DOUGLAS M CCLEMONT

Facilitated the acquisition process for select private collections researching potential artworks and negotiating favorable terms with galleries and auction houses.

Advise and facilitate acquisitions for select clients.

Assist in buying and selling of artworks for private collections.

Spearheaded the launch of gallery's Chelsea outpost.

Lead salesperson and manager for 18 month startup location.

Liaised with gallery artists, established writers and creatives.

• Team leader in annual sales of artworks
• Oversee staff of 12
• Supervise rights and reproductions
• Collaborate with more than 500 clients, private collectors and art advisors
• Point person for majority of gallery artists to address and spearhead mutual concerns
• Approve shipping, craning and storage arrangements for monumental sculpture
• Mentor younger members of the team to aid their development
• Aid in the development of strategies to increase the gallery's list of client contacts
• Strategize sales, museum outreach, exhibition layouts and client relations
• Generate in-house writing, adapt and edit materials from press releases to website biographies to catalog essays
• Act as ambassador for gallery attending key events

• Originator of monthly marketplace section that highlighted exhibitions worldwide

• Generated monthly critical analysis of New York gallery exhibitions

• Produced reviews, first-person commentary, feature articles, interviews with established artists and multimedia content focusing on New York galleries, as well as coverage of emerging art and major auction house activities

• Wrote analytical studies of contemporary art monographs and scholarly publications

• Served as creative lead in all aspects of magazine publication from idea to print, determining content, design and layout of five monthly periodicals
• Supervised staff of twenty, collaborated with over 70 freelance artists, writers, filmmakers and photographers
• Controlled media relations, production budget and promotional event planning