Canadian artist Jude Griebel’s sculptures merge human forms with those of animals, insects, architecture, and the natural environment.
Based between Alberta, Canada and Brooklyn, New York, Griebel creates detailed figurative sculptures and drawings that visualize our entanglement with the surrounding world. He is inspired by his family’s farming history and work within the international slow food movement.
His work often explores humanity’s conflicted relationship with the natural world and the impact of ecological collapse. Above, from The Distance Between exhibition – see a 3D closeup tour here.
Griebel works with myriad materials including clay, textiles, hand-carved woods, and papier-mâché, and employs a combination of techniques such as modeling, carving, and constructing to produce his sculptural forms.
Walking a line between the grotesque, the tender, and the humorous, Griebel’s work reflects on the mechanics of consumerism, the erasure of living identity, and interspecific relationships – from his artist page at Massey Klein Gallery in New York.
Below, Griebel talks on video about his work for Revenants, his 2024 solo exhibition.
Jude Griebel at Massey Klein Gellery, NYC, here.
His website, here.
His extensive list of exhibitions and awards, here.
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