Art Advisory & Design

My art advisory work is informed by the fact that I am also a working artist. Sometimes that means curating a collection of other people's work with a painter's eye for color, scale, and intention. And sometimes it means picking up a brush myself.

Over twenty years, I have developed art programs for corporate offices, luxury residences, and behavioral health environments across Chicago and beyond. Every program begins with the same questions: who are the people inhabiting this space, what do they need to feel, and what does the art have to do to get them there?

The answers look different every time. A two-story hand-painted mural celebrating the workers who built a company. Matisse-inspired bedroom murals for young people in eating disorder treatment. An all-star roster of established and mid-career photographers and painters in a premier Loop office tower. A commissioned work by a Buenos Aires artist that gives a behavioral health center a lobby unlike anything in its field.

What connects all of it is a single belief: that art in a space is never neutral. It either does something for the people inside it or it does not. The goal is always to make it do something real.