LISA LODESKI
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Lisa Lodeski Art Appraisals, Aliso Viejo, CA.
1/05 – present: Fine Art Appraisals and valuation
consultation services for paintings, sculpture, and works on paper with
specialties in 19th and 20th century works of art and
artwork created by women artists. USPAP
compliant; trained by the American Society of Appraisers through University of
California, Irvine, CA.
Lisa Lodeski Fine Arts, Inc., Aliso Viejo, CA.
3/97 – present: Fine art services company offering art
advisory, search, selection, placement, installation and custom framing
services for corporate and individual clients from beginning to experienced
collectors.
Founder, Salon 6, a division of Lisa Lodeski Fine
Arts, Aliso Viejo, CA.
5/01 – 12/03: A private educational program for fine
artists focused on career development and management for artists;
self-representation; and art marketing in lecture and workshop formats offered
through university, civic, and nonprofit institutions and by private consultation.
Exhibition Coordinator, National Museum for Women in
the Arts, Washington D.C.
9/98 – 9/00: An independent curatorial association for
Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists
Travel, an exhibition scheduled to open pending funding.
Director/Curator, Danville Fine Arts Gallery,
Danville, CA.
8/92 - 6/97. Full responsibility for operations of a
nonprofit, community art gallery reporting to the Board of Directors of the
Danville Area Cultural Alliance as an independent contractor.
Curator, Lynn House Gallery, Antioch, CA
1/96 - 12/97. Curatorial responsibility for a civic
gallery reporting to the city's Cultural Arts Coordinator and Arts Commission
as an independent contractor.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Aliso Viejo Public Library, Aliso Viejo, CA
3/05 – 4/05: Instructor/Leader of a workshop series for
fine artists funded by a grant to prepare artists for entering the marketplace.
Instructor, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
9/99 – present: Instructor for "Professional Skills for
Fine Artists", a class on the fundamental business basics for fine artists
and "Artists at Work: Exhibitions
and Sales”, an advanced course in business skills and artist issues.
Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA.
1/02 – 12/02. Instructor:
Modern and Contemporary Art History; Ancient to Medieval Art History;
Renaissance to Contemporary Art History Spring & Fall, 2002 semesters.
Lecturer, Torrance Cultural Arts Center, Torrance, CA.
6/01: Instructor:
Professional Skills for Fine Artists, a class on the fundamental
business basics for fine artists.
Lecturer, California State University, Fullerton,
Fullerton, CA.
2/01 – 5/01: Instructor for “From Studio to Gallery”, an art marketing course offered through Extended Education.
Instructor, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos
Verdes, CA.
9/98 – 5/01: Instructor for " Professional Skills
for Artists", a class on the fundamental business basics for fine artists
and "Artists At Work: Exhibitions
and Sales" an advanced course in business skills and artist issues.
PUBLICATIONS
"The Harem
as a Site for Sexual Fantasy in the Work of Vera Willoughby". San
Jose: Women's Caucus for Art, Southbay
Chapter, September, 1997.
With New Eyes: Toward an Asian American Art History in the
West. Annotated bibliography.
San Francisco: San Francisco
State University, 1995.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Artful Home, Designer
Profile: Lisa Lodeski, Sept. 29, 2009.
Laguna Beach Magazine,
Fall/Winter 2007, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pgs. 106-107.
Aliso Viejo News, June, 2004.
Smith, Constance. Art Marketing 101, Artnetwork (revised),
Nevada City, CA, 2002.
College Art Association News,
2001; 2002.
Aliso Viejo News, 2000.
San Ramon Valley Times, 1996.
RESEARCH
2/00 – 3/00: Exhibition
research for the National Museum for Women in the Arts in preparation of a
checklist for Intrepid Women: Victorian
Artists Travel at The Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA; J. Paul Getty Museum,
Los Angeles, CA; and in the U.K. at Victoria & Albert Museum, London;
British Museum of Natural History Museum, London; Girton College, Cambridge;
Walker Art Galleries, Liverpool; Royal Photographic Society, Bath; Joint
Services Command, Bracknell; Hastings Museum, Hastings; Hastings Library,
Hastings; East Essex County Records, Lewes; British Library, London.
1997: Graduate research assistant to Dr. Whitney
Chadwick on the topic of Victorian Lady Travelers, part of which was applied to
the second edition of Chadwick's Women, Art, and Society, 1997.
1996: Graduate reader for Dr. Whitney Chadwick for
Women in Art History course.
1995: Graduate research assistant to Mark Johnson,
Director of San Francisco State University Gallery on the topic of
Asian-American artists. Bibliographical
and analytical research used for exhibition and catalog, With New Eyes: Toward an Asian American Art History in the
West, 1995.
EDUCATION & ASSOCIATIONS
Appraisal Studies in Fine and
Decorative Arts, Certificate Program, University of California, Irvine,
November, 2004.
M.A. Art History, San
Francisco State University, May, 1997.
B.A. Art History, minor
Business Administration, California State University, Fullerton, 1991. Foreign language: French.
Art Table, Member, 2001 –
2009.
American Society of
Appraisers, Student Member, 2004 – present.
College Art Association,
Member, 1992 – 2003.
College Art Association,
Mentor for CAA Fellowship Program, 2002.