Art Forum

Excerpt:
Across the way, at Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Lee Materazzi’s crisp photographs depict bizarre tableaux in which the artist’s body and its surroundings are covered completely by segments of colored or metallic paper, tape, and stickers. In Bust, 2025, two exposed nipples peek out from a field of green and white marble patterning, while in Baby Blue, 2025, her torso appears bent over a chair while a soda cup sits on the small of her back, all of which have been obscured by what appear to be blue Post-its. The most compelling photos, however, were devoid of the human form: Tangle, 2025, depicting a folding chair clad in green marble paper, interrupted by the shock of a neon-orange extension cord that drapes over its edge and into a tangled pile on the floor—it too partially papered in the marble motif—gleefully sublimates its discrete elements into a pleasantly indecipherable allover composition.