Gray Wielebinski
All The Wounds You Could Get, 2022
Ink on paper
36 x 25.9 cm
14 1/8 x 10 1/4 in
Framed: 45.1 x 35.2 x 4 cm
17 3/4 x 13 7/8 x 1 5/8 in
14 1/8 x 10 1/4 in
Framed: 45.1 x 35.2 x 4 cm
17 3/4 x 13 7/8 x 1 5/8 in
Gray Wielebinski’s expansive practice explores the intersections of mythology, identity, gender, and nationhood. All The Wounds You Could Get, 2022, a detailed ink on paper work, takes a particular interest...
Gray Wielebinski’s expansive practice explores the intersections of mythology, identity, gender, and nationhood. All The Wounds You Could Get, 2022, a detailed ink on paper work, takes a particular interest in expressions of power and myth-making. Iconography is drawn from medieval implements of shame and torture, Americana and athletics, and the hero is hard to distinguish from the monster. Here masculinity is in dialogue with animality; punishment with submission and desire’s potential to disrupt simple hierarchies of power.
Prominently featured are medieval shame masks – these devices of torture and humiliation, though occasionally used on men and children, were chiefly a mechanism to intimidate and control women. Shame masks were often shaped to resemble animals – a donkey signaling foolishness; a wolf, vulgarity – and anthropomorphism is a trope across Wielebinski’s practice. In collage, soft sculpture and installation, Wielebinski proposes new forms and ways of embodiment.
The athleticism of the central figure, together with the inclusion of sporting equipment, underlines another key area of exploration for the artist. Sport appeals to the artist on aesthetic grounds but also as a lens through which to explore and complicate ideas of the body, surveillance, desire, celebrity, costume and control.
Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991, Dallas) lives and works in London. He received a BA from Pomona College, Claremont, California, 2014 before completing an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include: Wielebinski’s first institutional solo exhibition The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low at ICA London, Fratricide at Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles, CA, Love and Theft, 12.26 Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; Oil and Water, Hales Gallery in London.Recent exhibitions include: group shows at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, UK; Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA; Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, IT; Bold Tendencies, London, UK; and V.O Curations, London, UK. Recent residencies include V.O Curations, City and Guilds in London in 2021 and 2019 respectively and at the Academy of Visual Arts in Hong Kong in 2018. Wielebinski’s work is in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library & Archives, CA, and the Benton Museum of Art, Claremont, CA.
Prominently featured are medieval shame masks – these devices of torture and humiliation, though occasionally used on men and children, were chiefly a mechanism to intimidate and control women. Shame masks were often shaped to resemble animals – a donkey signaling foolishness; a wolf, vulgarity – and anthropomorphism is a trope across Wielebinski’s practice. In collage, soft sculpture and installation, Wielebinski proposes new forms and ways of embodiment.
The athleticism of the central figure, together with the inclusion of sporting equipment, underlines another key area of exploration for the artist. Sport appeals to the artist on aesthetic grounds but also as a lens through which to explore and complicate ideas of the body, surveillance, desire, celebrity, costume and control.
Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991, Dallas) lives and works in London. He received a BA from Pomona College, Claremont, California, 2014 before completing an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include: Wielebinski’s first institutional solo exhibition The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low at ICA London, Fratricide at Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles, CA, Love and Theft, 12.26 Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; Oil and Water, Hales Gallery in London.Recent exhibitions include: group shows at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, UK; Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA; Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, IT; Bold Tendencies, London, UK; and V.O Curations, London, UK. Recent residencies include V.O Curations, City and Guilds in London in 2021 and 2019 respectively and at the Academy of Visual Arts in Hong Kong in 2018. Wielebinski’s work is in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library & Archives, CA, and the Benton Museum of Art, Claremont, CA.