Butera Art Advisory and Management, LLC is an independent firm completely devoted to the best interests of our clients and unconstrained by allegiances to auction houses, dealers or galleries.
Butera Art Advisory offers exceptional customer service and art expertise. We approach each project with our art market acumen, intellectual agility, scholarly knowledge, attention to detail and organizational skills. By working with Butera Art Advisory, clients gain access to our extensive network of specialists, experts and resources.
Alanna speaks with One Art Nation about the auction sales process. Each client’s collection is unique and thus needs special attention and consideration. When advising a client during the sales process, BAAM looks nationally and internationally to identify the location and venue where each item will bring the highest price.
Alanna Fabbri Butera, MA
HEAD OF APPRAISALS AND ADVISORY, PRESIDENT
By leveraging her extensive experience in the art market and the appraisal process, Alanna provides exceptional service to her clients while working with them on appraisals, sales advisory and collection management for fine and decorative art and other tangible personal property.
At Butera Art Advisory, Alanna is in charge of Appraisal Services and Sales Advisory.
Alanna has worked at international art auction houses and leading independent appraisal and advisory firms and has serviced clients and their advisors in the valuation and disposition of art. As an art appraiser, she assisted clients with traditional art appraisals for estate, insurance, collateral, damage/loss and charitable contribution purposes with a focus on Modern, Postwar and Contemporary art. With her background in economics, she also specialized in complex art valuations such as artists’ estates and estate fractional discounting.
Alanna received her Master of Arts in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art (New York, NY) and her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Art History from the University of Pennsylvania. She has also taken courses in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Art at New York University and completed the certificate program in American Furniture and Decorative Art at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.
Alanna is a frequent lecturer on the art market, appraisal matters and planning for art and personal property collections. Recent presentations include:
- “Understanding the Metrics of the Art Market” at the 2019 American Society of Appraisers (ASA) Personal Property Connoisseurship Conference (New York, NY)
- “Art Demystified: An Inside Look into the Art Auction Market” at The Cornell Club of New York (New York, NY)
- “The Untapped Collaboration – How Business and Art Appraisers Can Work Together” at the ASA New York and New Jersey Chapters
Alanna is an Accredited Member of the Appraisers Association of America.
Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D. (Ginny)
Vice President and Head of Curatorial Projects
For more than 40 years, Ginny has been creating innovative, dynamic and engaging art exhibitions and collections for corporate, institutional and private clients. She is a curator, art program developer, lecturer, published author, art show juror, board member and grant writer for art and culture. Active in Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey, and surrounding areas, Ginny is constantly searching for exceptional works to add to permanent collections or to present at exhibitions that reveal new ideas, materials and meanings in art, and for artists whose new ideas could enhance a home, an office or other public space.
During her career she has curated art exhibitions for museums and galleries such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery and other prestigious institutions around the country. She developed and co-curated, The Folding Image: Screens by Western Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and for the Yale University Art Gallery. She was then commissioned to create another show, Contemporary Screens, which was circulated to five different museums around the country.
Since 2000, Ginny has curated more than 70 exhibitions of art by contemporary professional artists and led 20 artists’ panel discussions in the Northern New Jersey area, including at the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery where she served as the Director and Lead Curator, at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation-Morris Arts Gallery at 14 Maple in Morristown, NJ, and at several other New Jersey area galleries and arts institutions. Her insight for outstanding art was underscored when she invited Newark artist, Adebunmi Gbadebo, to have her first one-person show at the Maloney Art Gallery and who has recently had work in a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ginny has been a member of the Board of Pro Arts, Jersey City, NJ, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, and Morris County’s Arts & Culture Collaborative. Recently, she has been invited to be a member of the Board at the Akwaaba Gallery in Newark. She has also been a tenacious and powerful advocate for the arts and artists, winning Morris Arts’ Outstanding Arts Advocate of the Year in 2010 and going the “extra mile” to promote artists and their work.
Ginny has lectured widely about art, published articles in a variety of art magazines, and has written essays and catalogs for various artists’ gallery and museum exhibitions.
For over 25 years, she was a Professor of Art History, Chairperson of the Art Department, and Director/Curator of the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery at Saint Elizabeth University in Morristown, New Jersey.
Ginny received her B.A. in Renaissance Studies from Trinity College, Hartford, CT, her M.A. in History of Art from Johns Hopkins University and her Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.
She was the recipient of a Smithsonian Museum Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a recipient of a two-year National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in the Print and Drawing Department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.