Menagerie of Disappearance

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Jude Griebel, “ Dismantled World,” 2023

carved wood, bio-resin, air-drying clays, acrylic, 42” x 24” x 28” (Photo credit: Blaine Campbell) (courtesy of the Museum)

The Menagerie of Disappearance unites four unique artists, each employing diverse mediums to explore a common theme. Through photography, textiles, sculpture, and drawing, these artists provoke contemplation of our evolving environment. With an international presence, they join together to collectively narrate the tale of our troubled relationships with the creatures and environments around us.

Highlighting the tension between perceived life and what is lifeless through a series of taxidermy raptors, Eva Brandl showcases photographic work honed over a forty-year career. Brandl invites viewers to parse out hinted narratives in her work that she’s sown through the use of staged backgrounds and forced perspectives.

Jude Griebel’s monolithic towers of miniatures are complex structures that serve to highlight themes of waste, excess, and lived experiences balanced against the obvious amount of time and care needed to create each creature. His attention to detail and the size of each work invite closer scrutiny by viewers to identify the individual within the mass.

Tamara Kostianovsky transforms repurposed textiles into sculptural carcasses, drawing lines between consumerism, fast fashion, and the relationships between humans and animals. Currently based in New York, Kostianovsky has been creating textile sculptures that delicately walk the line between engaging and shocking for twenty years.

Inspired by the private collections housed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Lorraine Simms has created a series of highly detailed and beautifully haunting graphite drawings of shadows cast by the skulls and bones of endangered animals.