akeylah wellingtonloves the smell of Pink. She thinks you probably do, too. Her tapestries and sculptures deal 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.
small things to consider: unrequited platonic love letters, soft power
slide 1: tapestry at Blah Blah Gallery, curated by Qualeasha Wood and Anais Cooper-Hackman (Philadephia, PA)
Miss Wilma (2024)
pony beads and monofilament 49 x 53”
slides 2-8: tapestries at Vessel City, curated by Gabrielle Banzhaf (Cleveland, OH)
THIS IS NOT SUFFICENT considers emotional dissonance from inhabiting spaces both bodily and digital. The artist’s handwork embodies tensions between immediacy and patience, remoteness and intimacy, between the feed and the thread
akeylah and Margaret recall an innocent sense of wonder with a new digital world in contrast with current fears of losing physical contact.
for inquiries, please email the gyal at awellingtonart[@]gmail.com