Among the recurring subjects in Gray Wielebinski’s wide-ranging practice are interests in mythology and everyday materials, and how those disparate subjects can reflect and shape our identities. These preoccupations have a way of colliding in playful and arresting ways in Wielebinski’s work—like, for instance, the artist’s July 2019 solo show at London gallery Seager. That show’s centerpiece was a sprawling sculpture fusing the mythological figure of the sphinx and the astrologically charged image of the scorpion. At once cartoonish and ominous, the hybrid creature was stitched together from fragments of clothing, including leather and denim. Wielebinski’s works often have an irreverent quality, but they are also bristling with intensity and charged with the many (often conflicting) associations of the materials they fuse into exciting new forms. Wielebinski is featured in The Artsy Vanguard 2020.