Gryphon Rue is a composer, artist, and curator working across disciplines. Member of the audiovisual duo Rue Bainbridge, performs with Merche Blasco and others. Devisor of Strange Attractor (pub. Inventory Press & Ballroom Marfa, 2019), an interfusion of images, texts and conversations between artists, poets and ecologists. Curates independently and occasionally with Calder Foundation. Holds a regular program with Montez Press Radio. Films distributed by The Film-Makers’ Cooperative.
Works internationally
Based in Brooklyn, NY
Write to me: gryphonrue@gmail.com
Strange Attractor explores the stochastic topological dynamics of lived existence. Contributors: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Thomas Ashcraft, Robert Buck, Alexander Calder, Beatrice Gibson, Phillipa Horan, Channa Horwitz, Lucky Dragons, Mark Lombardi, Herbert Matter, Haroon Mirza, Douglas Ross, Elias Sime, Iannis Xenakis, as well as texts and conversations by poet Bernadette Mayer, media art historian Douglas Kahn, tropical ecologist Merlin Sheldrake, novelist Chloe Aridjis, economic sociologist Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, and Gryphon Rue.
Rue is a curator of the Calder Foundation’s 12-hour projects—continuous programming in non-traditional locations of cross-generational and cross-disciplinary works such as film, sound, static art installations and performance. 2013’s They Might Well Have Been Remnants of the Boat was presented in a neogothic refectory and featured works by artists such as Keith Rowe, Chris Corsano, Jack Goldstein, Christine Sun Kim, Sheila Hicks, Alejandro Guzman and Elka Krajewska vs. John Williams. The previous Oh, You Mean Cellophane and All That Crap took place in a halted construction zone and featured works by artists such as Mary Ellen Bute, Alexandre Singh, C Spencer Yeh vs. Ikue Mori, Anri Sala, Darren Bader, Aki Sasamoto, and James Lee Byars.
DISCOGRAPHY
2020. Gryphon Rue, Foliage of Caves (LP), Soap Library
2020. Vertical Foliage, Love is a Grasshopper Nearby (LP), CAMP Editions
2018. Gryphon Rue, Google Portrait (ft. Dean Wareham) (single), Beethoven for Relaxation (B-side), Tigersushi Records
2017. Gryphon Rue, GR1: Parity mix, Hartzine
2016. Gryphon Rue, Google Portrait EP, Tigersushi Records
2015. El Tryptophan, Guilt Vacation LP, self-released
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019. Calder Stories, Curator & editor of music for animated ballets.
Centro Botin, organized in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, New York
