WALK in looking straight ahead and Grouchy Gabe’s Grill looks like an ordinary deli, with its regiment of iced tea drinks in the cooler, a rack dripping with bags of potato chips and a glass case with a torso of turkey poised to be sliced.
But let your eyes drift leftward and you have entered an avant-garde gallery, with the abstract works of one fittingly named Benoit Bussiere featured on the wall until Jan. 15 and other artists waiting to be exhibited. One can be forgiven for wondering if the deli counter itself is an ironic Warholesque sculpture, or perhaps a whimsical piece of performance art.