NYC Tribal Art Week
published: 2010, May 17
written by Dave DeRoche:
»They created and coordinated a NYC Tribal Art Week, May 11-16, allowing collectors, scholars, dealers, and aficionados to get their needed visual -- and perhaps collecting – fix.
On display and for sale by about 30 dealers around the Upper East Side and Midtown of New York City was an arresting array of authentic and stunning artworks of Africa, Oceania, and The Americas, including Pre-Columbian art.
Manhattan’s eight public walk-in tribal art galleries and three auction houses were all participating, as were 11 local private dealers, five European dealers, and two tribal art dealers from the West Coast. There were about 20 venues where fine tribal art could be viewed, free and open to the public.
Two of the exhibitors traveling the longest distance east and west to show their treasures are Dave DeRoche of San Francisco and David Zemanek of Wurzburg, Germany. Both will be exhibiting at Art for Eternity, a little gem of a gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Another friendly and knowledgeable dealer to meet at the AFE gallery was Sebastian Fernandez, a private New Yorker gallerist with degrees in anthropology, art, and business; Sebastian also runs a foundation exhibiting and researching the paintings of his late father, the noted Cuban artist Agustin Fernandez.
Gallery Director Howard Nowes, well known for his expertise in Pre-Columbian art and in Antiquities, "leaped at the chance to invite both Davids to show here when I heard that the annual Armory show was cancelled".
David Zemanek is the fastest-rising wunderkind in our field, having expanded to running four big tribal auctions a year while every other auction house is shrinking.
And Dave DeRoche not only brought never-seen artworks from the old private collections that he is into on the West Coast, but he kept his prices as friendly as his demeanor and placed a lot of pieces with both collectors and dealers. He’s a real draw.
»They created and coordinated a NYC Tribal Art Week, May 11-16, allowing collectors, scholars, dealers, and aficionados to get their needed visual -- and perhaps collecting – fix.
On display and for sale by about 30 dealers around the Upper East Side and Midtown of New York City was an arresting array of authentic and stunning artworks of Africa, Oceania, and The Americas, including Pre-Columbian art.
Manhattan’s eight public walk-in tribal art galleries and three auction houses were all participating, as were 11 local private dealers, five European dealers, and two tribal art dealers from the West Coast. There were about 20 venues where fine tribal art could be viewed, free and open to the public.
Two of the exhibitors traveling the longest distance east and west to show their treasures are Dave DeRoche of San Francisco and David Zemanek of Wurzburg, Germany. Both will be exhibiting at Art for Eternity, a little gem of a gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Another friendly and knowledgeable dealer to meet at the AFE gallery was Sebastian Fernandez, a private New Yorker gallerist with degrees in anthropology, art, and business; Sebastian also runs a foundation exhibiting and researching the paintings of his late father, the noted Cuban artist Agustin Fernandez.
Gallery Director Howard Nowes, well known for his expertise in Pre-Columbian art and in Antiquities, "leaped at the chance to invite both Davids to show here when I heard that the annual Armory show was cancelled".
David Zemanek is the fastest-rising wunderkind in our field, having expanded to running four big tribal auctions a year while every other auction house is shrinking.
And Dave DeRoche not only brought never-seen artworks from the old private collections that he is into on the West Coast, but he kept his prices as friendly as his demeanor and placed a lot of pieces with both collectors and dealers. He’s a real draw.
