Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark is an influential artist of the 1970s, known for his site-specific works involving sculptural interventions in architecture and urban spaces. One of his most noted works is Splitting (1974), a video recording Matta-Clark and an assistant cutting through the entirety of an abandoned suburban home with a chainsaw. Matta-Clark’s pieces are often film, video or photographic records of his interventions, or involve reclaimed structural segments of sites, presented as sculpture.

Additionally Matta-Clark was a cofounder of FOOD, an artist-run restaurant offering a radical menu and vital community for New York’s downtown artists from 1971 to 1973.