Gryphon Rue (b. New York City) is an artist, composer, and musician.
Rue’s visual and sound works weave disparate aesthetic languages into unexpected forms. His music is shaped from layered textures and field recordings, crossing the boundaries between the natural 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.
Rue is a 2026 commissioned artist at Calder Gardens. “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.
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 Tryanny, Annea Lockwood, Clark Coolidge, 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, Merlin Sheldrake, Bernadette Mayer, Beatrice Gibson, Haroon Mirza, among others.
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, Will Epstein, Alex Waterman, Sean Meehan, Edwin Torres, and Benton C Bainbridge. He has performed at venues and festivals such as Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Fondazione ICA Milano, de Young Museum, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Hepworth Wakefield, Vector Hack Festival, Roulette Mixology.
Contact:
gryphonrue@gmail.com