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1. Andrew C. Sarewitz
410 East 74th
St. #2B
New York, NY 10021
sarewitzgallery@yahoo.com
646.369.5046
EXPERIENCE:
November 2013 to present
Hubert Gallery, New York, NY; Director of Sales
Contemporary art and modern master graphics.
Responsibilities: sales, maintaining and building client base, curating, liaising with
artists, research auctions and secondary market acquisitions.
September 2003 to October 2013
Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York, NY; Director
Contemporary art from Russia, the Ukraine and the Baltic countries, with a focus on
unofficial art (post-Stalinist) from the former Soviet Union.
Responsibilities: sales, maintaining and building client base, managing and training art
consultants in all aspects of sales, closing deals, curating exhibitions, liaising with artists.
Lecturing at gallery events.
April 1998 to August 2003
Franklin Bowles Gallery, New York, NY; Co-director
Contemporary art and 20th
century master graphics.
Responsibilities: curating, training and managing sales staff and administrators, recruiting
and hiring, closing deals for consultants, maintaining and building client base, liaising
with artists. Also involved in all aspects of preparation for exhibitions including writing
and editing press releases as well as copy and design for invitations and catalogues.
February 1997 to February 1998
Serge Sorokko Gallery, New York, NY; Director
20th
century photography, contemporary paintings and prints by emerging, mid-career
and established artists, 20th
century master graphics.
Responsibilities: all aspects of gallery operations in a managerial, sales and curatorial
position.
May 1995 to February 1997
Bowles Sorokko Gallery, New York, NY; Assistant Director
Contemporary art and 20th
century master graphics.
Responsibilities: same as at Franklin Bowles Gallery, with an emphasis on creating a
client base and closing deals for consultants.
April 1994 to April 1995
Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York, NY; Art Consultant
Contemporary art from Russia, the Ukraine and the Baltic countries.
Responsibilities: primarily a sales position.
2. December 1990 to February 1994
Ergane Gallery, New York, NY; Assistant Director
Contemporary art, primarily non-American, and 20th
century prints.
Responsibilities: sales and curating.
September 1987 to September 1990
Magna Gallery, New York, NY; Consultant, promoted to Director
Featuring contemporary artists, 20th
century master graphics and sculpture.
Responsibilities: closing deals for consultants and maintaining personal client base.
Recruit and hire sales staff, curate and install exhibitions.
1981 to 1987
Employed by various theatrical producers, managers and agencies on Broadway, often on a per-
show basis. Specific dates available upon request.
Dewynters Advertising
Office manager and assistant to directors Robert De Wynter and Antony Pye-Geary.
Opened their New York advertising office (subsidiary of Dewynters, Ltd., London) for
Broadway shows.
Shows: Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera
Theatre Now, Inc., General Managers: Eddie Davis, Ralph Roseman, Norman Rothstein,
Charlotte Wilcox. President, William Cohen
Assistant to Charlotte Wilcox and/or production assistant
Broadway: The Tap Dance Kid, Jerry’s Girls, International Music Stars, Me and My
Girl, Moose Murders, Torch Song Trilogy, Joseph and…, Alone Together,
various regional productions and Broadway tours
Assisted in management of 5 regional theatres for Zev Bufman in Florida and Louisiana
Zev Bufman Productions, Producers
Managed New York office and assistant to Mr. Bufman
Broadway: Requiem for a Heavyweight, The News, various regional productions
Zev Bufman Entertainment, Producers
Assistant to Mr. Bufman
Broadway: Little Foxes, View from the Bridge, Joseph and…, various regional shows
The Elizabeth Taylor Theatre Group, Producers
Production Assistant
Broadway: Private Lives, Peg, The Corn is Green
Jeremiah J. Harris, Technical Advisors
Office Assistant to Jere Harris and Jon Wolf for Broadway shows and tours
Geisler/Roberdeau, Producers
Research assistant for Beauty and the Beast (not the musical)
3. Part-time employment 1981-1983
Theater Refreshments Inc Concession Company for Shubert owned Broadway Theaters
Bartender for various Broadway houses. Managed gift concession stand for “Joseph
and…” at the Royale Theater and “Dreamgirls” at the Imperial Theater.
ADDITIONAL ACHIEVMENTS:
Co-produced three theatrical readings:
Removing All Doubt by Aaron Sorkin: produced with Victoria Lang at the Helen Hayes
Theatre, NYC, 1985. Cast: Kevin Bacon, Matthew Broderick, Tim Daly, Dinah Manoff,
Tracy Pollan, Lonny Price and Fisher Stevens
In Memory of Karl Marx by Michael Slade: produced with Susan Sampliner, NYC, 1988.
Cast: Colleen Dewhurst, Harold Gould and Eileen Heckart
Absolution by Tom Donoghue: produced with Tom Donoghue, NYC, 1997.
Cast: Brenda Vaccaro and others
Published two short stories:
My Father, 2011 and Project Gus, 2013. Publisher: Untreed Reads, San Francisco, CA. Editor in
chief, Jay Hartman.
Published lyrics:
A Town Called Home, copyright 2013, music by Kendall Durelle Briggs, lyrics by Andrew
Sarewitz. Performed at Grace Church, Newark, NJ, June of 2013, as part of a fundraising
program of original compositions in concert for Hedrick-Martin Institute and Grace Church
Chorus. Performed by Timothy McDevitt.
Education: New York University; Tisch School of the Arts, BFA