Team of Movie Poster Experts

Ira M. Resnick Director and Founder of the Motion Picture Arts Gallery.

After graduating from New York University Film School in 1971, Ira spent ten years as a freelance photographer, all the while collecting movie posters.  He founded MPA in December of 1982 to promote Movie Art and build a great collection. 

Joe Burtis Director of Client Services

Director of Client Services means wearing many hats for Joe Burtis.  Joe does all appraisals for the gallery.  The overall selections that are brought to the public as well as items purchased for our gallery or accepted for trade are within his domain.

Joe met Ira Resnick in 1983 at a poster and postcard show.  Soon after, they began to do business together.  In 1994, Ira and Joe decided to join forces and Joe became Director of Client Services at MPA.

 

Gil Wang Business Affairs

Gil and Ira have worked together for over thirty years.  He has been a certified public accountant in New York State since 1974 and is the principal of The Wang Management Group, Inc. of White Plains, NY.


  

Bruno Nouril

Bruno has worked as an assistant in the gallery since his arrival to the States from England. He is a recent graduate of NYU, where he majored in Religious Studies. He assists the gallery in all its day-to-day activities, and is the author of the Monthly Features.