Fine Art Dealers Association
Mission Statement
The Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA) was founded in 1990 as a non-profit membership organization of respected and established art dealers from across the United States. Its members are dedicated to promoting and maintaining the highest degree of professionalism, scholarship and integrity in all business conducted with colleagues, institutions and the art buying public. Membership in FADA is highly selective and by invitation only. Each member has expert knowledge of the artist or periods in which he or she specializes and maintains a corresponding inventory. In addition to demonstrating a commitment to enriching the cultural lives of their communities, members share their expertise through significant exhibition, informative catalogs, and by offering quality works of art whose authenticity is unconditionally guaranteed.
Membership
As of February, 2009, there were 54 active U.S. art gallery members of the association. Each member also has their own individual gallery space on the association's web site - FADA.com.
Los Angeles Art Show
The Fine Art Dealers Association also owns and runs the Los Angeles Art Show. This encyclopedic art exhibition that takes place in Los Angeles every year. The 2009 exhibit featured 150 galleries displaying works from the Old Masters to the Contemporary Masters in a space twice the size of the 2008 show. Over 35,000 people attended the 2009 exhibit in the 150,000 square foot space at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Current Board of Directors
Betina Tasende, President
Tasende Gallery
Beverly Denenberg, Vice President
Denenberg Fine Arts, Inc.
Geoff Cline, Treasurer
Cline Fine Art
Louis Stern, Secretary
Louis Stern Fine Arts
Howard L. Rehs
Rehs Galleries, Inc.
George Stern
George Stern Fine Arts
Jonathan Novak
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art
Susan Bodo
Schiller & Bodo European Paintings
Abby Taylor
Abby M. Taylor Fine Art
Past Presidents
1997 - 2009: Howard L. Rehs
1995 - 1997: Tom Nygard
1993 - 1995: Gavin Spanierman
1991 - 1993: David Stary Sheets
1990 - 1991: George Stern