About Me

My focus is the study and research of modern art through teaching, special lectures, exhibitions, publications and select artist & artist trust projects. 

I have over 25 years in the field, and as a specialist in modern & contemporary art, I have served as a curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. I was expertly trained in museum practices in art handling, registration, research, cataloging, stewardship & care during my time at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, including international travel on behalf of the museum for special exhibitions.

Writing about art is my passion, I am a published author of a number of chapters in edited academic collections, artist books, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, art magazines, museum and gallery publications, and I have a special interest in twentieth century art, diasporic creativity in the United States including Italian American Modernism in the fields of design and fine art, as well as American and European Expressionist practice in art and literature. I have also published work on the connections found in the study of art, spirituality, music, as well as film and psychoanalysis.

My upcoming monograph on Italian American Modernist Edward Boccia entitled Edward E Boccia Painter of Nightmares and Dreams will be published with Hirmer Verlag and University of Chicago Press, December 2025

In addition to my scholarly work I am expert in the management of fine art and decorative art collections and as such offer collection management consultancy services for private collections, artist trusts, foundations and institutional collections, by appointment only. Drawing upon my museum training and extensive knowledge of fine art I provide a full suite of services all of which are NDA compliant.

In 2014, it was with great honor that I accepted the title of Honorary Curator and Director of Research, The Edward E. Boccia Artist Trust, where I oversee research and a large-scale book project on the late American artist and the exhibition program. I also served as the Curator for the Objects Foundation, New York, a private art and design collection 2019-2025 and as a Member of the DEI Committee, Molloy University, 2022-Present and as a Board Member for The Documentary Film Fund focusing on fundraising for important films about civil rights, diversity and creativity.

I hold my MA, Fine Art History, University of Toronto, Modern &  Contemporary Art & my Honors BA, Art History & History, University Scholars, Schreyer Honors College, Pennsylvania State University.

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