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Mary-Anne Martin, a native New Yorker, was educated at Smith and Barnard Colleges, and did graduate work at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts. In 1966 she interrupted her graduate studies to fill in for a month in the Impressionist Department at Sotheby's New York (then called Parke Bernet Galleries). This led to a thirteen year career with that firm, during which Martin trained as an expert in impressionist and modern paintings, eventually becoming head of their Paintings Department as well as their first female Senior Vice President and officer of the Board. A trip to Mexico City in 1974 kindled Martin's interest in Mexican Art and in 1977 she organized the first auction of Mexican Paintings ever held in the United States. In 1979 she followed with the first auction of Latin American Paintings. The success of this sale led Martin to found the Latin American Department at Sotheby's, and important semiannual sales of Latin American Art have been held there as well as at Christie's ever since. In 1982 Martin, noting the absence of private galleries in the United States devoted to the Latin American field, left the auction house in order to found Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art (mam/fa), a gallery completely devoted to the promotion and sale of Mexican and Latin American Art. Now in its eighteenth year, mam/fa is known worldwide as the premier gallery in the Latin American field, catering to collectors and museums throughout the world. Martin is Senior Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) and head of its Membership Committee. She oversees business and public relations for the gallery, supervises publications and develops new business. She works with clients who wish to sell paintings and maintains contacts with collectors and museum curators who wish to acquire important works. She is known for her connoisseurship and expertise in the Latin American field and consults for collectors, museum curators and auction houses worldwide. * Photo - Simon Alexander (http://www.simonalexander.com/) |
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Sofia joined mam/fa in 1996. Born in New York, Sofia spent her early childhood in Nicaragua before moving with her family to Miami when she was five. In 1995 she graduated from Duke University with a degree in Art History. During her senior year she curated an exhibition at the Duke University Museum of Art entitled Patriá: Contemporary Nicaraguan Painting. The exhibition and catalogue were so well received that a benefactor donated the funds to take the show to the Teatro Rubén Darío in Managua, Nicaragua. This was the first public exhibition of art since the end of the Nicaraguan revolution and its arrival evoked deep patriotic emotions in a country that hidden its artistic side for almost 15 years. At mam/fa Sofia directed the day to day operations of the gallery, coordinating exhibition and art fairs, working with artists and helping clients find the right painting for their collections. After 6 years of directing the gallery, Sofia has moved to Miami, Florida to become our regional associate. With mam/fa she will continue to work with collectors of Latin American art and to develop new business in the South Florida area. She will focus on consulting new collectors in building important Latin American collections as well on continuing to work with established clientele in selling inventory and receiving consignments.
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Rosita
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Rosita Chalem was born in Bogotá, Colombia and moved with her family to Miami at the age of ten. After graduating in 1995 from New York University with a degree in Art History, she returned to Bogotá where she assisted Beatriz Gonzalez at the Museo Nacional in the completion of a monograph on the life of the Colombian artist José Maria Espinosa. She joined mam/fa in 1998 and in 1999 she obtained a Master's degree in Modern art from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Before joining mam/fa Rosita worked as an intern in various galleries and institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. She is in charge of researching our inventory, preparing appraisals and cataloguing our exhibitions.
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 Lynn
Harrison Bump |
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Lynn created mam/fa's database system, designed and maintains our website and designs our ads, newsletters and catalogues. Lynn graduated from Columbia University in 1980 with a degree in Economics and did graduate work at the Columbia School of Business in Operations Research.
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