MKG Art Management’s consultants have earned advanced degrees in art history and arts administration and bring an academic perspective into the process of building art collections. Before joining MKG Art Management, our consultants have acquired varied experiences in the art world: in academia, museums, non-profit organizations, galleries, auction houses, and other consulting companies. MKG Art Management has the largest art advisory staff in the city of Houston.
MKG’s depth of talent makes MKG Art Management well suited to handle the largest and most complex projects. In addition, MKG Art Management is uniquely equipped to provide clients with certified fine art appraisals with members of the International Society of Appraisers on staff.
“MKG Art Management has handled each project with the utmost attention, skill and professionalism.” – M.D. Trice, Vice President, Global Sales, Schlumberger
Melissa Grobmyer
Cecily Horton
Janet Hobby
Tabitha Caldwell Doby
Liana Schwaitzberg
Barbara Blades-Lines
Josephine Hill
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Melissa Kepke Grobmyer, M.A.
Founding Partner, President
mkg@mkgart.com
Born and reared in Houston, MELISSA KEPKE GROBMYER graduated from St. John’s School in 1986, and earned her Bachelor of Arts and her Master of Arts degrees at the University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated with high honors. Before becoming an art advisor, Melissa worked with 9th through 18th century Decorative art at Sotheby’s in New York. Later she worked with contemporary art at Robert Miller Gallery and 19th century American art at Richard York Gallery, both in New York. While still in her twenties, Mrs. Grobmyer edited a major publication from Abrams entitled American Images: The SBC Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art, published in 1996.
Nineteen years ago, Melissa founded MKG Art Management, the only art advisory and appraisal firm in Houston at that time. With a staff of six, MKG manages over 250 million dollars worth of art assets for corporate and private clients.
Melissa has assembled collections for Fortune 100 companies as well as for private collectors. These collections focus on various topics in American and European art, spanning the 19th through 21st centuries, and include painting, photography, sculpture and new media. She has also researched, assembled and administrated collections of Texas Regionalism, American Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, and 19th century Realism, Impressionism, and Beaux Arts painting.
Along with ongoing art acquisitions and management work, recent projects have included curating “Luxuriant Refuse” for The Pearl Fincher Museum of Art in 2012, which focused on art and consumerism. Attendance records for the exhibition were the highest in the museum’s history.
Throughout her career, Melissa has focused on education, and has taught classes on various aspects of the history of art and architecture, most notably on Gulf Coast vernacular architecture for the Rice University School of Continuing Studies. Most recently, the Church of St. John the Divine invited Mrs. Grobmyer to formulate and conduct multiple art history lectures on Christian art and iconography, some of which are available via podcast at www.SJD.org.
Melissa is a trustee of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and she serves on the Modern and Contemporary Acquisitions subcommittee and the Antiquities subcommittee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is a past board member of Lawndale Art Center, which is dedicated to exhibiting work by emerging artists in Texas. She is a member of ArtTable, and the International Association of Professional Art Advisors. Mrs. Grobmyer is an approved educator for the ASID, IIDA and AIA.