Jude Griebel: Nature Bends for You presents new Vitreous China ceramics made following a residency at Kohler Pottery Studios, merging human forms with the natural world in ways that are simultaneously amusing and troubling. Shining green hands enclose a cob of corn; oranges sacrifice themselves to juicing; flowers self-amputate; a fried egg teeters on Giacometti-thin legs. Griebel deploys anthropomorphism not as corporate cute-ification but as a wake-up call — restoring the magical thinking of childhood that once recognized everything as alive, before rational adulthood stripped sentience from creation.
