Alisa Lagamna, Curator, said, "What Man Ray does in that photograph is what we're addressing with all the works in this exhibition. Taking the masks out of Africa in a sense elevating it as a work of sculpture and playing with it as a source of inspiration in it's right."

America artist Willie Cole has three pieces on display, in one he uses bicycle parts to interpret the historical significance's of the African mask.

For Cole, being a part of the exhibition is meaningful.

Willie Cole, Artist, said, "I am standing, straddling I guess the past, present and the future were I am pulling forth some sort of spiritual connection I like to believe with my accent past, you know before Western world. But I am also, and I've been told by other curators, tapping into modernism as well as contemporary conceptual art."

The works will be on display in New York until June.

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