Michele C. Quinn

Owner

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 Over the past 25 + years, Michele C. Quinn, has built a career as a gallerist and private art consultant, specializing in post-war and contemporary art. Michele has served as curatorial advisor for some the largest private and corporate contemporary art collections in the United States. 

 

After a successful art career in New York City, working for high profile galleries and institutions such as Leo Castelli, Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Brooke Alexander and Gemini GEL at Joni Weyl, Michele returned to her childhood residence of Las Vegas in 2003 to explore new opportunities for her contemporary art interests, where she broke new ground elevating the city’s status as a cultural arts destination. 

 

Since 2005, Michele Quinn/MCQ FINE ART has served as sole art consultant to several major corporate collections including Wynn Resorts, MGM Resorts and Station Casinos. From 2006-2010, Michele proposed and developed the $40 million art program for MGM Resorts. Since 2014 she has led multiple large-scale projects for HINES, a privately owned global real estate investment, development, and management firm. 

 

Her knowledge of the global art market, longstanding relationships and worldwide resources and contacts have allowed Michele to successfully commission large -scale installation works by, Maya Lin, Jenny Holzer, Nancy Rubins, and Yayoi Kusama, while also collaborating with such world-renowned architects and designers as Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Rockwell Group and Studio Daniel Libeskind. 

 

Her private client roster includes several of ArtNews’ Top 100 Collectors, to the younger emerging collector, while always focusing on mid-career to established, blue-chip artists represented by reputable galleries and museums worldwide. In 2018 Michele was recruited to become the Director of Art Collections for Vulcan, Inc (aka The Paul G. Allen Family Collection) overseeing a large scale, multi-genre art, artifacts, and pop-culture memorabilia collection, considered to be one of the largest and most important art collections of our time. As Director, Michele’s position was to provide the overall guidance of the Collection, in response to the owners’ goals and specific instructions, but to also maintain a high-level current market understanding and art industry professionalism in its decision-making process. With the unfortunate and untimely passing of Mr. Allen in October 2018, Michele re-engaged with MCQ FINE ART and returned to her home in Las Vegas. 

 

In 2020 she became an Associate Appraiser with the Appraisers Association of America and in 2023 became an Accredited Member through the Appraisers Association of America. Michele is USPAP compliant, (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice), through January, 2028.

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Appraisal Experience:

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With 25 + years of experience working in galleries, auction houses and private advisory, Michele Quinn has priced, bought, and sold hundreds of works of art within this genre and has in-depth knowledge of the market and its pricing levels. Since 2020, she has performed multiple fine art estate and insurance appraisals of works within this genre, including paintings, works on paper, sculpture and prints and multiples. In 2023 she became an Accredited member of the Appraisers Association of America. 

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Specializations:

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In addition to in-depth knowledge of the Post War Contemporary Art in both the primary and secondary markets, Michele has a longstanding knowledge of the contemporary print market, through her 10+ years of experience working at Gemini GEL, one of the leading print publishers in the US since 1967, as well as the Director of Brooke Alexander Gallery, a longstanding dealer and print publisher, and Senior VP / Specialist at Christies Print Department.