For Matta-Clark, graffiti was the "people’s art." Gordon Matta-Clark, "Graffiti Photoglyph," 1973. (Courtesy of the estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and David Zwirner) ...

Gordon Matta-Clark didn’t just chainsaw holes into buildings, radically transforming the experience of their spaces. He also split a house in half and celebrated Earth Day by making a wall of ...

In addition to Matta-Clark’s photographs, prints, drawings, and sculptures, Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect includes rarely seen materials from the artist’s archive, as well as immersive film ...

This month, the sprawling exhibition “Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect” takes over the Bronx Museum of the Arts — a fitting survey for an artist who used the city as his material. Pictured ...

Is it possible to make a drawing with a chain saw? Gordon Matta-Clark did. The output from his nine-year career was not large -- the New York artist died young, from pancreatic cancer in the ...

A little more than seven years ago, when the Museum of Contemporary Art was preparing to expand into a townhouse immediately to the west, the groundbreaking was turned into an exhibition thanks to … ...

In 1975, Gordon Matta-Clark, dangling from a beam on a scrap of plywood sheeting, used an acetylene torch to cut an airplane-size crescent in the steel wall of an abandoned warehouse on New York ...

In 1972, artist Gordon Matta-Clark began entering abandoned apartment buildings in the South Bronx and cutting holes in the floors. His cuts were strategic: neat rectangles whose clean lines ...

Best known for his monumental cuts, holes, apertures, and excisions to the facades of derelict homes and historic buildings in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, and abroad, Gordon Matta-Clark's work ...

In 1974, artist Gordon Matta-Clark set to work on a performance art piece. He took his chainsaw to an abandoned house in New Jersey and carefully, deliberately, cut the home down the middle. Once that ...