The MDM Team

Laura Dvorkin, Curator

Laura Dvorkin is the Co-curator of The Bunker Artspace: Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody in West Palm Beach. She has worked with the Collection for over thirteen years, managing large presentations of the Collection at institutions and the exhibitions that DeWoody curates. Dvorkin’s recent exhibitions include In The Absence of Light: Gesture, Humor and Resistance in The Black Aesthetic at the Rebuild Foundation, Chicago, Whoville at The Peninsula Hotel, Chicago, and Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, co-curated with the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia.

Dvorkin has organized ten exhibitions in the US and abroad for DeWoody including Bad For You at Shizaru Gallery, London; Inspired at Steven Kasher Gallery, New York; In Stitches at Leila Heller Gallery, New York; Please Enter at Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York; Really? at Wilding Cran, Los Angeles; and Think Pink, at Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach.

Dvorkin is the Associate Art Consultant for the Eventi Hotel, New York, Co-curator of 53 West 53, the Residential MoMA Expansion Tower, New York, and consults on acquisitions for private clients. Laura Dvorkin lives and works between New York City and West Palm Beach.

Sean Mellyn, Curator

Sean Mellyn is both a Curator and Interior Stylist. For ten years he was the head fitter for the preeminent framer Minagawa Art Lines, where he engaged in intimate working relationships with numerous artists including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and William Wegman. He worked on major projects and exhibitions for a diverse group of museums, galleries and private collectors including The Walker Art Center, Leo Castelli Gallery, The Drawing Center, Paula Cooper Gallery, and the Sally and Victor Ganz Collection.

He began his styling career in 2002 and went on to produce editorial photography shoots for Vanity Fair, Maxim, New York Spaces, Luxe, and Galerie magazines. He has contributed his unique visual sensibilities collaborating with numerous interior designers including Scott Sanders, Rafael de Cárdenas, and STONEFOX. 

Working with private clients, Mellyn curates artworks and furnishings creating stunning, refined and functional living environments. Mellyn has also curated and styled public spaces for 53 West 53, The Albion Hotel, The Chelsea Hotel Group, The Greenwich Lane, and Sotheby’s. In 2015 he styled the Presidential Suite at the Mark Hotel. Designed by Jacques Grange, the Suite is listed in the top 10 most extravagant in the world. Sean Mellyn lives and works in New York City.

Maynard Monrow, Curator

Maynard Monrow is the Co-curator of The Bunker Artspace: Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody in West Palm Beach and has worked with the Collection, managing the installation design and acquiring artwork since 2009.

Maynard Monrow has over thirty years experience in the Art World working in art advisory and curating exhibitions in both the private and public sphere. He has been involved in projects all over the world, including in New York, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, San Francisco, Santa Fe, London, Paris  Rome, Venice, and Jerusalem. Maynard Monrow lives and works between New York City, Los Angeles, and West Palm Beach.