Tuesday, Mar 15, 2016
4:00 pm PST - 5:00 pm PST
William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art
160 Overton Court
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
The Rolland Gallery presents a special lecture by Southern California art dealer and Oceanic Art expert Michael Hamson. Cal Lutheran has relied on Hamson several times for help with identification and preservation of its collection of New Guinea art and artifacts. Here he will lecture on field collecting in Papua New Guinea and the criteria his team uses to judge age, authenticity, and quality of the region’s art, as well as describing how objects in the collection were used in their original setting.
Michael Hamson is an art dealer specializing in the arts and artifacts of the South Pacific. He has a Masters degree in African and Oceanic Art History from the University of California at Santa Barbara, but credits the 46 extended field collecting trips to the more remote areas of Papua New Guinea for much of his knowledge about the art. For the past 17 years Mr. Hamson has been active in the Oceanic Art market, participating in the most prestigious tribal art shows in the world—Paris, Brussels, New York, and San Francisco. He has recently co-curated an exhibition on Sepik River Art at the Fowler Museum at UCLA and is a member of the Bower’s Museum acquisition committee.
