -Client/Dealer sales meeting preparation. -Condition reporting of fine art. -Contemporary art fair installation and breakdown. -art handler crew management on large scale museum level installations.
Facilities Operations Responsibilities I am responsible for building management which includes overseeing HVAC, grounds maintenance, elevators, Internet/telephone systems, computer/IT infrastructure, fire/security systems and AV services. I supervise all contracted services associated with custodial staff and contracted preparators. I serve as point person for security system, access control, and fire systems. I respond to building system issues or failures. I diagnose causes and supervise activities required to restore proper operations to the buildings HVAC units. I monitor HVAC metrics to maintain proper humidity levels throughout the museum and ensure the safety of the artwork and comfort of visitors and staff. I plan and supervise building structure and service systems repair and upgrades. I maintain a library of building, maintenance and operations manuals, reference documents, and spare parts. I oversee offsite storage units. I maintain relationships and requisite compliance paperwork with FDNY department of buildings, North American elevators and other compliance agencies and I serve as main point of contact for periodic inspections. I coordinate with the deputy Director and Executive Director to determine whether emergency closures are necessary. Exhibition Planning and Management Responsibilities In partnership with the Registrar and Deputy Director I prepare budgets and estimates for exhibition related construction and special projects. I am responsible for the maintenance of the Galleries, fabrication of exhibition pedestals, fixtures and other structures for the display of artwork according to exhibition needs. I order and maintain exhibition supplies and equipment. I am responsible for the packing and unpacking of loaned art objects. I am responsible for the mounting and installation of artworks and safety supports, the installation of exhibition signage and vinyl. I am occasionally called on for local travel as courier for exhibition loans.
In addition to my Operations responsibilities I also manage and work along side our esteemed art handling crew to install artwork composed of a broad range of approaches to drawing in a museum setting, lighting, wall labelling, condition reporting, wall painting and repair, fine art packaging, etc. I have worked closely with artists like Leon Golub, Inka Essenhigh, Neo Rauch, Trisha Donnelly, John Zorn, KAWS, Gerhard Richter, chef Feran Adria, Rirkrit Tirivanija, Matt Mullican, Alexis Rockman, Mark Dion, Cecily Brown, Neo Rauch, Terry Winters, Sean Scully, David Hammons, Joan Jonas, Khalil Gibran, Eva Hesse, Gego, renaissance era artists working on copper plates, and registrar /preparator teams from a wide range of world class museums like The Guggenheim, MOMA, SFMOMA, The Met, The Whitney, etc.
In the 29 years that I have been an art handler in the NYC area I have done everything. I have installed work in the homes of every top collector and many celebrities in this area such as David Letterman, Steve Martin, The Mugrabis, Richard Gere, Betsy Johnson, and TV Producer Bob Boyett. I transported and installed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution under heavy security and have handled invaluable Van Goghs and Cezannes for Phillips Auction House. I assisted with the unframing of Van Gogh's Starry Night when I was being cleaned during MoMA's expansion project in 2019. I have lectured on shipping and packing techniques at The Drawing Center and The Fashion Institute of Technology. And an installation of ceramic work that I installed at The Minskoff Theater for the Broadway production of the Lion King is visible from the street in Times Square. I am accomplished and experienced in everything from installing massive grids of small paintings to building weird igloos made of fake boobs, to complicated multiple channel video pieces, to moving heavy sculptures, to delicate paper handling, to ancient Japanese Scrolls. I can also build and tear down walls, paint and repair gallery surfaces, stretch canvases, build crates, fix frames, cut mattes and soft pack anything imaginable. I'm experienced at dealing with the needs of finicky museum curators, nervous commercial art dealers, angsty registrars, detail obsessed conservators and neurotic contemporary artists of every ilk. I have worked for MoMA, The Jewish Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, Studio Museum in Harlem, National Academy Museum, Japan Society, China Institute, Asia Society, Wallach Gallery/Columbia U, Barbara Gladstone, Marianne Boesky, Metro Pictures, Sundaram Tagore, Michael Rosenfeld, Silverstein Gallery, Van Doren Waxter, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, The Park Avenue Armory, Dietl, Marlborough Galllery, and Dietl International at Art Basel Miami Beach and all the New York art fairs.
I have exhibited my work, most notably, at The Akron Ohio Museum of Art, Bravin Lee Programs, Mark Moore Gallery (via Beautiful Decay Magazine), Leslie Heller Workspace, PPOW Gallery, and at Takashi Murakami’s Gesai Miami Art Fair. My performance work has been featured at The Knitting Factory New York and The Judson Church. I have lectured at The Jersey City Museum, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The Drawing Center. My work has been written about in Art News, The Wall Street Journal, Time Out NY, The San Diego Union Tribune, The Akron Beacon Journal, NYArts Magazine, The New York Sun, and The Columbus Alive. And it has been purchased by The Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art (NNEMoca) in Burlington, VT, Jean Pigozzi, Steve Shane, Magdalena Sawon and Tamas Banovich of Postmasters Gallery, John Post Lee of Bravin Lee Programs, Amir Fallah of Beautiful Decay Magazine and a host of other private collectors and supportive friends. I have curated or co-curated shows at 450 Broadway Gallery, The Lodge Gallery and 14 BC Gallery in New York City. And I have taught drawing, painting, 2D and 3D design in the Visual Communications Department of The Katherine Gibbs School where I was a portfolio advisor, curator of student work for the school’s gallery, and a member of the curriculum development committee. I am formerly a contributing writer for NYArts Magazine, Germany’s Zoo Magazine and the now defunct crowndozen.com. Takashi Murakami, Mike Kelley, DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh, and Ian MacKaye of Fugazi are but a few of the artists I have had the privilege of working with in the world of wordcraft. My first book “Grotesque Banalities and Trite Repulsions” is available through Blurb.com.
Installation of artworks in all media for artists at all career levels, lighting, inventory/storage management, condition reporting, shipping/logistics, local transportation, client/dealer meeting preparations, art fair installation, framing, construction, painting, demolition, facilities maintenance, crating/packaging, canvas stretching. I worked closely with all the gallery artists at the time including Carolee Schneemann, Julie Heffernan, Bo Bartlett, Robin F. Williams, George Boorujy, Portia Munson, Katherine Kuharic, Hunter Reynolds, the estates of David Wojnarowicz and Martin Wong, Martha Wilson, Sarah Oppenheimer, Dinh Q. Le, etc.
Driver and art handler in local trucking department, onsite art packing and installation, pick-up and delivery of fine art to Crozier's elite fine art clientele including Mary Boone Gallery, Phillips Auction House, Sothebys, Christies, The Met, The Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum, The Mugrabi family, The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, etc..
Instructor of Drawing, Painting, 2D Design, 3D Design, curriculum development committee, curator of student work, portfolio preparation tutor.