Presca Ahn
Associate, Modern and Contemporary Art
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 112
PAhn@artnet.com

Presca Ahn is a cataloguer of modern and contemporary art for artnet Auctions. After graduating from the Brearley School and Yale College, she was a Fulbright Scholar in England. She has been a writer-in-residence at the University of East Anglia, and writes a monthly art column for The American Reader. Before joining artnet Auctions, Presca was a docent at the Yale University Art Gallery for four years. She grew up in Manhattan and East Hampton, NY, and is fluent in French and Korean.

Miles Barth
Senior Specialist, Photographs
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 123
MBarth@artnet.com

Miles Barth began working with photography collections in 1970 at the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Prints and Drawings. At that time, AIC was one of a few institutions collecting and exhibiting fine art and documentary photography on a regular basis and their holdings included a major portion of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, the Julien Levy Collection, as well a Master Set of prints by Edward Weston to name a few. In 1979, Barth became the founding curator of the International Center of Photography’s Archives and Permanent Collection where he held this position for 19 years. He is the author/editor of 11 books including TROPISM: Photographs by Ralph Gibson (1987), INTIMATE VISIONS: The Photographs of Dorothy Norman (1993), and WEEGEE’S WORLD: Life, Death, and the Human Drama, winner of the International Art Critics Award for Best Exhibition and Photography Book (1997). His most recent project was the exhibition and catalogue introduction for RISING DRAGON: Contemporary Chinese Photography (2012), for the Katonah Museum of Art.

Alex Benrimon
Associate Specialist, Prints
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 147
ABenrimon@artnet.com

Alex Benrimon is an associate specialist in prints, with extensive experience in Post-War and Contemporary prints. He received his BS in International Business from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He has years of experience working at diverse galleries, with specialties ranging from Impressionist and Modern Art to Emerging Contemporary Art.

Adria Blouin
Auctions Manager, Modern and Contemporary Art
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 698
ABlouin@artnet.com

Adria Blouin specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art. Prior to joining artnet, she was involved in various positions at institutions, such as the Saatchi Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She received her MA from Christie's Education in London, focusing on art, style, and design from the Renaissance to Modern periods, including a graduate thesis in arms and armor. She also holds a BA in Art History and History, with a Classics concentration from Roanoke College, Salem, VA.

Anna Button
Associate, Prints and Multiples
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 797
AButton@artnet.com

Anna Button received her BA in Art History and Writing from Ithaca College, NY, in 2010. While at Ithaca, she worked as an archivist in the art history department's Visual Resource Collection. Most recently, she was an assistant to the artist Mariko Mori, helping manage her studio as well as her non-profit organization, Faou Foundation.

Hilary Chapman
Associate, Modern and Contemporary Art
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 162
HChapman@artnet.com

Hilary Chapman received her BA in Art History from the University of Michigan in 2010. Prior to joining artnet, Hilary held positions at the Detroit Institute of Art and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Hannah Cohn
Senior Account Coordinator
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 118
HCohn@artnet.com

Hannah Cohn holds a BA in Art History from the University of Vermont, where she was a teaching assistant for the Art History department. Prior to joining the artnet Auctions client services team, she gained experience in a variety of institutions, including the UBS Art Collection and the Hudson River Museum.

Lisa Genna
Account Coordinator
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 127
LGenna@artnet.com

Lisa Genna provides support to artnet Auctions as a member of the client services team. She graduated from Northeastern University with a BA in English Literature and a minor in Art History. Prior to joining artnet, she gained extensive experience in art institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Museum of the Moving Image, and the Nassau County Museum of Art.

Ben Hanly
Specialist, Modern and Contemporary Art
London Office
+44 (0)20 7729 0824
BHanly@artnet.com

Ben Hanly is a Modern and Contemporary Art specialist with over 15 years of experience working in the UK and on the international art market. With master degrees from Trinity College Dublin and the Courtauld Institute of Art London, he started his career at the Dover Street Gallery, specializing in European Old Masters and Viennese Secessionist Art. He later transferred into the Contemporary Art market where he curated over 100 projects with many of the UK’s leading public art institutions, galleries, and artists. In 2006, he joined the auction house Lyon & Turnbull as head of the Modern and Contemporary Art department. There he played a decisive role in securing and overseeing the sale of the Deloitte Collection in 2008, the Chen Collection, and the legendary Soho Colony Room Club in 2009.

