Credentials
Art Services 2000 Ltd. serves a wide variety of
institutional and private clients throughout the
entire state of Florida, the Southeast and all across
the United States and Canada
We conduct business worldwide and are available
to travel internationally.
Our Director Mark Alexander founded the company as a result of the many requests he received for
information and honest guidance in the highly specialized and often perplexing world of fine art.
Mr. Alexander received his Masters of Fine Arts degree in Visual Art from Florida State University in
1975. He is the past Director of Art Galleries at the University of Texas at El Paso, Appalachian State
University, The University of Miami, and Cameron University. He served as Curator of Exhibitions and
Education at the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Director of the Crealde School of Art
and Managing Editor and Publisher of Art Visions, Inc.
He has taught studio art, art history art appreciation and museum studies at both the undergraduate and
graduate levels. Before founding Art Services 2000 Ltd., his private independent fine art appraisal and
consulting firm, Mr. Alexander was the Executive Director of the Deland Museum of Art.
In his career as a museum and gallery director, exhibition curator, publisher and visual arts consultant he
has organized over two hundred exhibitions of fine art. His exhibitions, publications and visiting artists
programs have featured internationally recognized artists, scholars and critics, including: Adam Straus,
Robert Rauschenberg, Darryl Pottorf, Donald Saff, Eric Holt, Charles Yoder, James Rosenquist, Jeff
Whipple, Donald B. Kuspit, James Surls, Dave Hickey, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Arthur Freed, Phil
Perkis, Thomas McEvllivey, Duane Hanson, Harmony Hammond, Trevor Bell, Jerry Uelsmann, Jack
Burnham, Chris Burden, Milton Brown, A.D. Coleman, Johann Eyfells, Don Boarman, Joel
Oppenheimer, Ella Foshay, Mary Louise Wood, Manuel Ocampo, Ummarid Eitharong and many others.
He has also had the distinct privilege of working with many private collectors during the course of his
career including Dennis Hopper, Tom Patchett and Frank Gehry among others.
Mark Alexander, AM, ISA, is a fully Accredited Member and a Graduate of the Appraisal Studies
Program of the International Society of Appraisers with a Fine Arts Specialty designation. He is a USPAP
certified appraiser and he adheres to all International Society of Appraisers and the Uniform Standards of
Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) Report Writing Standards and the International Society of
Appraisers ( ISA ) Code of Ethics.(Click on ISA LISTING on the left)
He has been selected by the United States Department of Justice to work as a fine art appraiser for the
U.S. Marshals Service Department of Asset Forfeiture on cases involving artworks seized by the FBI, the
DEA, and the United States Postal Inspectors Service.
Mr. Alexander is also the curator and originator of "John James Audubon, American Artist and
Naturalist" a nationally traveling exhibition that has been presented by eighteen consecutive museum and
fine art venues throughout the United States. Please see the Audubon and Schedule pages on this website
for additional details of the tour.
Mr. Alexander is an independent professional member of the American Association of Museums.
Most recently he served as a fine art consultant for the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Accredited Member International Society of Appraisers # 10995262
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