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Valeska Soares
Soares, an installation artist and sculptor, hides behind a "paranoia mask," a needlepoint frame covered with wiggly eyes.

Franco Mondini-Ruiz and Susan Freedman
Installation artist Mondini-Ruiz designed both his silver moon mask and the gold sun mask held by Freedman, president of the Public Art Fund.

Nadia Roden and Terence de Pietro
Roden, a painter and designer, created a mask inspired by a photograph in which a model wears butterflies as eye shadow. For De Pietro, a woman's footwear designer at Cole Haan, she constructed a mask edged in lace that reminded him of the macabre illustrations of 19th-century artist Aubrey Beardsley.

Dave McKenzie
Performance artist McKenzie wears binoculars he made out of a mailing tube.

Anissa Mack
Mack, a conceptual artist, wore a piñata-like papier-mâché mask—a cross between the Statue of Liberty and a Christmas tree, with a little Cinco de Mayo thrown in.

Han Feng and Jonathan Hawke
Han Feng, an artist and clothing designer who's dreaming up costumes for a London production of Madama Butterfly, made operatic "king and queen of the night" masks for herself and Hawke, a writer.