Our team team of professionals at L.A. Packing, Crating and Transport have degrees in Fine Arts and Museum Studies and and have years of experience in fine art handling for galleries and museums, museum crating and packing, shipping, and transportation.
Monica Becerril
Museum Specialist/Special Projects
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Monica has been a part of L.A. Packing, Crating and Transport since 2004. Monica came to LA Packing, Crating and Transport with over fifteen years experience working with museum collections and organizing traveling exhibitions. Monica specializes in museum related services.
Prior to joining the team at LA Packing, Monica worked as a Curator at the Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture, as Assistant Registrar at the Petersen Automotive Museum and Registrarial Assistant of Incoming and Outgoing Loans at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in History from U.C. Santa Cruz and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Museum Studies with a specialization in Collections Management from John F. Kennedy University. She served as a Board Member with California Exhibition Resource Alliance from 2008-2010, remains active with the International Convention of Exhibition and Fine Art Transporters (ICEFAT) and represents L.A. Packing, Crating and Transport the annual California Association of Museums, Western Museums Association and American Association of Museums conferences.
David Silverman
Client Services
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David Silverman has been a part of L.A. Packing, Crating and Transport since 1978, starting as a crater and installer. For the past 18 years, he has been serving our clients with the transport and shipping of their fine arts, as well as planning and arranging installations and exhibitions.
David has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois and
has always pursued work in art and related fields.
Susanne Lambert
Exhibition Coordinator and Client Services
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Susanne Lambert joined L.A. Packing, Crating and Transport in 2009 and brings a wealth of experience from working in museums as a Collections Manager and Registrar. She has expertise in packing and transport for a variety of media, as well as a careful consideration for exhibition loan logistics.
Susanne was formerly with the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, at Utah State University where she was also an art history instructor. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with emphasis on Museums. Active in regional and national associations she has served on the board of the Utah Museum Association, was founder of the Registrar’s Committee of Utah, and Secretary for the Registrar’s Committee of Western Museum Association and now represents L.A. Packing, Crating and Transport at the annual Western Museum Association, American Association of Museums and International Registrars conferences.
Justin Christopherson
Exhibition Coordinator and Client Services
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Justin joined the LA Packing, Crating and Transport team in the fall of 2010. He brings with him several years of experience in the Fine Art shipping industry. Justin was previously a client services representative at an international shipping company, servicing art galleries, museums and auction houses in the United States and abroad and also worked for many years in the transport services department for a New York gallery. Prior to these posts, Justin held positions in the Curatorial departments of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Justin received a Master’s Degree in Art Theory and Criticism from Rutgers University and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from DePaul University.
Carl Fiacco
Client Services
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Carl Fiacco joined L.A. Packing, Crating and Transport in 2006. He specializes in assisting our clients to find the best solutions for packing, crating, shipping and installations of fine art. Carl has worked as a professional in the field of Fine Arts since 1988, holding the position of Assistant Director at a highly respected contemporary print gallery and printmaker where he gained expertise in the field of Contemporary Printmaking and assisted in publishing graphic works by many prominent contemporary artists.
Carl also worked as the Assistant Director of a fine arts gallery specializing art spanning the late 19th Century, through Modernism and Contemporary art from the US, Latin America and Europe and assisted in organizing major exhibitions.
Carl has a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute where he studied ceramics, in addition to studying on numerous occasions at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colorado where he worked with highly regarded masters of the ceramic genre.
Steve Spargur
Operations Manager
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Steve Spargur joined L.A. Packing, Crating and Transport in 1989 and has grown with us to become our operations manager. Steve has expertise in all areas of the services we provide and is highly skilled at providing successful solutions to the most difficult installations. He specializes in large, complex and sculpture installations and is exceptionally knowledgeable in rigging, hoisting and crane service. Steve is responsible for site visits to client residences or places of business to assess projects for installation, storage and point-to-point transport.
Steve holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA.
Ralph Rosas
Dispatch
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Ralph Rosas has been with L.A. Packing, Crating and Transport since 2003.
Ralph has more than nineteen years of diversified experience in the fine art industry including extensive knowledge and experience in art handling, packing and exhibit installation. He has hands on experience in art museum relocation of entire collections, packing and transportation, local and nationally, installation and de-installation of traveling exhibits, art gallery exhibit preparation and interstate shuttle dispatching.