SERVICES

Advisory services are available to help clients navigate the art market, evaluate artworks, and acquire pieces with enduring value. I also provide a free consultation for prospective clients to discuss their fine art needs and goals. 

1.  Market Intelligence: I investigate provenance, conduct appraisals, provide valuations, and help clients weigh the benefits and risks of acquisitions and sales. I also scout works and prepare dossiers on established, undervalued, and emerging artists.

2.  Acquisitions, Sales + Commissions: I source and help clients acquire, sell, and commission modern and contemporary art and design pieces. This includes handling post-purchase/sale details, such as the framing, packing, transport, insurance, and installation of artworks. Brokered services that do not lead to a transaction are subject to the advisory’s “no sales, no fee” policy.

3.  Strategic Planning: I help individuals and organizations define their collection’s purpose, set goals, and develop plans for managing and enhancing the value of their artworks over the long-term.

Protecting the physical condition of artworks requires systematic practices and procedures that are focused on maximizing each object’s unique value and impact. I provide services that help art enthusiasts and organizations optimize the care, documentation, movement, presentation, and safety of their fine art holdings.

1.  Collection Records: I inventory artworks and document their condition. (If desired, I can also oversee the set up of a collection database and coordinate the production of collection photography.)

2.  Object Loans: I carefully review and manage art loans to museums and other institutions, weighing risks and rewards such as an object’s possible damage or loss against its potential increase in value and prestige, among other things.

3.  Insurance: I identify coverage needs for artworks and insurer options to protect clients against financial losses due to damage, destruction, theft, and fraud.

4.  Conservation Referral + Storage: I locate and vet storage options, oversee conservation issues, and formulate plans for the long-term care and security of artworks.

5.  Art Handling + Logistics: Working closely with professional art shippers and installers, I coordinate time consuming transportation logistics and art installation details.

6.  Rights + Reproduction: I handle licensing, rights, and reproduction matters, for artists, collectors, and businesses.

7.  Archival + Volume Framing: Working with clients to identify the right framer for the job, I handle bespoke and volume framing.

8.  Estate Services: I help collectors plan for the future disposition of their artworks by documenting and tracking their value, recording their location and condition, planning for their eventual dispersal, and chronicling their history and significance.

I draw on my background as an artist, art historian, museum director, curator, and collection researcher to help clients make wise choices and build coherent art collections that resonate with meaning and align with their values.

1.  Collection Development: Using their interests, preferences, motivations, tastes, budgets, and goals as key data points, I help clients develop conceptual frameworks for building impactful, cohesive collections that align with their long-term collection goals, whether its for personal or commercial purposes.

2.  Collection Administration: I provide the curatorial oversight clients need to manage their artworks wisely and enhance their value over the long term.

3.  Exhibition Design:  Collaborating with clients, designers, preparators, and other professionals, I identify suitable artworks and curate impactful exhibits from concept through to the full-scale exhibitions.

4.  Installation Design: I help corporate, civic, government, and private clients find the balance between form, function, aesthetics, and meaning in the installation of artworks in public and private spaces. (This includes site evaluations, floor plan analysis, concept development, and budget formulation.)

5.  Exhibition Materials: I write didactic texts and catalogs essays. I also create images, signage, audio, video, and web content that enhance the viewer’s experience and appreciation of artworks in various settings.

Relationships and education are central to the art advising business. I arrange enrichment opportunities that help both novice and experienced collectors focus their interests, refine their tastes, and cultivate critical art world relationships.

1.  ARTalk: Clients and organizations can request a curated lecture, tour, or discussion focused on a topic of their choosing. 

2.  ARTravel: I arrange customized art excursions for clients and organizations interested in exploring museums, galleries, art sites, and other art-related venues across the United States and abroad.

3.  Outreach: I connects clients who have philanthropic and outreach interests with mission-driven organizations and groups that align with their interests.

4.  Enrichment: In order to provide clients with timely advice about valuations, acquisitions and sales, I survey auction results, art fairs, galleries, and other outlets for up-to-date market intelligence.

5.  Guidance: I act as a bridge to artists and the art world, introducing clients to art professionals and artists whose art aligns with their taste, intellectual, and aesthetic preferences.