NADA House 2024

Massey Klein Gallery is pleased to participate in NADA House 2024 with new and recent sculptures by Jude Griebel.

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.