NEW ART GALLERY FEATURING TRIBAL ARTS OPENS IN HALF MOON BAY - TRIBALMANIA GALLERY TO FEATURE AFRICAN, OCEANIC, ASIAN ART
25 December 2009HALF MOON BAY, California —Tribalmania, a pioneer of international online sales and exhibitions of tribal and ethnographic art, has opened a gallery to expand its growing art business.
Michael Auliso, owner of Tribalmania.com, this month opened Tribalmania Gallery at 152 West Point Ave. in Half Moon Bay (Princeton by the Sea). The gallery phone is 650-728-8040. Gallery showings are by appointment. Call 831-419-6220 to schedule. You can join the gallery’s email list by writing to sales@tribalmania.com.
Michael Auliso, founder of Tribalmania Gallery
and the late great tribal art collector Saul Stanoff.
Tribalmania.com started selling tribal art online in 1999. The website features art from Africa, New Guinea, Oceania, Asia, and Aboriginal and North America Indian art. It offers a wide range of sculpture, masks, textiles, weapons and shields from ancient and traditional cultures from around the World as well as ceremonial/ ritual objects related to shamanism. The website has had more than 2.5 million visitors and averages 664 daily visitors to its site.
The Tribalmania website also offers written reviews of domestic and international tribal art shows, important collector/ dealer interviews as well as quality antique tribal art from New Guinea, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Aboriginal (Australian), Indonesia, Africa, Asia, the Philippines and Native American (Northwest Coast) art.
Tribalmania’s new 1,400 sq. ft. gallery housed in a striking contemporary design building will offer the same artworks that it shows on line as well as “displaying and selling more complex and larger pieces that get lost on the web because of the internet’s limited dimensions in showing intricate artworks. Our focus is always on quality, rarity, authenticity and provenance,” Auliso said.
Auliso believes the bricks and mortar gallery is the logical evolution for his business and a new way to satisfy the growth of his online clientele.
“Having a physical presence will give us more meaningful personal contact with clients and provides us with the opportunity to educate new ones through an easily accessible gallery location,” he said.
“Also, I think we may be the only tribal art gallery in America that is located on a beach,” added Auliso, who says the popular restaurant Barbara’s Fish Trap, the Shoppes at Harbor Village and the famous surf spot Maverick’s are his neighbors.
The gallery is featuring a superb selection of Aboriginal bark paintings from the collection of Dr. G. Alan Solem, the former curator of the Field Museum in Chicago.
Auliso is a member of Antique Tribal Arts Dealers Association and San Francisco Tribal, both are associations of prominent tribal art dealers. He is an annual participant in San Francisco, New York, Brussels, and Paris tribal shows.
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