Gladwell Projects

We are thrilled to share that ICA Miami (@icamiami ) has acquired Purvai Rai’s (@purvairai ) Memory Traces 5, 2024–2025 from Gladwell Projects’ presentation at NADA Miami. This acquisition by ICA Miami’s Young Collectors Board marks a significant institutional milestone for Rai, whose practice traces the agricultural, architectural, and intergenerational histories of her ancestral village of Nawanpind in Punjab. This also marks Rai’s first US acquisition. Memory Traces 5 embodies Rai’s deeply collaborative process with the women of her community, layering cotton and silk embroidery onto fields of resin, glass beads, and acrylic to form a living archive of care, labor, and ecological memory. We are honored that this work will join ICA Miami’s permanent collection and grateful for their visionary recognition of Rai’s practice. Thank you to ICA Miami, the Young Collectors Board, and everyone who has visited Booth C208 this week. Do Nothing Without Intention. 🖤

Gladwell Projects is pleased to announce that works by Chiffon Thomas @c.chronicles and Clifford Prince King @cliffordprinceking have been acquired into the Dallas Museum of Art’s @dallasmuseumart permanent collection. Thomas’s Sundering (2024) and King’s silence by the river (2023) were presented in Domestic Interventions: The Metroplex, the inaugural exhibition of Gladwell Projects’ ongoing curatorial series. Both artists’ practices explore how intimacy, resilience, and the body become sites of transformation — tracing new vocabularies of care, identity, and transcendence. As Ade Omotosho, the Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the DMA, shares: “King and Thomas are among the most promising and ambitious queer Black artists working today. The acquisition of these works richly expands the museum’s representation of queer contemporary art, making room for practitioners conducting rigorous inquiries into intimacy, the body, and materials.” Thomas’s practice continues to resonate within The Spirituality of Color, the current edition of Domestic Interventions now on view in Harlem; extending the conversation between materiality, ritual, and transcendence across contexts. Domestic Interventions was conceived by Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle to reimagine the home as a site for encounter and exchange, dissolving the boundaries between private and public space. The acquisitions affirm the series’ mission: that transformative work can begin at home, yet live on within the walls of major institutions. Fifty percent of the Dallas exhibition’s profits were donated to @eighthhouseresidency , reflecting Gladwell Projects’ commitment to artist-led ecosystems and long-term cultural infrastructure. #GladwellProjects #DomesticInterventions #TheMetroplex #TheSpiritualityOfColor #DallasMuseumofArt #ChiffonThomas #CliffordPrinceKing #ContemporaryArt #BlackArtists #QueerArt #CuratorialPractice #MuseumAcquisition #ArtAndSpirituality #NewYorkArt #DallasArt #sculpture #photography #GladwellProjects

Amid the recent string of large and mid-sized gallery closures, could smaller, emerging galleries step into the power vacuum? “I 100% think they are the future,” says Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle, a New York-based dealer who has previously worked at galleries including Lehmann Maupin, Canada and Pace. “This whole idea of differentiating and categorising galleries—megas, mid-tier, small—is naturally disintegrating.” This spring, Ine-Kimba Boyle launched Gladwell Projects, a nomadic gallery with a staff of one. On 3 October, Gladwell Projects will unveil its second show, The Spirituality of Color, bringing works by chromatic innovators like Sam Gillam and Kylie Manning to a townhouse in Harlem. The gallery’s first show, The Metroplex, was staged in the collector Christie Williams’s Dallas home during the Dallas Art Fair last April. The Dallas Art Museum acquired a sculpture by Chiffon Thomas and a photograph by Clifford Prince King as a result. The Metroplex and The Spirituality of Color are both part of Gladwell Projects’ Domestic Interventions series of exhibitions in private homes. The brownstone that will host The Spirituality of Color stands at 124 West 131st Street, in a landmarked historic district. “It’s one of the oldest and first row houses to be built in central Harlem,” Ine-Kimba Boyle says. The house is hitting the market this month for $3.5m. Tap the link in our bio to read more @gladwellprojects @ine_kimba

