The House of Drebin is pleased to announce the appointment of Michelle Tripodi as Global Art Liaison, a newly created role at the center of the house’s relationships with collectors, advisors, and galleries worldwide.
Tripodi arrives from Galerie de Bellefeuille, where she served as gallery manager and built a reputation for the discretion, precision, and personal attention that serious collectors expect. Over her years on the gallery floor she managed acquisitions from first conversation to final placement, guided new and seasoned collectors alike through decisions that would live on their walls for decades, and coordinated between artists, institutions, and the private clients whose trust a gallery is built on. It is a particular kind of experience, one that cannot be taught quickly, and it makes her a natural fit for a house that has always treated the collector relationship as something to be cultivated over a lifetime, not managed as a transaction.
So what does a Global Art Liaison do?
In short, she is the single, dedicated point of contact between the world and the work. For collectors, that means direct access to real answers: inquiries about specific works, guidance on editions and formats, from limited edition photographs to lightboxes, diamond dust works, neon, and sculpture, and a considered conversation rather than a catalogue. A collector who has followed a particular image for years can now speak with someone whose entire role is to understand what they are looking for, and why. A collector encountering the work for the first time is met with the same attention as one who has lived with it for twenty years. When the moment comes to acquire, Tripodi connects each collector with the right gallery, because works from The House of Drebin are collected exclusively through select galleries worldwide.
For those galleries and for advisors, the role means something equally valuable: a consistent partner who understands both the works and the standards of the house. Exhibition planning, placement questions, condition and framing standards, the practical choreography of moving significant works across borders, all of it now runs through one person who speaks for the house with clarity and care. The galleries remain the home of the work. The liaison ensures that every one of them, and every collector they serve, has a direct line to the house behind it.
And for The House of Drebin itself, it means that every conversation, from a first inquiry to a placement in a significant private collection, is handled with the same deliberateness David Drebin brings to the images themselves. The work has always been cinematic, psychologically charged, and unhurried in its making. The relationships around the work should be no different.
Founded in 2004, The House of Drebin has mounted more than one hundred exhibitions internationally, published ten books, and placed works in collections across five continents, including those of some of the most recognized collectors in the world. The house operates across New York, Toronto, and Miami, with works represented by select galleries in Los
Angeles, Berlin, London, and beyond. Works begin at $8,000 and are collected through select galleries worldwide.
Tripodi’s appointment reflects how collecting has evolved. Many collectors still discover the images on a gallery wall, but just as many arrive through a book, an exhibition abroad, a work seen in a friend’s home, or years of quiet attention from a distance. What has not changed is what they want when they finally reach out: a real conversation, with a real person, who knows the work intimately and respects their time. The Global Art Liaison exists for exactly that moment, guiding each inquiry to the gallery best placed to serve it, so that no collector, anywhere in the world, is ever more than one conversation away from the work.
Tripodi will hold that door open: fielding inquiries, walking collectors through editions and availability within an edition, coordinating viewings with galleries, and ensuring that the experience of collecting a work from The House of Drebin carries the same weight and intention as the work itself.
Michelle Tripodi begins her role immediately, working with collectors, advisors, and galleries across North America, Europe, and beyond. She may be reached through The House of Drebin at daviddrebin.com.
