Grace
and
Chaos
The Art of river hawkins
THE WORK
ART
Paintings, drawings, prints, and other evidence of a questionable imagination.
THE WORK
BOOKS & WRITING
Books, stories, philosophy, and other attempts to make sense of the whole ridiculous thing.
THE WORK
MEZCAL & EXPERIENCES
Agave, mezcal, cocktails, education, and a lifetime spent studying what happens across a bar.
THE WORK
BARMAN
Restaurants, bars, cocktails, and the strange art of creating places people actually want to be.
ART
Beauty and destruction. Sacred and profane. Humor, violence, chaos and grace.
Original paintings and mixed-media work exploring the contradictions of being human.
THE BARS
I’ve never been interested in building normal restaurants.
The places I create are meant to be experiences—sometimes beautiful, sometimes strange, sometimes a little off-putting. The art, music, food, cocktails and atmosphere are all part of the same idea: give people something they weren’t expecting.
From traditional Mexican culture to Chicano street art, South American steakhouses to cocktails that barely resemble cocktails, each place has its own identity and its own particular kind of madness.
Come see what I’ve built.