2017. Symbol Rush, Curator. Clayton Gallery and Outlaw Art Museum, New York
2017. Strange Attractor, Curator. Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
2016. The Sump (now H0L0) performance space, Co-curator. New York
2016. Two performances of Earle Brown’s Calder Piece, 1963–66, Curator.
Calder Foundation, Earle Brown Foundation, Talujon Percussion Quartet, Friends Seminary, New York
2015. Eureka, Curator of music installations. Pace Gallery, New York
2015. #GauguinSounds, Contributor. Fondation Beyeler, Basel
2013. They might well have been remnants of the boat, Co-curator. Calder Foundation, The High Line Hotel, New York
2012. Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap, Co-curator. Calder Foundation, The Mckittrick Hotel, New York
TEXTS
2020. Calder & Varèse excerpted from Calder and Sound, in Sounds Lasting and Leaving,
Luxembourg & Dayan (digital exhibition catalogue)
2019. Strange Attractor, Pub. Inventory Press & Ballroom Marfa (full-length book)
2019. Ballet-Object Animatics, in Calder Stories, Centro Botín (exhibition catalogue)
2019. Calder and Sound, Open Space magazine (essay)
2018. Storm Tracker (musical score), in Dis-assemb-blies 08, Will Work For Good (magazine)
2018. Calder y el sonido in Alexander Calder: Teatro de Encuentros, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires (exhibition catalogue)
2014. PostcART: Jay Miriam, Contemporary Lynx (online magazine)
2013. Calder and Sound in Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion, Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (exhibition
catalogue)
FILM & VIDEO
2020. Love is a Grasshopper Nearby, in-camera edit by Sandy Rower, music by Vertical Foliage, 3:06, black and white, stereo sound, 16 mm
2020. Chaotic Repeller Distance-Towers, with James Powers, 4:22, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video
2020. Rue Bainbridge: Here Come The Wormholes, 5:12 min, color / monochrome cathode ray tube, stereo sound
2020. Rue Bainbridge: Biome, 3:33 min, color / monochrome cathode ray tube, stereo sound
2018. Rue Bainbridge: Holocene Jitterbug, 7:59 min, color / monochrome cathode ray tube, stereo sound
2018. LICENSE, with Robert Buck, 11:50 min, color, stereo sound, distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
2018. Google Portrait, with Benton C Bainbridge, Series of Digital Media HD videos in Singular Editions, silent, running times vary
2018. Google Portrait (ft. Christine Sun Kim & Dean Wareham), 4:20 min, color, stereo sound
2016. Google Portrait (ft. Joakim), pixel painting by Benton C Bainbridge, 4:20 min, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video
2016. Beethoven for Relaxation, directed by Max Grey, 2:58, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video
2016. Insect Express, directed by Emily Pelstring, 3:25, color, stereo sound, Digital Media HD video.
Screenings: Ottawa International Animation Festival (honorable mention for Best Canadian Animation), Feinaki Animation Week, Beijing, China, Bad Women, Bad People Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SOUNDTRACKS
2018. Gropius Memory Palace, Ben Thorp Brown, World Premiere: Saint Louis Art Museum, European Premiere: International Film Festival Rotterdam, North American Premiere: New York Film Festival
2018. TTrailer for Calder: Nonspace, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
2016. My Art, Laurie Simmons (composed by Will Epstein), electric guitar, World Premiere: Venice International Film Festival, North American Premiere: Tribeca Film Festival
2012. Alexander Calder’s Mobiles: Eucalyptus (1940), Black Mobile with Hole (1954), Bosquet is the Best Best (1946). Calder Foundation website, filmed by King & Partners
PRESENTATIONS
2019. Calder and Sound, Index Festival, The Hepworth Wakefield, England
2019. Round table, The Lacanian Unconscious: A No-Brainer, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York
2018. Calder and Sound, Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
2018. Center for Visual Music Symposium, Sonoma State University, Rue Bainbridge: Artists-in-Residence, Public Works Department / Governors Island, New York
2018. Reading Session for Scores, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Trash Panda Collective + Igor Silva, Utrecht
