Cavin-Morris Gallery is pleased to celebrate this year’s Tribal Art Week in New York City with an exhibition of non-classical masks and sculptures from Nepal, India, and Bhutan called FACESHIFTING II: Animistic Masks from the Himalayas.
Our first Faceshifting exhibition in 2014 featured masks from all over the world. FACESHIFTING II focuses on a masking phenomenon that is under-documented (especially in English), yet is incredibly rich and varied. There is almost an art brut quality to the masks, as each is most often carved by the user creatively within very broad guidelines. The masks, …