(1943–1978, New York) was a visual artist. He worked in photography, film, video, performance, drawing, and sculpture in the form of large-scale interventions into existing architecture. He explored the metamorphic possibilities of cooking, beginning by frying Polaroid photographs in oil with gold leaf. He was one of the co-founders of FOOD, a combined restaurant / performance piece. He made Garbage Wall, a prototype shelter for the homeless and was active in building SoHo as an artists’ community. During the 1970s, Matta-Clark made the works for which he is best known: his “anarchitecture.” These were temporary works created by sawing and carving sections out of buildings, most of which were scheduled to be destroyed.