-
Art Director
Christie's Auction House
New York, NY
2007 - 2021 (14 years)
Responsible for concept and creative design for a wide variety of high-profile sales campaigns and publications. Produced advertising and promotional materials with an emphasis on special print publications for prominent, high-value sales. Managed projects from initial creative phase through final product in collaboration with art specialists, curators, writers, exhibit designers, photographers, and colleagues in marketing, image editing, print and production departments.
Design project accomplishments: Promotional materials for Richard Neutra’s 1946 modernist masterpiece Farnsworth House in Palm Springs, promotional book for Andy Warhol’s powerful four panel painting Colored Race Riot, singer Andy Williams sale catalog and promotional materials, The Rockefeller Collection photo shoots and catalogs, promotional book for David Hockney’s seminal, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) and 20 seasons designing the 300 page plus Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale catalogues which achieved the highest grossing auction company wide each season.
-
Art Director
New York, NY
1998 - 2010 (12 years)
Design and produce publications, brochures, catalogs, books and advertising for numerous clients including: LACMA, Christie’s Auction House, Christie’s Fine Art Storage Service, Lyndhurst Mansion, Courage & Joy Asian Art Advisory, Artvest Partners, The Center for Reproductive Rights, American Museum of Natural History, Tumi, The New York Times, Food & Wine magazine and The New Yorker magazine.
-
Art Director
LaPlaca Cohen Advertising
New York, NY
1996 - 1998 (2 years)
Advertising & promotional design. Clients included: the American Museum of Natural History, Chicago Art Institute, Cleveland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Philip Morris philanthropic division.
-
Senior Designer
Sotheby's Auction Hause
New York, NY
1992 - 1996 (4 years)
Print advertising & promotion including catalogs, books, annual reports, client proposals, exhibit design and signage.
-
Designer
Page Arbitrio and Resen
New York, NY
1990 - 1992 (2 years)
Advertising & promotional design including annual reports, brochures, magazines, and Illustration. Clients included: IBM, Dun & Bradstreet, The New York Law School, The Rockefeller Foundation.
-
Teaching assistant
Yale University
New Haven, CT
1988 - 1988
with drawing instructor Dorothea Hoffman
-
Exhibit Designer
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, CT
1981 - 1986 (5 years)
Worked closely with curators, artists, registrar and facilities in designing and installing permanent and temporary exhibits and building signage.