R. Max Gavrich (b. San Francisco) is an artist, writer, and educator. His work addresses the relation between rituals of male bonding and the performative body. Through photographs, video, and installation, Gavrich explores the dichotomies of play and violence, force and care and the way that these energies come together, fall apart and eventually fail. His most recent work investigates the concepts of dissymmetry, chirality and “handedness” via the body and material objects.