Nino Mier Gallery 1

At Tony Matelli’s show at Nino Mier, the artist is present, admiring his show, wearing a humble sweatshirt and khakis dappled with paint. Look closer, and you’ll notice that the artist’s head has been ceremoniously severed from his body and has begun to slide off. Luckily, the hyper-realistic figure is in fact made of silicone and various prosthetics that create an extremely life-like approximation of Matelli (upon looking into the sculpture’s eyes, I was convinced for a minute that it…