Progenitor & Progenitor’s Egg
Through my ever evolving exploration of the origin of form, I’m continuously birthing a new reality from the life that dances around me. Again and again, I come to understand a truth I’ve always known deep in the recesses of my unconscious. The form always changes, but the soul remains the same.
At once a functional light and a sculptural manifestation of my love for all creatures. What constitutes aliveness? What is the condition of the soul? There’s magic in the transmission of energy, the electrical pulse, the spark in your eye.
Medium: cement, sand, styrofoam packaging, LED, seaweed, knit, cable, spirulina, iron oxide, gelatin, glycerin, glass beads
Creature 8” x 11” x 4”
Egg 14” x 14” x 14”
Now showing at @novacancygallery curated by @spiraro__ for Melbourne Design Week May 13 - 18
Opening reception is tonight 6-8pm
Thank you to Indy for making all of this possible and to Albert @allb3rt for helping me custom 3D print the light fixture hardware that made this piece come to life ✨
Last year, I embarked on a journey to build an oyster reef sculpture that would support and revitalize the oyster population in the Hudson River Estuary. Ediacara is a prototype for a larger artificial reef habitat starter, crafted as a sigil and ecological intervention to encourage marine biodiversity and clean waterways. The oysters are shoreline stabilizers and natural filter feeders, a single oyster filtering around 50 gallons a day. The piece acts as a tidemarker in the brackish water and will be concealed and revealed as the tide shifts. Oyster larvae typically grow on other oyster shells (they can sense the PH level of the calcium carbonate) and will propagate on the sculpture to form complex geometries over time. These precious organisms are longtime residents of the Hudson Valley and once supported the life of over half of the world’s oysters! 🦪🪼🪸
Ediacara
medium: concrete, clay, oyster shells, charcoal, steel
dimensions: 16” x 16” x 32”
nov 2023
Debuted at @bondhardware
Last exhibited at @kaleidoscope.bk as part of the @ilovechainmail winter group show
Went on an odyssey and found friendship and my own tenacity at the top of Coney Island Mountain!
Harlem >>> Coney Island First Official Jaunt great success
𝑰’𝒎 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒅 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑, 2026
e-waste, cement, clay, sand, concrete, spirulina, matcha, charcoal, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, wire, packaging foam, sea glass, water
44” x 44” x 16” dimensions
Part one of a new series I have been dreaming about for 6 years. The flow of water shapes the body, conduit for the flow of electricity which organizes a tiny city. The circuit board, designed by the human mind, is an extension of the human body. An appendage that we can understand as biology and evolution. The stones are the bones, holding up the flesh of the earthly body. This is a practice of shaping the clay of reality. The landscape will continue to be activated with new elements that will bring increasing evidence of life with each iteration. The second iteration to be unveiled in April. I hope you come along for the journey. 🌱🌙
Exhibited at Maker’s Space Gallery as part of The General Conference, amongst an epic fun gaggle of artists and musicians curated by @hireharper@b0nezone@geeeeekbar@00.1bun@darlingaffect@anyamay0r@christine.wpng@angel_lovecraft@s.reyaa@matthew_premium@oceane2u@hiisero@lifelikelitris@ren_gxx@moonbby6@3l3d3p@___voyeur
Hosted by the awesome folks at @3rd.space.nyc@perfectlyimperfect
My deep gratitude to @bansages_22 for helping document my work and blessings to @wh1teno1semach1ne for helping me install I cannot exist without my friends
Flesh Fountain is built with layers of plaster, resin, and silicone, a material decision guided by the marriage of bone, blood, and tissue systems that miraculously make a body. The continuous flow of electricity and fluids activates the flesh. Precious and so alive.
Born out of appreciation for the flesh body. And the soil body beneath our feet.
For Tell No One @thepeopleofcx
Randy moon-bathing at The Flesh Fountain, as inspired by Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights
Art direction for Tell No One Halloween at The McKittrick Hotel
Thank you to @thepeopleofcx for entrusting me to bring such a sacred painting to life. I have channeled everything I have learned so far and synthesized them to build this fountain and can’t thank you enough for allowing me the opportunity to step into my full capacity.
And thank you to my TEAAAMMMM man I love my team. They worked so hard to make this world real it was like magic @qualiatik@54117m4nd3rl1v3@cr3atureofhab1t@armarierodriguez@arielzrich@insakeofeternity@e__sterling 🤍
Currently exhibiting:
Subduction Zone 3.0, 2025
Bioresin, knit textile, fishing wire, e-waste
By: Grace Jung (@cosmic.worm )
A meditation on the origin of form. Hardware mirrors software, and matter is imbued with spirit, holding the energy of its conception, a moment that belongs only to itself and can never be replicated.
Schedule an appointment to view in person
Photo by @radiant.childd
Fugue Gallery is excited to feature Grace Jung, whose work will be showcased in our upcoming exhibition - The Living Room, curated by Helena Elston. On view: October 25 – December 7, 2025. RSVP to the opening reception with the link in bio.
Grace Jung is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working at the intersection of sculpture, ecology, and biology. Her practice alchemizes new worlds from the decomposed—translating cycles of decay into gestures of renewal. Through meditation on the origins of form, Jung calls upon an ancestral memory, tracing the invisible threads that bind all living things. Her sculptures act as conduits for transformation—sites where the microbial and the monumental coexist, where growth emerges from ash. Working with algae, fungi, and calcium carbonate, Jung cultivates a rich material language of biomaterials that engage processes of digestion and regeneration. In nurturing these living systems, she invites us to reconsider what it means to be alive, to share space, and to become together.
Artist: @cosmic.worm
Words feel inadequate to contain all I’ve learned, felt, understood, become. It is all contained in my beingness and that is good enough 😌
I wrote a poem on my big walk out of Tassajara:
This body was built to walk
I am a good machine
Squishy and wet
Bones scramble talus scree
Fall and turn to dust
I will turn to dust too
It seems obvious
Do I have to say it?
Sometimes a reminder is good
