About C+K Art Advisory

C + K Art Advisory provides comprehensive services to our clients from inspiration to installation including sourcing, acquisition, counseling, preparation and framing, project management, installation, security, and media documentation. Complete cataloguing, evaluations, and photography services are also furnished as well as maintenance, conservation, and deaccessioning of collections.

Our relationships with hundreds of artists’ studios offer clients intimate knowledge of each maker’s skills and intentions and each artwork’s story.

Principals Mike Carroll and Lynne Kortenhaus have more than three decades of experience working with clients and collectors to provide advice on acquiring, commissioning, collections management, public programming, and appraisal of fine art. We offer knowledge of the art market, auction houses, relationships with artists, gallerists, museums, design industry professionals, public art organizations and urban planning commissions. We work with art lovers who are just getting started, to seasoned collectors in the home, workspace, and public spaces. In addition, we implement marketing and communications strategies that utilize fine art collections, architecture, and design in public relations programs and special events for our clients.

About the Team

Lynne Kortenhaus

Lynne Kortenhaus is a certified appraiser and opened the New England office for Phillips Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers. Before joining Phillips, she was the associate director of Arvest Galleries that specialized in 19th and 20th century works of art. She was recruited to reposition Haley & Steele, a 100 year print and framing gallery in Boston to become the sought after gallery for antique maps and original prints. Lynne has assisted in advising and curating both private, corporate and institutional collections. She established her own firm in 1984 to expand into marketing and communications with an eye toward art, design, architecture and lifestyle. Her first client was The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company where she created a collections management and marketing program throughout the company’s first 25 properties across America. She has since advised the parent company Host Hotels & Resorts on numerous evaluations of existing hotel art collections including Four Seasons, Hyatt and Marriott Hotels. A graduate of RISD (BFA and MFA), she is an accomplished artist herself. She sits on numerous non-profit boards and is the former chair of the Boston Art Commission for the City of Boston.

Mike Carroll

Mike Carroll is a curator, gallerist, advisor, and producer in the world of fine art. He attended Emerson College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and was involved in Boston’s then thriving underground scene. He ran live performances and the video section at The Boston Film Video Foundation when video was in its black and white reel infancy. He opened his first gallery, The 11th Hour in the early 1980’s where he produced exhibitions and events by members of The Boston School.

He was the executive director at Provincetown’s Schoolhouse Center from 1997-2004 and has since been the owner of the Schoolhouse Gallery since 2005 where he is well known for presenting the finest in contemporary art. He works with industry professionals to curate and present fine art in professional spaces and advise on collections management. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Twenty Summers and sits on the Advisory Board of The Fine Arts Work Center. He writes and speaks on making, studio practices and exhibition spaces.

About the Team

Lynne Kortenhaus

Lynne Kortenhaus is a certified appraiser and opened the New England office for Phillips Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers. Before joining Phillips, she was the associate director of Arvest Galleries that specialized in 19th and 20th century works of art. She was recruited to reposition Haley & Steele, a 100 year print and framing gallery in Boston to become the sought after gallery for antique maps and original prints. Lynne has assisted in advising and curating both private, corporate and institutional collections. She established her own firm in 1984 to expand into marketing and communications with an eye toward art, design, architecture and lifestyle. Her first client was The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company where she created a collections management and marketing program throughout the company’s first 25 properties across America. She has since advised the parent company Host Hotels & Resorts on numerous evaluations of existing hotel art collections including Four Seasons, Hyatt and Marriott Hotels. A graduate of RISD (BFA and MFA), she is an accomplished artist herself. She sits on numerous non-profit boards and is the former chair of the Boston Art Commission for the City of Boston.

Mike Carroll

Mike Carroll is a curator, gallerist, advisor, and producer in the world of fine art. He attended Emerson College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and was involved in Boston’s then thriving underground scene. He ran live performances and the video section at The Boston Film Video Foundation when video was in its black and white reel infancy. He opened his first gallery, The 11th Hour in the early 1980’s where he produced exhibitions and events by members of The Boston School.

He was the executive director at Provincetown’s Schoolhouse Center from 1997-2004 and has since been the owner of the Schoolhouse Gallery since 2005 where he is well known for presenting the finest in contemporary art. He works with industry professionals to curate and present fine art in professional spaces and advise on collections management. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Twenty Summers and sits on the Advisory Board of The Fine Arts Work Center. He writes and speaks on making, studio practices and exhibition spaces.