Vamba Bility

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

Happy to have these works @atla_works alongside a great group of artists. ‘The host, the guest’ Curated by @nichole__caruso . On view til March

Refuse and mud 2025 knitted cotton, wool, acrylic yarn, wood, oil, oil stick, pencil, nail, washers, epoxy clay, sewn canvas Size: 60 1/2 X 73 1/4 inches

Untitled (songs of mud), 2025 Woven cotton, acrylic, polypropylene yarn 81 x 34 inches 205.74 x 86.36 cm This piece was recently in a show with a group of amazing artists @hesse_flatow curated by @cecilia_____cecilia Thank you for dropping by and experiencing the work in person.

Excited to have these works @kasmingallery in ‘Crossings’ alongside an amazing group of artists. On view til August 9th.

My solo exhibition is up at the Hammer Museum in LA. “Hammer Projects: Vamba Bility” is on view through 5/19/24. Curated by @ike_chuks and @nyah.ade @hammer_museum Thank you for all the love!