Exceptional Works: Gordon Matta-Clark

A central figure of the downtown New York art scene in the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943?–?1978) pioneered a radical approach to art-making that directly engaged the urban environment and the communities within it. The present unique collage relates to Splitting (1974), one of the artist's most well-known architectural cuts, in which Matta-Clark laboriously sliced open an abandoned two-story house that was slated for demolition.

Don’t miss the last chance to see Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L: Impossible Failures, on view at 52 Walker through this Saturday, April 1.

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