Festival Pavilion
The San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia and the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show return to the Festival Pavilion on successive weekends beginning February 2. Both have special preview opening night festivities.
The Asian Gala benefits the Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture. The Tribal Gala benefits the galleries for Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas as well as the Textiles galleries in the de Young Museum.
The West Coast’s premier Asian show features museum-quality art from more than 80 of the world’s top galleries specializing in Pacific Asian art. The exhibition provides an opportunity to view or purchase such objects as jewelry and paintings from India, bronzes from Nepal, robes and porcelain from China, kimonos and prints from Japan, ceremonial objects from Indonesia, and ceramics from Korea. The show features a special retail exhibition of Cambodian silk Ikats, which includes the luminous weavings known as pidon and sampot chawn kbunr (textiles worn by royals).
The opening night Gala on February 1, lit by colorful lanterns, has Chinese stilt-walkers and Lion Dancers as well as a first look at the exhibition.
![Standing ceramic figure of a woman holding an offering bowl. Jalisco, Mexico [200 BC-AD 200] Courtesy: Dave De Roche](/features/2007/02/images/03_120x151.jpg "Standing ceramic figure of a woman holding an offering bowl. Jalisco, Mexico [200 BC-AD 200] Courtesy: Dave De Roche") The following weekend, more than 100 top international dealers and galleries display the best in fiber and textile art at the internationally renowned San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show. The show specializes in unique historic and contemporary art including African and Oceanic sculpture and masks, Central and South American pottery and folk art, Mexican paintings and ceramics, New Guinea sculpture and weapons, and Spanish Colonial Art. Attendees also have the chance to view and purchase Native American pottery, blankets, beadwork, and basketry, as well as Middle Eastern and Indian jewelry and textiles. The tapestries of Jon Eric Riis also are on display.
The opening night Gala is on February 8. For more information on both shows and Gala information, check the What's Happening section, or visit www.caskeylees.com.
— Ron Tierney
Images:
"Dance" woodblock print by Daniel Kelly (top). Courtesy: Michael Verne
Standing ceramic figure of a woman holding an offering bowl. Jalisco, Mexico [200 BC-AD 200] Courtesy: Dave De Roche |
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