Vamba Bility: Wild Poems – Loops and Interlaces @vamba_bility 
On view through June 14 at @gladwellprojects | 130 Bay Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 In Wild Poems – Loops and Interlaces, Vamba Bility presents a deeply tactile exhibition exploring migration, material memory, improvisation, and repair through painting, weaving, sculpture, and installation. Woven lattices tighten and unravel across painted surfaces, threads spill beyond the picture plane, and charred wood, stitched fabric, and calabash forms become vessels for rhythm, transformation, and embodied history. Born in Côte d’Ivoire and shaped by movement between West Africa and coastal New England, Bility approaches abstraction as a living structure — provisional, rhythmic, and continually evolving. Throughout the exhibition, grids loosen into improvisational systems while materials remain visibly unresolved, held together through tension, repetition, and trust. Installed across an entire floor of the historic Arts & Powerhouse Building, the exhibition unfolds as both immersive environment and intimate meditation on diasporic consciousness, memory, and relation. Part of Six Artists. Six Floors. Six Solo Exhibitions. NOW OPEN
Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6 PM
and by appointment, Mon–Tues. 📍Gladwell Projects
Arts & Powerhouse Building
130 Bay Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302 Directions:
PATH train to Grove Street + 8 minute walk
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Essex Street
NY Waterway Ferry to Paulus Hook
Direct access via Holland Tunnel + nearby parking available #VambaBility #WildPoemsLoopsAndInterlaces #GladwellProjects #ContemporaryArt #Painting #TextileArt #InstallationView #jerseycityarts

Purvai Rai: Cartography of the Grounded Sky @purvairai 
On view through June 14 at @gladwellprojects | 130 Bay Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 In Cartography of the Grounded Sky, Purvai Rai presents a sweeping and deeply immersive exhibition examining the entanglements between cosmology, agriculture, labor, architecture, ecology, and devotion. Working across sculpture, installation, material intervention, and architectural space, Rai constructs an exhibition that collapses distinctions between the celestial and terrestrial — where atmosphere, grain, ash, irrigation systems, and the body itself become interconnected forms of living memory. Throughout the exhibition, agricultural residue transforms into devotional offering, husk becomes topography, architecture functions as vessel, and carbon shifts between destruction and regeneration. Installed across an entire floor of the Arts & Powerhouse Building, the exhibition unfolds as both monumental environment and intimate archive, a meditation on land, inheritance, survival, and ecological precarity. Part of Six Artists. Six Floors. Six Solo Exhibitions. NOW OPEN
Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6 PM
and by appointment, Mon-Tues. 📍Gladwell Projects
Arts & Powerhouse Building
130 Bay Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302 Directions:
PATH train to Grove Street + 8 minute walk
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Essex Street
NY Waterway Ferry to Paulus Hook
Direct access via Holland Tunnel + nearby parking available #PurvaiRai #CartographyOfTheGroundedSky #GladwellProjects #ContemporaryArt #InstallationView #JerseyCityArts

Chiffon Thomas: Fugitive Pleasures @c.chronicles 
On view through June 14 at @gladwellprojects | 130 Bay Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 Fugitive Pleasures marks a major solo presentation by Chiffon Thomas, bringing together new and recent works that examine fugitivity, opacity, spirituality, and self-authored relation through sculpture and installation. Across the exhibition, stained glass, welded steel, silicone, embroidery thread, torched wood, and salvaged architectural fragments are transformed into speculative devotional structures that move fluidly between monument, reliquary, shelter, ruin, and body. Installed within the raw industrial framework of the Arts & Powerhouse Building, the exhibition produces an environment that feels simultaneously sacred, destabilized, and deeply human. Light filters through fractured stained glass surfaces and rusted steel armatures while exposed seams, suspended forms, and collapsing architectures refuse fixed interpretation in favor of multiplicity, interiority, and continual becoming. At once emotionally charged and architecturally commanding, Fugitive Pleasures positions Thomas as one of the most compelling sculptural voices working today. Part of Six Artists. Six Floors. Six Solo Exhibitions. NOW OPEN
Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6 PM
and by appointment, Mon-Tues. 📍Gladwell Projects
Arts & Powerhouse Building
130 Bay Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302 Directions:
PATH train to Grove Street + 8 minute walk
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Essex Street
NY Waterway Ferry to Paulus Hook
Direct access via Holland Tunnel + nearby parking available #chiffonthomas #fugitivepleasures #gladwellprojects #contemporaryart #installationview #jerseycityarts #sculpture

