Jude Griebel
Broken Pattern
MAIN SPACE & STE-CATHERINE
NOV. 15 - DEC. 10, 2021
This series of sculptures and drawings explores human impact on the world by merging anatomies and landscapes into single hybrid forms. The works provide fantastic understandings of eco-anxiety, visualizing rampant cycles of human consumption and the resulting detriment to both the human self and surrounding world. The mechanics of consumerism is a driving theme behind Griebel’s work, with a specific focus on the factory food system and its implications for land depletion and climate shift. The self-deprecating nature of the work softens dystopic paranoia with humour and invention, attempting to provide new access points to thinking outside of ourselves and our global predicament.
About the artist
Jude Griebel is a contemporary sculptor working between Brooklyn and Bergen, Alberta. He has completed numerous residencies including Pioneer Works, New York, ISCP NYC, The Studios of MASS MoCA, North Adams and HALLE 14, Leipzig. Recent exhibitions include the Esker Foundation, Calgary; the International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; Galerie Sturm, Nuremberg; and the Art Gallery of Alberta. Griebel is a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and his work is in collections including Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal, the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee and the Volpert Foundation, New York.
