San Francisco Bay Area
• Curator, Exhibition Designer, Event Manager, Research Exhibitions include: 2013 A Long Moment: Narratives by David Molesky, a Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011 At the Edge of Experience: Psychedelic Rock Posters from the 1960s, Art Gallery at Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
• Interviews and Essays about art and artists Publications: 2102 “Pride,” (an interview with James Gobel), Beautiful Decay: Book 9 – The Seven Deadly Sins
• In conjunction with the Director, oversee strategic planning and operations for contemporary art gallery with a permanent roster of 35+ artists • Increase gallery sales through the development of new gallery clients and established collectors, as well as through building relationships with art consultants, advisors, and curators • Design, produce, and edit both online and print catalogs for gallery exhibitions, including historic research, using issuu.com and blurb.com (www.briangrossfineart.com/publications/index.html) • Produce and edit original written collateral for gallery communications, including press releases, and promotional materials • Directly coordinate with gallery artists on exhibition design, curatorial framework, communications and attendant programming • Prepare and review loan agreements for museum and institutional loans • Registration of all incoming/outgoing works of art at the gallery, including arranging shipment and packing of artworks for both domestic and international travel • Manage gallery staff, interns, and contractors to ensure successful daily and long-term gallery operations • Process incoming and outgoing payments, monitor and reconcile accounts receivable and payable, maintain artist accounts, and manage budgets • Represent gallery for off-site presentations and fairs, such as Pulse Miami Beach, and develop domestic and international curators and collectors • In conjunction with the Director, developed project space exhibition programming within the gallery to increase gallery sales and online presence
• Perform gallery administration tasks, including invoice processing, gallery communications, and record keeping • Manage day to day operations and appearance of the gallery sales floor • Manage and install all gallery exhibitions and client presentations in the gallery • Manage all online gallery listings and marketing on the gallery’s website, as well as external sales platforms such as Artsy and Artnet • Assist the Director in gallery sales and presentations to clients • Manage and perform all gallery shipping, registration, and inventory procedures.
• Write and edit regular reviews of art exhibitions and events in the San Francisco Bay Area; subjects included: Janet Delaney at The de Young Museum Masterpieces from The Scottish National Gallery 'Edge Effect' - The 2015 SFAI MFA Exhibition 2015 CCA Graduate MFA Exhibition Art Market San Francisco 2015 Startup Art Fair 2015 Paule Anglim In Memoriam J. John Priola @ Gallery Paule Anglim Pegan Brooke @ George Lawson Gallery Wanxin Zhang @ Catharine Clark Gallery Ruth Pastine @ Brian Gross Fine Art Dawoud Bey @ Rena Bransten Gallery Mike Henderson @ Haines Gallery Art Market 2014 Katy Grannan @ Fraenkel Gallery Peter Hujar @ Fraenkel Gallery Nan Goldin @ Fraenkel Gallery Jennah Ward @ George Lawson Gallery Nathaiel Price @ Nancy Toomey Gallery Paul Scheik @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery Chris McCaw @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery Nina Katchadourian@ Catharine Clark Gallery artMRKT 2013 ArtPadSF 2013 Christopher Taggart @ Eli Ridgway Gallery Colter Jacobson @ Gallery Paule Anglim Jay DeFeo @ di Rosa / SFMOMA The San Francisco Fillmore Group of Artists Cindy Sherman @ SFMOMA Roy De Forest @ Brian Gross Fine Art Oakland Art Murmur Lauren DiCioccio @ Jack Fischer Gallery artMRKT 2012 ArtPad 2012 Emma Harris-Sintamarian @ Jack Fischer Gallery Cassandra C. Jones @ Eli Ridgway Gallery John Chiara @ Haines Gallery Aubrey Lerner @ Eli Ridgway Gallery The SECA Award Retrospective @ SFMOMA David Molesky@ 12 Gallagher Lane Julie Heffernan @ Catharine Clark Gallery Ed Osborn @ Catharine Clark Gallery Michele Pred @ Jack Fischer Gallery Travis Collinson @ Eli Ridgway Gallery Chris Jehly @ Lower Haters Gallery Brian Barneclo @ 111 Minna Gallery Kurt Kemp @ Lower Haters Gallery
• Support the gallery Director in sales presentations to collectors and curators • Maintain artwork inventory and work with gallery artists to offer works in their studios • Pack, ship, and receive incoming and outgoing artworks • Greet all gallery visitors, present exhibitions, and answer questions about artwork art artists