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about
Bliss
Pinball (curtain)
Baby book I
Miss Wilma
Baby bush
Poems and acrostics
Small works
   this is an index
akeylah wellington is a sculptor and tapestry maker. Her work is concerned with humor as both a noun connoting comedy and a verb meaning to endure. Working with found media from the 2000s, her attention to technological and political developments is an attempt to make sense of her personal experience of carceral-related displacement, loss, girlhood, generational inheritances, and time.

awellingtonart@gmail.com



01.Bliss I

pony beads, monofilament
101x82”
2025 Vessel City

Cleveland, OH
1352 W 70th St, Cleveland, Ohio
5-16-2025 to 6-14-2025



 Appropriated image of Bliss, a photo taken by Charles O’Rear in 1996 in California. Was later selected as the default background for Microsoft’s launch of Windows XP.
1/1    Bliss I pictured with Margaret Kammerer’s work in a group show titled This is Not Sufficient at Vessel City curated by Gabrielle Banzhaf. image courtesy of akeylah
02.Pinball (curtain)

pony beads, steel, aluminum, purple money cowrie shell, plastic cowrie shells, fishing beads, monofilament
69x100”
2025Vessel City

Cleveland, OH
1352 W 70th St, Cleveland, Ohio
5-16-2025 to 6-14-2025

Did you remember the way the pinball looked from the 3D Pinball Space Cadet minigame? 
1/4    Images courtesy of akeylah
2/4   Does the ball graphic ever change?
3/4   I found these plastic cowries at a beauty supply store.
4/4    I did not find this cowrie at the beauty supply store.
03.Baby book I

pony beads, plastic lace, plastic cowrie shells

dimensions variable
2024

Approximation of my baby book, lost during my mother’s incarceration
1/7    images courtesy of Chris Schultz
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04.Miss Wilma

pony beads, monofilament

53 x 49”
2024Blah Blah Gallery

907 Christian St,
Philadelphia, PA 19147
1-10-2025 to 2-5-2025
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Pond Gallery

100 W Center St, Ste 002, Fayetteville, AR 72701
10-25-2024 to  12-7-2024



Appropriated satellite image of Hurricane Wilma moving over South Florida in 2005
1/2    Pictured at Blah Blah Gallery (Philadelphia, PA) as a part of Curtain Call, a group exhibition curated by Qualeasha Wood and Anais Cooper-Hackman in February 2025
2/2    Pictured at Pond Gallery as a part of a solo exhibition titled You said it never happened but our home was an anthill in October 2024. image courtesy of Chris Scultz
05.Baby bush, you made my eyes go wide and stay there

pony beads, monofilament
10 x 3’
2024Beeler Gallery

60 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, OH 43215
9-5-2024 to 11-2-2024

1/4     This work was made for presentation at Beeler Gallery as part of I Was Here, a lens based group exhibition organized as part of the 2024 backstories Fotofocus Biennial, a regional program focusing on celebrating photography.
2/4    The exhibition was curated  by photographer Marcus Morris and intermedia artist April Sunami.
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06.Poems and acrostics
2023-

Abridged, acrostic poems made from original poems about love, domesticity, and getting one’s hair done
1/9    I love a big fat acrylic; pony beads, monofilament; 40 x 88” (pictured at The Anderson in Richmond, VA),  2023
2/9    Text reads: “I love a big fat acrylic and a little nameplate necklace like I love when a girl says she got 14-carat gold at the beauty supply I left her have it everytime because I love easy miracles ones void of greening”
3/9   I loved you to Jupiter Saturn Pluto and I still came back loving you; pony beads, monofilament; 31 x 40” (pictured at Pond Gallery),  2023
4/9   Doily socked dollar out of fifteen cent; pony beads, monofilament;  40 x 43”,  2024
5/9    Scotchbonnet special girl; pony beads, monofilament;  40 x 43”,  2024
6/9    Text reads:
7/9    I love you like meat; pony beads, monofilament;  40 x 43”,   2024
7/9   Little miss mary mack you make my heart go young Venus Williams (1994), stop-gap projects,  June 2023
9/9    Text of the right tapestry reads:
07.Small works
2024-

1/2    Motherlode I;   pony beads, monofilament; 21 x 28”,  2024
2/2    She was a gorgeous bride in her denims;   pony beads, monofilament; 21 x 28”, 2024