Gryphon Rue (b. New York City) is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and musician.
Rue’s sonic and visual works weave disparate aesthetic languages into unexpected forms. His compositions interweave electronic and acoustic instruments with field recordings drawn from nature and the internet’s obscure margins, suspended between the organic and the digitally transformed. Rue’s wall work—at times composed within acrylic skylights or lenticular backpacks—culls and reconfigures contemporary and ethnographic image cultures, registering as both poetic gestures and archival traces. His drawings likewise reflect the spirit of listening and remixing that animates his electroacoustic work.
“A conjuror in stereo” (Electronic Sound) who “plays with sonics in a way that a visual artist might manipulate light” (The Quietus), Rue brings to his music “restless energy, offering up bright, sweet packet-sized servings of electroacoustic crispness” (The Wire). His album I Keep My Diamond Necklace In A Pond Of Sparkling Water was hailed as “Creaking and grumbling and humming with subterranean and oceanic immensity, singing in voices both animal and botanical” (The Quietus), and chosen for the Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp.
Rue is a 2026 commissioned artist at Calder Gardens in Philadelphia. As a 2023-2024 Jerome Artist Resident at Roulette Intermedium, he premiered Playing The Beetles with Ka Baird and Qasim Naqi (Best New Experimental Music on Bandcamp), as well as North American premieres of Giusto Pio’s Motore Immobile and Ananta. Other collaborators include Christine Sun Kim, Susie Ibarra, Dean Wareham, Alex Waterman, Sean Meehan, Merche Blasco, Benton C Bainbridge, Will Epstein, Julia Den Boer, Edwin Torres, and Odetta Hartman. He has performed at venues such as Calder Gardens, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Fondazione ICA Milano, de Young Museum, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Hepworth Wakefield, Vector Hack Festival, Roulette Mixology.
He has organized exhibitions and festivals for institutions such as Ballroom Marfa, the Calder Foundation, and Printed Matter. His programs with Montez Press Radio include conversations with figures such as David Behrman, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Annea Lockwood, Clark Coolidge, Max Eastley, Clayton Patterson, and Fran Lebowitz. Rue is the editor of Strange Attractor (Inventory Press & Ballroom Marfa), exploring the poetics of networks, environmental events, and sound, through contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Iannis Xenakis, Merlin Sheldrake, Bernadette Mayer, Haroon Mirza, among others.
Contact:
gryphonrue@gmail.com