2013. Calder and Sound, Avant-Garde in Motion, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
GROUPS
2018- Vertical Foliage (with Heloise Tunstall-Behrens)
2017- Rue Bainbridge (with Benton C Bainbridge)
2011. Odetta and Gryphon (with Odetta Bess Hartman)
2007-2008. Sediment Club
FESTIVALS
2020. I Heart Noise (online-only)
2020. New Media Art & Sound Summit, Austin, TX
2020. Mixology Festival, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
2019. Index Festival, The Hepworth Wakefield, England
2019. The Lot Radio @ Marfa Myths, Texas
2017. Take Off Festival with Wouter van Reek (Keepvogel), Amsterdam
2016. Festival Hongerige Wolf, Groningen
2014. i = u festival, Brooklyn, NY
2012. International Festival of the Voice, Phoenicia, NY
SELECT PERFORMANCES
2020. Rue Bainbridge: I’ll Wear a Mask For You, New Media Art & Sound Summit (online only)
2020. Rue Bainbridge: Spectral Panacea, Mixology Festival, Roulette, Brooklyn
2020. Gryphon Rue, Strange Attractor: Reciting the Stochastic Topological Dynamics of Lived Existence, Montez Press Radio, New York
2019. Rue Bainbridge, Pace Gallery, New York
2019. Rue Bainbridge, Index Festival, The Hepworth Wakefield, England
2019. Kathy Acker Awards, Theater for the New City, New York
2019. Rue Bainbridge: Woolgathering Continuum, Hauser & Wirth LA
2018. Rue Bainbridge, Shigeko Kubota Foundation, New York
2018. Rue Bainbridge, The Averard Hotel, London
2015. Clayton Patterson: Outside In with paintings by Elsa Rensaa, Howl Happening, New York
2015. Performer, LYFE™ by Glass Ghost, co-presented by Lincoln Center and Performance Space 122, New York
2013. Ensemble piece Vertical Foliage Orchestra, ft. Aaron Moore, Alejandro Antelo-Suarez, Anthony Kingsley, in They might well have been remnants of the boat, Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, New York
2012. Ensemble piece Playing The Beetles, ft. Dave Nuss (NNCK), Gabrielle Herbst (GABI), Daniel Fishkin, Odetta Hartman, in Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap, Mckittrick Hotel, New York
2011. USA Wanderlust Tour as folk duo Odetta and Gryphon, with Odetta Bess Hartman
2008. Featured vocalist, Marina Rosenfeld’s Teenage Lontano, Whitney Biennial
2008. Concert and Awareness Tour with Peter Yarrow, Vietnamese cities and provinces to raise awareness for victims of AGENT ORANGE
RESIDENCIES
2019- (Rue Bainbridge) Andrew Freedman Home, New York
2019. (Rue Bainbridge) CultureHub, New York
2017. (Rue Bainbridge) Public Works Department, Governor’s Island, New York
2016. (Gryphon Rue) NDSM Treehouse, Amsterdam
GUEST APPEARANCES
2019. Eliot Krimsky, Wave in Time LP, Pretty Purgatory (Singing saw)
2018. Dean Wareham Vs. Cheval Sombre LP, Gotta Groove (Singing saw)
2016. High Water, Crush LP, Other People (Lyrics, guitar)
2012. Odetta Hartman, Tally Marks EP, Self-released (Singing saw)
2009. Peter Yarrow, Day Is Done children’s book, Sterling Publishing (Vocals)
OTHER COLLABORATIONS
2019- Performances of Strange Attractor with Edem Dela-Seshie
2018. Sharon Gal, Feel the Noise, for large ensemble of electric guitars (performer)
2014. Christine Sun Kim & Thomas Benno, Busy Day, Droit de Cités (contributor)
2014. Allison Brainard, BOY SHOW, Dark Night Theater Festival, New York (performer)
2013. Beethoven for Relaxation, in collaboration with sculptor Tom Smith, Delusions, Rox Gallery, New York
1997. Gail Gilbert, Folding Time, Thread Waxing Space, New York (saxophonist and dancer)
INSTALLATIONS
2013. Beethoven for Relaxation, in collaboration with sculptor Tom Smith, Delusions, Rox Gallery, New York
2011. Six Degrees of Degradation, Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Bard College, Annandale, New York
FILM APPEARANCES
2013. To Be Forever Wild, dir. David Becker
HOMEPAGE
Music by Vertical Foliage, Love is a Grasshopper Nearby, CAMP Editions, 2020
Film by Sandy Rower
Big Apple Circus, New York City, 1987
Les Casaly (Guillaume Dufresnoy and Mireille Fenwick), casting cradle
Clown Gordoon, with snake puppet
Dolly Jacobs, aerialist in the rings
Robbie Libbon, performance director in tuxedo
Michael Christensen, clown escorting Dolly Jacobs out of the ring
Anna May, elephant
Ben Williams, elephant trainer
Paul Binder, ringmaster
Vanessa Thomas, riding Anna May
