Yesterday I went over to Wellesley College to see the infamous Sleepwalker statue! I wanted to share some photos with you!!
Also, I did a bit of research on the artist himself, his name is Tony Matelli, and while I found his website (www.tonymatelli.com) which has a large selection of his work, but his artist statement seems to be absent! But I did find that he does a lot of work like this all entitled The Sleepwalker, different genders, and different ages. He also does a lot of these hyper-realistic pieces. He uses different materials for each of his statues, some of them are bronze cast with paint, others are fiberglass with paint, and then he also uses epoxy and paint to achieve this amount of realism! If you want to go see the sculpture it is a bit inside the campus, but it is on the main road so if you drive through campus you will see it! Tony Matelli: New Gravity will be on exhibit from Feb. 5 through May 11 in the Bronfman and Chandler galleries, and Feb. 5 through July 20 in the Jobson and Tanner galleries. The exhibition is free and open to the general public.Here is an interview with the artist about this piece!
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