Robert Deeds

Driller Queens is a Berlin based collective of experienced, friendly, and creative problem solvers that provide quality solutions for your office, atelier, and home improvement dreams. We are well versed in navigating the unique challenges presented by a city with such a storied and diverse architecture and construction method history. Be it Altbau, Neubau, Pre-war, Post-war, Eastern, Western, we got you covered.

Provide planning and execution of all mater of creative construction and arts services projects for one of Europe's most vibrant and fluid art environments. Lead construction and renovation projects for artist studios and exhibition spaces. Develop strategies and logistics for large projects. Fabricate creative fixture and exhibition solutions for events and private residences.

Leerform is an artist-led art handling and fabrication studio based in Brooklyn that specializes in custom crating, exhibition furniture, mountmaking, packing, transportation, and on-site installation for museums, galleries, and artists. I constructed large scale exhibition furniture for New York City's premiere cultural institutions.

I presided over all exhibition and collection related audio visual matters for the world’s leading institution for photography. I clarified the needs of artists, designers, production staff, and curators, to ensure effective and meaningful experiences of electronic media. I implemented a diversity of audio video installations from single channel audio to multi channel and video wall networked presentations. I developed a database of all current technology and legacy equipment specific to historic works.

Fabricated unique mounts from brass and steel for museum objects as well as led challenging exhibition projects for New York's only institution dedicated to celebrating the works that enhance contemporary life. Coordinated with curators and exhibition designers to ensure proper conveyance of artistic interpretation. Constructed large scale exhibition furniture to illustrate complicated ideas intended for overwhelming visual impact.

Facilitated the fine art matting and framing needs as well as the exhibitions and collection management needs New York City's most unique institution dedicated to presenting and preserving the art and culture of Puerto Ricans and Latin Americans in the United States. Led photo documentation initiatives of specific portions of the museums vast collection. Archivally re-housed stored works to protect them so that they may be better shared with generations to come.

Managed high security storage facility operations for an institution whose permanent collection is made up of over 227,000 objects, one of the largest art collections in the United States. Updated collection movement procedures and introduced a standardized reporting system more usable to all departments. Led cross-departmental major reorganization initiatives, which resulted in significant increases in practical capacity at very low costs.

Provided labor, material, and transportation logistics for the nation's preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States. Organized personnel and coordinated with other departments on all matters of exhibitions and collection management for in house exhibitions, as well as for the Whitney Biennial. Presided over off-site installation and new acquisition documentation initiatives including the historic 2010 Emily Fisher Landau gift of over 350 significant art objects.

Maintained client/artist/studio/gallery relations for a workshop that fabricates, re-engineers, conserves, and repairs Art objects and with applications of new media for institutions such as Pace Gallery, Fine Arts Conservation, and New York Public Library. Performed the technical duties of component installation, troubleshooting, cabling, circuit building, and case building. Researched and stayed current with published reports from AIC's Electronic Media Group, The Tate's Media Matters, INCCA, and others.

Oversaw the receipt, storage and release of packed art objects for New York City’s leading provider of fine arts services to world class institutions such as Morgan Library and American Museum of Natural History. Created ultra secure shipping conveyances such as crates, foam-core boxes, gator board boxes, and archival boxes. Developed storage database which cataloged all works in long term storage.