Waxing Gibbous Moon
12 days old
Mark Andrew Gravel
16 August 2009Cassie McGettigan
One day Gravel was wandering through our old neck of the woods in search of the video transfer place when he came across a window with his name in glitter and neon stretched across the glass. He came into Gravel & Gold thinking that perhaps a long lost cousin had started a mysterious tiny enterprise, and who was this Gold character? We’ve been friends since.
Mark Andrew Gravel is a conceptual artist working with urban and agrarian foodways. His bean-based temporary restaurant happenings and media projects move fluidly between social sculpture, relational aesthetics, urban intervention and cultural production and seek to transform social spaces as a means to engage society with the sensual, emotional, moral and economic values of eating. Mark currently lives and works between Brooklyn NY and San Francisco CA.
[...] Mark Andrew Gravel will be preparing a 5-course temporary restaurant happening at Gravel & Gold. There will be two seatings, at 6pm and 8pm, for the laughably worth it price of $20 a head. Please RSVP at http://www.bouwerie.com to reserve your place at the table. Related Maker: Mark Andrew Gravel, [...]