TONY MATELLI Sleepwalker, 1997 polyester and paint, 65x20x30" / 165x51x76 cm Born in Chicago, 1971 Lives in New York Tony Matelli's impudent sculptural tableaux are a form of social critique cloaked in high-art pranksterism. Cast in resin and covered in plaster and paint, these dioramas are real enough but do not aim to fool. Matelli's works are allegorical depictions of people and things finding - or failing to find - means of survival in a world that does its very best to thwart alternatives to the norm. read more about Tony Matelli