Bree Hughes
Associate Specialist, Photographs
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 121
BHughes@artnet.com

Bree Hughes is an associate specialist of photography at artnet Auctions. Bree received her BA in Art History from University of Wisconsin in Madison, and completed her Masters Studies in Fine and Decorative Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. Prior to joining artnet Auctions, Bree worked as an assistant registrar for the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, managing the museum’s collection of prints and photographs. Bree later went on to work as an assistant for Sotheby’s New York, and as a consultant for Hermes of Paris, Gilt Group and Frieze Fair of New York. Bree has privately assisted collectors and estates on print and photography appraisals.

Rebecca Lax
Senior Specialist, Prints
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 125
RLax@artnet.com

Rebecca Lax is a senior specialist in contemporary prints with broad experience in the field for the past 27 years. After starting at Solo Press/Impressions in New York City in 1982, she continued in her interest by working at Pace Prints, Viart Corporation as Goldman Sachs Associate-managing prints and photographs collections, Director of Finance and outside consultant to the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University and as Sales Consultant to Jim Kempner Fine Art, NYC. She has been a Consultant for private collectors as well as museum placement Advisor – in acquisitions.

Abigail Mackles
Business Director
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 130
AMackles@artnet.com

Abigail Mackles oversees business operations for artnet Auctions, specializing in data analysis and business strategy. Prior to joining artnet, Abigail worked at Sotheby’s Boston, as well as at a Boston-based exhibition design firm. Abigail holds a BA in Art History and Architectural Studies from Connecticut College.

Gracie Mansion
Senior Specialist, Modern and Contemporary Art
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 494
GMansion@artnet.com

Gracie Mansion has over 20 years of extensive experience in all aspects of the art market, specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art. She has lectured and participated in panels at museums and universities in the United States and Europe. As an independent curator and consultant to private collectors, corporations, and museums, she has advised her clients on acquisitions and assisted them in the development of their art collections. She opened her eponymous gallery in the East Village of New York City in 1982, later moving to SoHo, and then to Chelsea, before closing in 2002 to concentrate on private dealing and the secondary art market.

John McCord
Senior Specialist, Contemporary Art
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 173
JMcCord@artnet.com

John McCord is a specialist in Contemporary Art with a focus on emerging and late Contemporary Art. Studying Fine Art at The Cooper Union in New York City eventually led him to work at the American Fine Arts Gallery as associate director from 2002 to 2005, and at Daniel Reich Gallery as director from 2005 to 2007. He later became a private dealer of Contemporary Art, where he further developed an extensive background working with prominent private and corporate collections, artists, galleries, and curators throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Brittany Noris
Associate Specialist, Contemporary Art
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 131
BNoris@artnet.com

Brittany Noris has a wide range of work experience in the art world, from Contemporary Art galleries in New York City to the marketing and partnerships department at AXA Art Insurance in the UK. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania and recently earned a MA in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London.

Caitlin Parker
Associate, Photographs
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 114
CParker@artnet.com

Caitlin Parker is interested in modern and contemporary photographs, prints, and works on paper. She recently completed the M.A. program in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York and wrote a graduate thesis on the history of marketing museum identity. She holds a B.A. in European Studies and a minor in Art History from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. Prior to joining artnet, Caitlin gained work experience at a variety of institutions, including the FLAG Art Foundation, Arts to Grow, and the Muscarelle Museum of Art, where she curated an online exhibition focused on ten Abstract Expressionist works in the collection.

