Tony Matelli is an American contemporary artist who creates uncanny objects that are at once seductive, illusory, comical, and slightly unsettling. Incorporating figurative, botanical, and abstract forms, his bronze sculptures feature ropes frozen in mid-air, as if the ropes were dropped on a plinth and cast just before collapsing into inert coils. Other works rely on unusual juxtapositions, such as his weeds series in which plants sprout from the space between gallery walls and floors. Across his oeuvre, and particularly in his mirror paintings, Matelli discards traditional genre categories in favor of experiential concerns.