Los Angeles Asian & Tribal Arts Show at the Santa Monica Civic including lectures(11/10 & 11th, 07)
CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART STARS JUXTAPOSED WITH MUSEUM-QUALITY ASIAN & TRIBAL ARTS AT
THE LOS ANGELES ASIAN & TRIBAL ARTS SHOW
Opening Night Preview to Benefit the Fowler Textile Council of the Fowler Museum at UCLA
The Los Angeles Asian & Tribal Arts Show
Santa Monica Civic Center
November 10-11, 2007
(Los Angeles – June 2007) This November marks the return of an event known to be a favorite among arts professionals and the culture curious. The Los Angeles Asian and Tribal Art Show, now in its 17th year, is taking place November 10-11, 2007 at the Santa Monica Civic Center. Considered one of the West Coast’s leading upscale art shows this event has earned its reputation by featuring a wide selection of internationally renowned art dealers/galleries specializing in antique and contemporary Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Central South Asian) and Tribal (African, New Guinea and The Americas) art.
In addition to museum-quality antiques, two contemporary art exhibitions will be on display. One of the special exhibitions will feature the works of noted craftsman; Jon Eric Riis while the other will be a group show of prominent Asian artists, curated by the George Billis Gallery (NY & LA).
The LAATA offers visitors a more sensory experience than a traditional day-trip to a museum or gallery. Visitors are encouraged to see, ask questions and view unobstructed pieces, which are of museum quality and available for purchase.
Tapestry Echoes from Tibet: The Works of Jon Eric Riis on Display
Famed contemporary fiber artist Jon Eric Riis will unveil a new selection of works in a special exhibition at the show. Entirely new beadworks and Riis’ world-renowned and much sought-after Tapestry Coats will be featured. Jon Eric Riis’ tapestries have been on exhibit in major museums including the MET.
Riis, who was recently featured in the PBS series, “Craft in America” states, “I attempt to push the tapestry genre, as I investigate issues of identity, life and the human condition. I am also interested in the notions of beauty using myths and historic textiles as points of departure. In many of my tapestry works, I utilize precious materials such as metallic and silk thread, often with added embellishments of freshwater pearls, crystal and coral beads”
The selected works of Jon Eric Riis will be on display and available for purchase beginning Friday November 9th at the Opening Night Preview to benefit the Fowler Textile Council of the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
A Selection of Asian Contemporary: Curated by George Billis Gallery
The prominent bi-coastal George Billis Gallery will curate a contemporary art exhibition featuring accomplished young Asian artists who are working in oil/latex and mixed media paintings and sculpture. Featured artists include Ke-Sook Lee, Mary Ijichi, Kunihiko Maehara, Sook Myoung Yoon and Niizeki Hiromi.
Sugar Brown, gallery director, states, “As biennials and international art fairs proliferate, the world art market has experienced a cross pollination of once polarized aesthetic viewpoints. Beginning as early as the 1960’s, Asian Contemporary artwork began a journey that would lead it to the hybrid it has become today. Where tension once lied between local artistic traditions and the quickly growing interest and adaptation of experimental avant-garde forms of expression, there now is a fluid sharing of these concepts. A diverse range of work created by contemporary Asian artists has hit the art market in the last decade, drawing intense praise and attention from both collectors of contemporary art and curators of landmark exhibitions. “
Lectures and Dealer/Gallery Talks
The Los Angeles Asian and Tribal Art Show will feature an informative and inspiring slide lecture series. Both visual and intellectual, the series will provide an opportunity for the general public to meet with and ask questions to prominent art media as well as notable art and history experts. Lecturers include, Roy W. Hamilton, Curator for Asian and Pacific Collection at
The Fowler Museum, Mary Polly Nooter Roberts, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Fowler Museum and Jeff Marinelli, radio host and publisher of Art and Living Magazine and a representative from California Homes Magazine.
A second, less formal set of Dealer/Gallery Talks allow visitors to meet and discuss with several of the internationally renowned exhibitors that not only collect in the field but are also among the most noted scholarly experts on Asian and Tribal art.
The complete schedule of lecture series and the Exhibitor follows as an appendix.
Fowler Museum Benefit Preview Opening
The Los Angeles Asian and Tribal Art Show will be launched with a benefit for the Fowler Textile Council of the Fowler Museum at UCLA on Friday November 9, 6pm – 9pm. This will also be the first opportunity to view both the Jon Eric Riis and George Billis exhibitions.
The Los Angeles Asian & Tribal Art Show is open to the public Saturday November 10, from 11:00am-7:00pm and Sunday, November 11 from 12:00pm-5:00pm. There will be no admittance after 4:30pm on Sunday. General admission is $12 per person; please call for details regarding the opening night benefit preview. The show is held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main Street in Santa Monica. For additional information, the public should call (310) 455-2886, or visit www.caskeylees.com.
For press information contact Agnes Gomes-Koizumi AGK Media Group at (323) 937-5488 or [email protected].
The Los Angeles Asian & Tribal Arts Show is sponsored by Art & Living Magazine, Orientations, Tribal Arts, Art & Antiques, California Homes , Malibu Times Magazine and Luxe Magazine.
About the Fowler Textile Council of the Fowler Museum at UCLA
The Fowler Museum at UCLA is the only museum in Los Angeles exclusively dedicated to exploring non-Western arts and cultures, past and present. Exhibitions and programs cover a wide range of global artistic expression, from historic traditions to contemporary work by artists from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Native and Latin America, and their respective diasporas. They are intended to excite, instruct, involve, and challenge visitors in the exploration of global artistic expression and to promote lifelong learning. Since 2002, the Fowler is one of the few museums in Los Angeles to be free of charge to all visitors.
The Museum’s first interest-specific member group, the Fowler Textile Council (FTC) offers unique opportunities to explore the Museum’s world-renowned textile collections. Programs exclusively for members include: Expert-led workshops on managing your personal collection; visits to private and public collections not open to the general pubic; invitations to members-only exhibition previews and walkthroughs; lectures on the burgeoning role of textiles in today’s art world; the ever-popular Textile Roundtable Series; activities to support the Museum’s textile acquisitions fund; special projects to assist Fowler Museum staff.
Lecture Schedule
Saturday, November 10
1pm: "Material Choices: Bast & Leaf Fiber Textiles" by Roy W. Hamilton Curator of Asian & Pacific Collections at the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
3pm: "How to incorporate Tribal Art into Your Art Collection." by Jeff Marinelli, Publisher Art & Living Magazine.
Sunday, November 11
1pm: “Inscribing Meaning: Writing & Graphic Systems in African Art." by Mary Nooter Roberts Deputy Director & Chief Curator of the Fowler Museum.
3pm: “The California Bungalow, An Infusion of Asian Design- Zen & Tao.” by Ken Lowe A.S.I.D Bungalow Spirit/ Design Principal.
Exhibitor Talks
Saturday, November 10
2:15pm: "Embroidery, Tapestry & Brocade during the Qing Dynasty, China by Jon Eric Riis.
4:15pm: "Motifs & Meanings behind Dayak Artifacts" by Mark. A Johnson.
Sunday, November 11
2:15pm: "The Living National Treasure Series" by Kazuo Kuwabara.
4:15pm: "A discussion of Rare Antique Beads & Amulets" by Abdul Wais.