Gray Wielebinski

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991 Dallas, TX, USA) lives and works in London, UK. In Wielebinski’s expansive practice, incorporating installation, video, drawing, performance, collage, sculpture, and more, he explores intersecting themes of power, nationhood, desire and identity. The process of collaging runs through his practice in many forms – reconfiguring and transforming iconography and visual codes, his work interrogates dominant frameworks and belief systems and proposes alternatives. Continuously attentive to the fraught status of American mythology and landscape, his recent work has focused on surveillance, strategy, and secrecy, particularly as these intersect with questions of gender, race, sexuality, and the social.

Artwork

• The Red Sun is High, The Blue Low, 2023. multi-media installation with six renderings on vinyl of film stills from Querelle, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982; vinyl tape on floor; emulsion paint on windows; four-channel audio; overall dimensions variable.
• The Autumnal City, 2024. Water-based paint, steel, digital print on acrylic
• Exhibition, 2023. plaster, metal, jesmonite, plastic, paint
• Privacy Screen #2, 2023. steel
• Pain and Glory, 2022. Steel, coloured perspex, mechanical rodeo bull with fibreglass body, leather saddle and cowhide jacket, custom-printed inflatable mat, electric air fan, operating console and audio
• The Sum Total of The Things They Aren't Telling Us, 2023. MDF, foam, fabric, paint,
• Love and Theft / Theft and Love, 2023. Milk paint, chroma key paint on paper bag in artist frame,
• The End #1-5, 2023. acrylic on canvas in metal artist frames
• Stigma, 2023. bronze
• Reactive Figure (Texas Star), 2023. Powder Coated Steel
• "The Bunker" and "Two-Way Mirror", 2023. Two-Way Mirror, 2023, bright steel, 106.7 × 198.1 ×2.5 cm. 8 The Bunker, 2023, installation with sound panels, LED lights, zinc alloy lockboxes, interactive digital control panel, dimensions variable.
• Reactive Figure (Spinner), 2023. Powder Coated Steel
• Reactive Figure (V-Shaped Stabile), 2023. powder coated steel
• Reactive Figure (Duelling Tree), 2023. powder coated steel
• Metal Bond, 2022. ink on paper
• Chair, 2022. Ink on Paper
• Fratricide, 2023. wood, paint, paper, lacquer
• Pinning, 2023. wood, paint, paper, lacquer
• There is Still Time...Brother, 2023. wood, paint, paper, lacquer
• Us, 2023. wood, paint, paper, lacquer
• Surrogate, 2023. wood, paint, paper, vinyl, lacquer
• Body Double, 2023. wood, paint, paper, lacquer, duct tape, shopping bag, cotton
• Prerogative, 2022. handmade leather plaited whip, steel
• Exhibition, 2023. jesmonite, wood, metal, oxidized paint, vinyl
• Slip The Yoke, 2023. UV print, oil based stain, acrylic, wood and metal
• Bittersweet, 2023. knitted acrylic
• Privacy Screen, 2022
• Pumping, 2021. steel rocking horse
• Baby #1 , Baby #2, 2021. cast glass, cast concrete, custom steel stand
• Bard, 2021. engraved steel
• Hoof and Spur #1 and #2, 2021. Wood with cast resin, leather, cotton and denim
• Thick Skin, 2021. knitted acrylic
• Shame Mask, 2021. oxidized steel