 October
2008 This weekend visit the San Francisco Tribal Art Fair
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SAN FRANCISCO PRESIDIO ANNUAL TRIBAL ART SALE OCTOBER
10-11 - 2008 TRIBAL ART, TEXTILES, JEWELRY SALE BENEFITS DE YOUNG MUSEUM
San Francisco Presidio Tribal Art Show will feature art, sculpture and beads
like these little masterpieces
from the famous Himalayan tribal art dealer Robert Brundage
5 October 2008 BY PAT MURPHY found at SF
Sentinel Copyright © 2008
If you really want to have some fun this weekend in San Francisco, check out
the annual San Francisco Tribal Art Dealers annual show at the San Francisco
Presidio. The tribal art show features a sale and exhibition of art, sculpture,
textiles and jewelry from Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the Americas on Oct. 10,
11, and 12 in San Francisco’s historic Presidio in the International
Exhibition Hall, 385 Moraga Ave.
The sale and exhibition opens today Friday Oct. 10 with a Gala Preview benefiting
the De Young Museum. Tickets to the Gala Preview are $50 and include wine and
ethnic hors d’oeuvres, music, and advance opportunity to view the 14 tribal
art dealers and their displays of tribal art objects and textiles and free
re-entry to the show on Saturday and Sunday. The Gala Preview will be open from
6 to10 p.m. Tickets will be sold at the door only.
The exhibit is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11 and from 11
a.m.to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. The entrance fee for Saturday and Sunday is $10.
On Saturday, Oct. 11, Cathryn Cootner, emeritus Curator of Textiles at the Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco, will do a tour of the show and provide insights
into the quality and history of some of objects and textiles in the sale and
exhibition. Cootner is one of the world’s leading textile experts and provides
one of the most fascinating lectures and tours in San Francisco. Don’t miss
her, her expertise, and her enthusiasm for tribal arts!
Produced by San Francisco Tribal, an association of some of the world’s
most knowledgeable dealers, the show will introduce visitors to an extraordinary
selection of African masks and figures, Oceanic ceremonial and ritual objects,
Pre-Columbian ceramic sculptures and vessels, Tribal Asian textiles and
costumes, Native American art and artifacts, and shields, hats, ivories,
featherwork, and jewelry from diverse cultures all over the world.
SF Tribal members exhibiting include: Michael Auliso, Robert Brundage, B.C.
Dentan, Dave DeRoche, Erik Farrow, Zena Kruzick, Wenhua Liu, Joe Loux, Andres
Moraga, Thomas Murray, David F. Rosenthal, Vicki Shiba, Frank Wiggers, and James
Willis.
For more information on the event, visit sftribal.com.
These Bay Area dealers normally exhibit at international shows in New York in
May, Paris in September and annually at the San Francisco Tribal and Textile
Arts Show in February at Fort Mason. They have collectively put on this local
show for tribal art collectors for the past five years and it’s always a hit
with Bay Area collectors of tribal art, sculpture, masks, jewelry, beads,
textiles, and ethnographic materials.
In particular, noteworthy exhibitors this year include:
Bob Brundage, one of
America’s leading dealers of Himalayan artworks from Tibet and Nepal, artyeti.com
, always presents some of the most stunning material in his field. Brundage and
his lovely wife Alyson Butler display some of very best Himalayan objects as
well as jewelry and beads and a wonderful assortment of Tibetan furniture and
ritual items.
David F. Rosenthal,
one of the nation’s top Oceanic dealers, always has a top selection of pieces
from New Guinea and the Pacific Islands and his knowledge of the material is
exceptional.
Thomas Murray
ranks as the top of America’s Indonesian art dealers and displays a wealth of
artworks, sculpture, masks, jewelry and other Indonesian artworks.
Vicki Shiba deals in some of the most stunning and beautiful Asian artworks
and has a long history of producing some of the most striking exhibitions in her
field, vickishiba.com
Michael Auliso, the founder of the wildly popular and successful Tribalmania.com
displays a broad range of wonderful artworks from Africa, New Guinea, Asia and
the Philippines.
Eric Farrow presents
outstanding antique tribal art, weapons, swords, and shields from Indonesia, The
Philippines, Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas.
Frank Wiggers of Insulinde Indonesian Art and editor of the book, Mentawai
Art, is one of America’s leading Indonesian art dealers and
displays a wealth of material and knowledge of Indonesia and its artworks.
Wenhua Liu is
an up and coming dealer of ethnographic and tribal art from China and Asia and
she always offers an excellent selection of Chinese textiles.
Zena Kruzick, an
up-and-coming tribal art and textile dealer, presents an array of wonderful
tribal artworks from around the globe.
James Willis, the dean of Bay Area Tribal Art dealers and an internationally
recognized expert in African art, always presents one of the most spectacular
displays of African Art.
Dave DeRoche, a
major dealer in African, Pre-Columbian, and all the tribal arts since 1973,
brings a wonderful assortment of tribal arts from Africa and Latin America.
B.C. Denton, a beloved international art figure and presenter of eclectic
tribal art from around the world, always displays something that captures the
imagination and the mind.
Joe Loux specializes in ancient and historic jewelry of Asia and North Africa
and always wows the crowd with his jewelry, textiles and sculpture.
Robert Dowling, a Bay Area dealer of Pre-Columbian & Tribal Art, will
present a great selection of African, Pre-Columbian, Indonesian, and other
native ethnographic arts.
Andres Moraga, a well-regarded American dealer in rare textiles and works of
art from a variety of cultures, always presents an outstanding display of
textiles.
Don’t miss your chance to see and buy museum quality tribal art and jewelry
from some of the nation’s leading experts and dealers in tribal art at this
show in the Presidio. Last year’s show was packed and this year’s is
expected to pack them in again. Don’t miss it!
For more information on the event, visit sftribal.com.
See you later,
David Norden
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