Jeffrey Gillespie
Principal Consultant at Brentwood Art Advisory
- Role
- Senior Director at Matthews Gallery
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jeffrey Gillespie
Jeffrey Gillespie is a gallery director, sales director, creative professional and arts investor with broad fine art and luxury brand experience. His professional focus emphasizes relational and motivational dynamics and organizational coherence in creative and arts-oriented companies. He is a gallerist, arts columnist, and fine art sales professional, with 27 years in the luxury sales industry - predominately in the visual arts space catering to VHNWI and UHNWI - with personal sales totaling in excess of $25 million. In 2011, working directly with Christo Javacheff, Cyril Christo, and Jonathan Henery, he sold a key seven figure work from the “Over the River” project by Christo to a private collector in Mumbai. He has directed sales at Nüart Gallery, has twice directed Gaugy Gallery, and has sold through Peyton Wright Gallery, GF Contemporary Gallery, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Forum Gallery, CHRISTO Studio (Howard Street, NYC), Charlotte Jackson Gallery and LewAllen Gallery, among others. In 1998 he launched the American career of Russian realist Igor Melnikov at the Downey Gallery on Canyon Road. His private sales have included American paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures with an additional emphasis on Hard-Edge Paintings, Geometric Abstraction, Color Field, New Mexico Transcendentalist and Synchromism. In 2015, in addition to continuing with his fine art business relationships, he branched into professional reviewing of theater and visual arts. He has since written prolifically on the arts for the Newhouse family’s Advance Publications as well as for the Mail Tribune, Oregonian, and American Art Collector, among others. He has recorded audiobooks for Audible including “The Fourth Dimension of a Poem” by MH Abrahams available on Amazon. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where his hobbies include attending opera, running, investing, yoga, playing pétanque, and creative writing.
Experience
Senior Director
Mar 2024 — Present · Santa Fe, NM, US
For 22 years, Matthews Gallery and Art Advisory on Canyon Road has been among the premier galleries representing blue chip, museum-level American and European art from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. We offer a compelling and diverse selection of artwork in the traditional, modernist and contemporary traditions. We have handled many preeminent international artists, including Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Francesco Clemente, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Adolph Gottlieb, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelley, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Andrew Wyeth, Georges Braque, Lynn Chadwick, Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Paul Gauguin, Francoise Gilot, David Hockney, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Georges Rouault, Gino Severini, Toulouse Lautrec, Josef Bakos, Thomas Benrimo, Earl Biss, Emil Bisttram, Edward Borein, Dorothy Brett, T C Cannon, E Irving Couse, Andrew Dasburg, Randall Davey, Maynard Dixon, Fremont Ellis, Leon Gaspard, E. Martin Hennings, Raymond Jonson, Beatrice Mandelman, Alfred Morang, Doel Reed, Howard Schleeter, Fritz Scholder, and Cady Wells.
Education
University of Cape Town
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Art History
1991 — 1994
St. John's College, Johannesburg, South Africa
Preparatory
1986 — 1988
Bishops Diocesan College, Cape Town, South Africa
High School Diploma
1988 — 1991
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