Deborah Ripley
Senior Specialist, Contemporary Art
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 174
DRipley@artnet.com

Deborah Ripley has been an acknowledged print expert for 28 years. After starting at Pace Prints in New York City, she worked at Christie’s in the prints department, and then was the director of numerous fine print ateliers, including Landfall Press and Art of this Century. In addition, she wrote for Art on Paper, a leading magazine on print collecting and connoisseurship. In 2011, she contributed a chapter on printmaking for a manual, entitled Accelerating the Curves: the Artist’s Roadmap for success.

Robin Roche
Vice President, artnet Auctions
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 140
RRoche@artnet.com

Robin Roche oversees all aspects of the artnet Auctions division. She has 15 years of experience on the management side of arts institutions, including nine years at Christie’s where she managed multiple Fine Art and Decorative Art departments. More recently, she managed the New York location of the Gerald Peters Gallery, one of the preeminent galleries in the field of American Art.

Heather Russell
Senior Specialist, Asian Modern and Contemporary Art
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 692
HRussell@artnet.com

Heather Russell is a senior specialist in Modern and Contemporary Art with a focus on blue-chip Contemporary Art, as well as Asian and Indian Contemporary Art. She previously worked at Irvine Contemporary in Washington, D.C., James Cohan Gallery in New York City, Sotheby’s New York, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in Richmond, VA. She has nearly 20 years of experience in the museum, auction house and gallery worlds. She holds a BFA and an MA in Classical Art History and Doctoral Studies in Art History from The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and is a published author and journalist for The International Art Newspaper (2002–2005) and Apollo magazine, in the UK.

Soojin Seelye
Associate, Contemporary and Asian Contemporary Art
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 800
SSeelye@artnet.com

Soojin Seelye specializes in Contemporary Asian art, assisting the department in researching and cataloguing. She received her Bachelor’s of Fine Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. She then continued on to receive her Masters of Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York, including a graduate thesis on Asian tax and customs regulations for Fine Art. Along with collaborating and exhibiting her own artwork, she has gained extensive experience in galleries such as the Berry Hill Galleries, Winkleman Gallery, and Franklin Parrasch Gallery among others, along with assisting in national summer college art programs.

Molly Thrailkill
Auctions Manager, Prints and Photographs
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 799
MThrailkill@artnet.com

Molly Thrailkill graduated magna cum laude in 2009 from Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, with a double concentration in French and Art and Art History. She participated in internships at the Picker Art Gallery, in Hamilton, NY, at Lori Bookstein Fine Art and Blue Medium Inc., in New York City.

Christina Warner
Senior Specialist, Modern and Contemporary Art
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 596
CWarner@artnet.com

Christina Warner specializes in Impressionist and Modern Art. She earned her BA in Art History and Spanish Literature from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. She began her career interning at Citibank Art Advisory in 2002. From 2002 to 2003 she learned the business dynamic of the auction industry by working at Christie’s in New York. In a desire to enhance her knowledge of Impressionist and Modern art, she worked as Assistant Director for the Helly Nahmad Gallery in New York from 2005 to 2012. After 7 years of experience, she not only developed an extensive knowledge of the secondary market but also maintained abreast of the primary market through independently curating pop-up exhibitions. In 2013, she will be completing a professional certificate from New York University in Art Business.

Susanna Wenniger
Senior Specialist, Photographs
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 172
SWenniger@artnet.com

Susanna Wenniger has over 20 years of experience working with Fine Art photography. She was the director of the Laurence Miller Gallery for nine years, and became the senior photography specialist for artnet Online Auctions (now artnet Auctions) in 1999. More recently, she has served as the curator for two important private collections and has also been an advisor to photography collectors.

Max Wolf
Senior Specialist, Contemporary Art
New York Office
+1–212–497–9700 ext. 399
MWolf@artnet.com

Max Wolf was introduced to Fine Art and Antiques at his family’s Cleveland-based auction house, Wolf’s Fine Art Auctioneers. He worked at the auction house, Doyle New York, and The Manhattan Art and Antique Center before joining The Showplace Antique and Design Center where he oversaw the auction and marketing department for three years. He has been with artnet Auctions as a Modern and Contemporary Art specialist since 2008, specializing in postwar, Pop Art, and Urban Art, as well as in works by emerging and Contemporary artists.