Tarin M. Fuller is considered a leading presence in the world of African American Art.  As heir to the African American abstractionist, Norman W. Lewis, Ms. Fuller assumed administrative responsibility for the estate of Mr. Lewis in 1985, which launched her career in fine art.  Norman W. Lewis (1909-1979) was the premier African-American Abstract Expressionist of the New York School in the mid 20th century.  Lewis was a master painter and his work is in most of the major museum collections in the United States.  Ms. Fuller spent eight years enhancing her knowledge and understanding of fine art through study, museum mentorship and personally curating exhibitions of African American artists across the country.
 
In 1992 Ms. Fuller co-founded, with a prominent New York City art dealer, a gallery on "Gallery Row" in Manhattan.   After two years as Assistant Director, with an intense focus on acquisitions, artist management, and day-to-day gallery operations, in 1994 she launched her own private art gallery, Iandor Fine Arts in Soho, New York.  Iandor operated there until 1996 when it was relocated to the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ, to take advantage of the emerging artist colony and the renaissance in that city.  A 5500 sq ft shell of a former candy factory boiler room was designed and customized by Ms. Fuller. The gallery housed the archives of the Harlem Artist Guild of the W.P.A. era, the estate of Norman W. Lewis and hosted a range of mid-career and emerging artists.  The gallery space became one of the hidden jewels of downtown Newark.
 
 Additionally, the gallery offered various programs in community outreach and art classes/workshops for all ages.  Over one hundred interns passed through Iandor’s doors through an approved academic art internship program. Once again, Iandor Fine Arts gallery, has taken ownership of a freshly renovated building in the Ironbound section which will be opening in the late spring – stay tuned….