Trevor Warren: With Two Eyes @trevorpwarren 
On view through June 14 at @gladwellprojects 130 Bay Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 Trevor Warren’s With Two Eyes transforms painting into an immersive psychological and atmospheric experience. Across monumental surfaces of staining, layering, cutting, and recomposition, Warren constructs abstractions that feel simultaneously unstable and deeply alive — works that oscillate between memory and erosion, intimacy and immensity, gesture and disappearance. Installed within the soaring industrial architecture of the historic Arts & Powerhouse Building, the paintings unfold less as static objects than as environments of perception: chromatic fields where color pools, fractures, dissolves, and reemerges through accumulative acts of looking. Warren’s paintings reward duration, inviting viewers into slowed states of attention where emotional resonance and material experience become inseparable. This is Trevor Warren’s most ambitious presentation to date. Part of Six Artists. Six Floors. Six Solo Exhibitions. — Gladwell Projects’ building-wide exhibition framework activating six distinct floors through immersive solo presentations. Open this weekend
Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6 PM
and by appointment, Mon-Tues. 📍Gladwell Projects
Arts & Powerhouse Building
130 Bay Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302 Directions:
PATH train to Grove Street + 8 minute walk
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Essex Street
NY Waterway Ferry to Paulus Hook
Direct access via Holland Tunnel + nearby parking available Artwork: Trevor Warren Evening’s Net, 2026 Oil and acrylic on canvas 84.5 × 53.5 × 1.5 in. (214.6 × 135.9 × 3.8 cm) Trevor Warren Rubik’s Cube, 2026 Oil and acrylic on canvas 70 × 75.5 × 2 in. (177.8 × 191.8 × 5.1 cm) #TrevorWarren #WithTwoEyes #GladwellProjects #AbstractPainting #ContemporaryPainting #InstallationView #JerseyCityArts

Tonight. Gladwell Projects is proud to open Six Artists. Six Floors. Six Solo Exhibitions. at the historic Arts & Powerhouse Building in Jersey City. Featuring new and recent works by: Vamba Bility @vamba_bility Purvai Rai @purvairai Chiffon Thomas @c.chronicles Lisu Vega @lisuvega Trevor Warren @trevorpwarren Chunghee Yun @chunghee_yun Across six floors, each artist transforms a distinct architectural environment through installation, painting, sculpture, textile, sound, and performance, creating a collective meditation on memory, materiality, devotion, intimacy, labor, and transformation. Opening reception tonight, May 9, 6–8 pm Live performance by Chiffon Thomas, 7–8 pm On view through June 14, 2026 Arts & Powerhouse Building Jersey City, New Jersey @gladwellprojects

Chiffon Thomas: Fugitive Pleasures A live performance Saturday, May 9, 2026
7–8 pm @c.chronicles Arts & Powerhouse Building
130 Bay Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302 Presented in conjunction with the opening reception for Fugitive Pleasures, Thomas’s performance unfolds as an improvised activation responding to the exhibition’s themes of intimacy, fugitivity, embodiment, and desire. Emerging in dialogue with the emotional and spatial architecture of the exhibition, the performance will take shape live over the course of the evening. Part of Gladwell Projects 
Six Artists. Six Floors. Six Solo Exhibitions. @gladwellprojects Opening reception: 6–8 pm. #ChiffonThomas #GladwellProjects #JerseyCityArts #ContemporaryArt #PerformanceArt #LivePerformance #NYCArt #ArtExhibition

