Massey Klein Gallery is pleased to participate in NADA House 2024 with new and recent sculptures by Jude Griebel. Displayed on pedestals in an indoor communal space, the gallery’s presentation will be the artist’s first time exhibiting at a NADA fair. For press inquiries or questions regarding works available, please email info@masseyklein.com.
Jude Griebel explores the crisis of planetary collapse. With a focus on contemporary human behaviors such as consumption, the factory food system, land depletion, and waste production, Griebel’s works are objective yet fantastical depictions of humanity’s complex connection to the surrounding world. By weaving symbolism, diverse cultural references, and scientific reality the artist produces intricate portrayals of cyclical human consumption, eco-anxiety, and planetary decline, encouraging viewers to scrutinize their entanglement with the world and question destructive habitual behaviors.
Griebel's series Revenants draws on animated foods from pop culture and history to reflect on the mechanics of consumerism, the erasure of living identity, and interspecific relationships. The presentation of his mollusk sculptures on Governors Island is distinct, speaking to contemporary consumption habits on the site of a historical estuary, and the home of the Billion Oyster Project environmental restoration site.
Jude Griebel holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and an MFA in Sculpture and Ceramics from Concordia University and has recently been awarded the Folly Tree Arboretum's Dancing Tree Award, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and an Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant. Past residencies include AIR 3331, Pioneer Works, MASS MoCA Studios, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, and Banff Center for the Arts.
Recent institutional exhibitions include the University of Victoria Legacy Galleries, the International Museum of Surgical Science, the Rochester Center for Contemporary Art, the Holter Museum of Art, the Esker Foundation, the Whyte Museum, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Art Gallery of Alberta.
Noteworthy press includes Galleries West, Hyperallergic, Canadian Art Magazine, Art + Design Magazine, and The National Gallery of Canada Magazine. Griebel’s work is in permanent collections at Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Art Gallery of Alberta, Frans Masereel Centrum, Colart Contemporary Canadian Art Collection, Sakima Art Museum, Equitable Bank Group, Silpakorn University, Silvercorp Mining, and Volpert Foundation. Having grown up on a family farm in rural Alberta, the artist now lives and works in New York City.
