Janelle Gramling

Janelle Gramling is a sculptor who works primarily in fiber, wood, and ceramic. Always mixed media, her work arranges materials to be in conversation with each other and explore the histories, contexts, and narratives within them. Her wall-hung and ceiling-hung installations use gravity as an important element to activate the form. Themes of ecology, economy, gender, and personal symbolism speak through the ways in which her traditionally craft-centric materials interact with each other in a contemporary minimalist aesthetic. Gramling grew up in Milwaukee, WI and is self-taught and community-taught in all of her ceramics and fiber art techniques.