Massey Klein Gallery is pleased to announce our participation in NADA New York with new and recent works by Jude Griebel. NADA New York 2025 will be open to the public from Wednesday, May 7 through Sunday, May 11, with a VIP and Press Preview on Wednesday, May 7. For inquiries regarding the fair, including 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 visualizations of humanity’s entanglement with 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 sculptures from his Falling Sky series anthropomorphize animal species, usually considered benign but whose habitats have been pushed to the brink of extinction, with each presenting a dire and apocalyptic warning. Constructed onsite at Leitrim Sculpture Centre and carved from found woods, the works are finished in clay putties developed for use in the taxidermy industry, before being painted. Walking a line between the grotesque, the subversive, and the humorous, Griebel draws on art historical traditions of the anthropomorphic body to reflect on environmental degradation, interspecific relationships, and climate collapse.
Recent institutional exhibitions include Leitrim Sculpture Center, Rochester Center for Contemporary Art, Whyte Museum, International Museum of Surgical Science, El Museo de Los Sures, Holter Museum of Art, Esker Foundation, and 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, Le Carmel Pamiers, Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary, 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.