Six artists. Six floors. Six solo exhibitions | Opening May 9, 6–8 pm at the historic A&P Building, 130 Bay Street, Jersey City, NJ Featuring: @vamba_bility | Wild Poems — Loops and Interlaces @purvairai | Cartography of the Grounded Sky @c.chronicles | Fugitive Pleasures @lisuvega | Las raíces hablan……El recuerdo susurra @trevorpwarren | With Two Eyes @chunghee_yun | The Blue Mirror What originally began as a focused group exhibition titled Material Matter, an inquiry into material, surface, and the language of making, has evolved into a more expansive vision. This next chapter extends that premise: each artist occupies an autonomous space with its own architecture and internal logic. What was once a shared dialogue unfolds here as six individual, fully realized exhibitions. At Gladwell Projects, we are committed to developing programming that operates fluidly across private and public contexts, often activating underutilized architectural spaces as sites for exhibition, reimagining them as platforms through which artists can realize work at a scale and ambition not typically afforded within traditional frameworks. The model is shifting. The exhibition format is shifting. The conditions through which we engage artists are shifting. May 9 – June 14, 2026, 11-6 pm Opening reception: Saturday, May 9, 6–8 pm Arts & Powerhouse Building @artsandpowerhousebuildingjc 130 Bay Street, Jersey City, NJ Do nothing without intention.

Opening Night Preview at Conductor Art Fair (Booth B1) @powerhouse_arts Gladwell Projects presents a focused two-artist dialogue between @purvairai and @lisuvega , bringing into conversation materially distinct practices grounded in land, labor, and intergenerational memory. Rai’s works embed agricultural knowledge through process-driven surfaces developed in collaboration with women artisans in Punjab, mapping cycles of cultivation, time, and endurance. In parallel, Vega’s handwoven textiles and photographic transfers trace memory through acts of translation, drawing from images taken by the artist. Conceived as both a formal dialogue and a preview, the presentation introduces the artists’ forthcoming solo exhibitions at Gladwell Projects’ space at 130 Bay Street: Purvai Rai: Cartography of the Grounded Sky Lisu Vega: Las raíces hablan…..El recuerdo susurra, opening May 9 – June 14, 2026. Visit us at Booth B1 Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn April 29 – May 3 VIP Opening: April 29, 6–9 PM Public hours: April 30 – May 3, 11 AM – 7 PM Closing Day: 11 AM – 5 PM

Gladwell Projects is pleased to present a two-person booth featuring the work of Lisu Vega @lisuvega and Purvai Rai @purvairai at the inaugural edition of Conductor Art Fair, hosted at @powerhouse_arts , on view April 29 through May 3, 2026. This presentation introduces two distinct yet conceptually resonant practices ahead of the artists’ forthcoming solo exhibitions with @gladwellprojects at 130 Bay Street in Jersey City, opening Saturday, May 9, 6-8 pm. Across the booth, Vega and Rai engage in a shared inquiry into what remains. Their works converge around questions of residue, memory, and the conditions through which value is assigned and sustained. Lisu Vega’s work approaches memory as a living, embodied archive. Working across textile, photography, and installation, Vega constructs environments where memory is not fixed but continually reconstituted through material transformation. Rooted in her Venezuelan upbringing, her practice reflects the complexity of a familial lineage that spans Indigenous traditions on her mother’s side and Spanish heritage on her father’s. Her works hold these histories, forming a material amalgamation of cultural identity through fiber, image, and gesture. Recent solo exhibitions include Weaving Landscapes of Memory, Miami Dade College (2026); That Which Inhabits Me, The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery (2025). Vega was a recipient of the Ellies Creator Award (2026) and the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art (2025), at the Orlando Museum of Art. She is currently in the South Florida Cultural Consortium exhibition (2026), at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami. Her work has also been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington and the National Art Gallery of Venezuela, and is featured in Le Fil / Thread in Contemporary Art (Pyramid Publishing, France, 2025). Vega will have forthcoming institutional solo exhibitions at the Mint Museum, Charlotte and the Coral Springs Museum of Art in 2027. Artwork Details: Lisu Vega Nest, 2026 Handwoven textile using repurposed nylon rope and natural oxidation 53 x 25 inches (134.62 × 63.5 cm)