Henry Mattei

Sculpture and painting · Brooklyn, New York

The spiritual life
of an object.

Presence returns through forms, raised paint and patient work of making one mark at a time.

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Turquoise dots and orange rounded motifs cover a black horned sculpture.
Cemí I, 2024View sculpture

Portfolio 26

Selected work

6 works shown

The practice

One dot at a time.

One mark finds its place beside another. Slowly, the surface gathers the rhythm of its making: moments of steadiness, wandering attention, and return. Mattei’s spiritual inquiry takes on color and texture, developing a spirit of its own.

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Close view of pointed sculptural forms receiving a yellow layer of paint.
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