About

Gallery Contributors

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  Anthony Wessling

  Founding Director

  After three decades and several successful entrepreneurial endeavors in the advertising and design industry, Anthony (Tony) Wessling returned to his roots in the fine arts by founding Wessling Contemporary. Wessling trained as a photographer, printmaker, and painter at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art, where he studied under Joanne Leonard, Takeshi Takahara, and Louis Marinaro, among others.

  
  

  In addition to running the gallery, Wessling is a bicycling urban optimist who works with numerous civic groups dedicated to improving the livability of our cities and suburbs. And even though he doesn't look much like a farmer, he also grows olives in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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  Susan R. Kirshenbaum

  Associate Art Consultant

  Susan Kirshenbaum is a life-long art student, artist, art administrator, teacher, and curator.

  
  

  From early childhood she was encouraged to pursue art and photography while working and studying at her family's art school, the Ivy School of Professional Art, in Pittsburgh, PA, where Keith Haring was a student in her first class, Marks on Paper.

  
  

  Susan is heavily involved with the San Francisco art community, having worked with Artspan, City Art Co-op, Northern California Women's Caucus for Art, and the Sausalito Center for the Arts. She has also served as the SFWA (San Francisco Women Artists Gallery) Exhibitions Director and Chair for the Serenity Art Series at the University of California, San Francisco.

  
  

  Additionally, Susan maintains her own studio art practice at Art Explosion Studios in San Francisco's Mission District and is co-founder of The Invisibility Collective, an interdisciplinary intergenerational group of artists around the USA who delve into deep issues of identity and erasure.

  
  

  When not traversing the art world, she travels the real world extensively with her husband, Jack.

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  Nate Mahoney

  Associate Director

  In addition to being a practicing artist, Nate Mahoney is a design researcher with a background in video ethnogrophy. He enjoys collaborating with clients to build compelling collections that communicate their individual narrative.

  
  

  When not immersed in creative pursuits, Nate spends his time sailing San Francisco Bay.

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  Julie Ann Robertson

  Associate Art Advisor

  Julie focuses on helping private collectors fill their world with artwork that is personally meaningful to them. Drawing on a career leading global entertainment properties as CMO of Disney Live and VP of Marketing at Discovery Channel, she brings an eye for storytelling to the collections she helps her clients curate.

  
  

  As a board member of the Atherton Arts Foundation and a docent at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Julie is invested in creative communities. She feeds her own creativity by combining her love of traveling the world with exploring museums and galleries and hiking anywhere she can along the way.

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  Lan Adler

  Associate Art Advisor

  Lan Adler's upbringing in the Bay Area was an immersion in arts and culture, leading her first into the study of architecture, where she was then drawn to the field of electrical engineering and ultimately to a career in Silicon Valley. Now, having come full circle back to the arts, her decades of experience in account management has resulted in a disciplined approach to helping clients build captivating and engaging art collections that provide deep and enduring emotional satisfaction.

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  Jorge Alzate

  Gallery Associate

  A former longtime director of Pegaso Gallery in West Hollywood and the former head of production at Philip Nimmo Design, Jorge has an innate sense of his clients' style and sensibilities, a unique trait that he deploys to help them build stunning collections that speak to their taste and individuality.

  
  

  If you're lucky, you will get to enjoy some of Jorge's outstanding cooking, one of his (and ours!) favorite pastimes.