Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York
T he words "modern" and "African art" are rarely used together. African art as usually identified as traditional art: sculpted masks, statues, in the same style they were done for hundreds of years. One of the galleries attempting to change this is the Contemporary African Art Gallery in Manhattan , New York City. Founder Bill Karg is an architect, and he lived and worked for over five years in Africa , working on low-income self-built housing, as a consultant for various organizations, such as USAID, the United Nations, the World Bank, and various African governments. El Anatsui wall hanging While he was in Africa , he started collecting the work of contemporary local artists, and in doing so, met them and learned about their work. He realized that many were well-known, well-collected, and often shown in Europe but were virtually unknown in the United States . Karg felt that this situation...