Spore Space is pleased to present work by artist ZZ Krebs at our booth at Other Places Art Fair this year.

Krebs’s practice spans sculpture, installation, and drawing, and is rooted in both research and a generational lineage of stone carving. This body of work, a collection of pieces created over the past five years, explores cycles of transformation, geological time, and the quiet but constant presence of impermanence in human life

Stone is central to Krebs’s work: as monument, as sediment, as memory, and as a vessel for time itself. In her hands, stone doesn’t merely hold form; it carries rich histories, echoes of geological rhythms, and its own vital material life. As Jane Bennett writes in Vibrant Matter: “Even metal is alive—it can crack in interesting ways… the line of travel of these cracks … [is] expressive of an emergent causality.” It is exactly this emergent and unpredictable nature of matter that drives Krebs's work: each piece is a negotiation between the artist, her environment, and the agency of the material itself.

Themes of ecological interdependence, cosmological cycles, and deep time resonate throughout this exhibition. Drawing, sculpture, and installation merge into environments that are immersive and contemplative. And yet, the work remains grounded in the tactile: the weight of stone, the flicker of light, the texture of polished or rough surfaces. These elements don’t seek to resolve or explain themselves, instead creating space for ambiguity, stillness, and presence. Is this a ruin or a beginning? The tension between the two is where the work lives.

Krebs allows materials to speak through metaphor,  texture, movement, and form. As Bennett suggests, materials carry their own directionality and decision-making; Krebs listens closely to this. The materials act. The artist responds.

Krebs does not present nature as something to be decoded, but something to be in relation with – responsive, layered, and always in flux. This installation invites viewers to slow down, to pay attention to how things shift, break, and emerge; and finally, to fix that patient lens on their own lives



 ZZ Krebs (b. 1993 Washington, DC) is a multimedia sculptor and installation artist. She received her MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2019. She received her BFA in Visual Art from the University of San Diego with a double minor in Art History and Marine Science in 2015. Krebs has been in exhibitions at Baroque Works, Ladies’ Room, LACE Gallery, Human Resources Gallery, Commons LA, Track 16 Gallery, which was featured in Curate LA, and at numerous colleges and universities. She received merit grants to be an artist in residence at Can Serrat International Artist Residency (Barcelona, Spain), Vermont Studio Center (Burlington, Vermont), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Amherst, VA), Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (Hyattsville, MD), L’Air Arts (Paris, France), and the Mountain School of Art (Los Angeles, CA). Krebs currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.