Art Services 2000 Ltd. is a private company founded
to lend assistance, information and professional fine
art research, consulting and appraisal services to the
art profession, legal profession and the general public.
Credentials
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 Lt., 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: Robert Rauschenberg, Darryl Pottorf, James Rosenquist, Donald
B. Kuspit, Dave Hickey, Thomas McEvllivey, Duane Hanson, Harmony Hammond, Donald
Saff, Jerry Uelsmann, Jack Burnham, Chris Burden, Milton Brown, A.D. Coleman, Johann
Eyfells, Don Boarman, Joel Oppenheimer, Ella Foshay, Mary Louise Wood, Manuel Ocampo,
and many 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 adheres to all International Society of Appraisers and USPAP Report Writing
Standards and the ISA Code of Ethics. He was recently selected as a professional fine art
appraiser by the United States Department of Justice to work with the U.S. Marshals Service
Department of Asset Forfeiture on cases involving the FBI, DEA, and US Postal Service.
Mr. Alexander is also the curator and originator of "John James Audubon, American Artist and
Naturalist" a nationally traveling exhibition that continues to be presented by museums
throughout the United States. Please see the Audubon and Schedule pages on this website for
additional details and museum venues .

Accredited Member # 10995262
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Illustrated above:
John Hoppner, RA
British, 1758-1810
Portrait of Mr. & Mrs.
Jacques Phillipe
Loutherbourg RA
oil on canvas