ALEXIS KHAREL | PARTNER

With a focus on personal attention and grassroots marketing, Alexis Kharel brings over two decades of experience to Urban Rodeo Media.  Prior to her journey as an Art Consultant and Public Relations Specialist, she was a broadcast journalist for KMTP Channel 32 in San Francisco reporting on cultural and current events in the San Francisco Bay Area, before accepting a position at the then-renowned 20,000 sq ft venue Vorpal Gallery as an Art Consultant where she received a Gallery Excellence Award from Art in America on behalf of her peers and the gallery founder Muldoon Elder.

At Vorpal Gallery, she acted as a liaison between city initiatives and gallery interests, participating in such committees as the Osaka and San Francisco Sister City program, events for the San Francisco Opera House, and curation and execution for such exhibits as the unveiling of the Peter Malkin drawings (now housed at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum) and the introduction and first major showing of Navin June Norling (who now has representation in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY).

In New York, she was brought on as a publicist for the Actualist Art Movement, representing The Fulcrum Gallery (better known as Shakespeare’s Fulcrum), where she coordinated invitations to the sought-after Tuesday night salon dinner parties hosted by Terry Fugate Wilcox and Valerie Monroe Shakespeare (a New York icon registered as a walking piece of art) and represented them at various functions, including the New York Met Gala.

Her contract-for-hire and volunteer work in Los Angeles includes organizations such as Jail Guitar Doors, Launch LA, Galerie Michael Beverly Hills, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Bruce Lurie Gallery and QLESS HQ.  She has continued to contribute freelance articles and previously wrote a cross-cultural column for the S.E. Asian newspaper the Kathmandu Post, the national newspaper of Nepal.  She has an interest and academic background in Art and Cultural Anthropology with a degree in Communications from CalState LA.