field trip with gladwell projects

We will be going on a field trip to see 6 shows currently on view with Gladwell Projects, through the end of July, with founder Christiana Boyle.
-Chiffon Thomas: Fugitive Pleasures
-Vamba Bility: Wild Poems - Loops and Interlaces
-Lisu Vega: Las racies hablan… El recuerdo susurra
-Purvey Rai: Cartography of the Grounded Sky
-Trevor Warren: With Two Eyes
Afterwards, we'll plan to make a stop at a highly rated pizza spot down the street.
ABOUT GLADWELL PROJECTS
Gladwell Projects is an independent program established by Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle, a gallerist whose professional ethos centers on championing artists whose practices are rooted in authenticity, experimentation, and visionary rigor. Named in memory of her late uncle, a painter lost during the Biafran War, and remembered with enduring reverence and familial love, Gladwell Projects emerges as a living tribute: an intergenerational vessel through which memory, lineage, and creative practice are honored and reimagined.
Operating as a shape-shifting ecosystem that prioritizes dialogue, experimentation, long-term relationships, and moves at the tempo of artistic inquiry, the program is designed to nurture artists across various stages of their careers, particularly those whose work challenges categorization. Gladwell Projects seeks to uplift practices that traverse formal, conceptual, and institutional boundaries through radical storytelling as a reclamation space where culture is made and seen through dynamic curated shows and community-centered programming. It is a space where legacy meets the future: in motion, in dialogue, and always with intention.
With a deep commitment to artists whose work embodies social consciousness, personal narrative, and aesthetic innovation, Gladwell Projects invites audiences to experience art not merely as an object of consumption but as a catalyst for connection, reckoning, and transformation. It is a space where legacy meets the future: in motion, in dialogue, and always with intention.
ABOUT CHRISTIANA BOYLE
Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle is a New York-based art dealer and curator, and the founder of Gladwell Projects, a curatorial program committed to institutionally scaled exhibitions and cross-disciplinary storytelling guided by the principle “Do Nothing Without Intention.” Previously, Boyle served as Senior Director and Global Head of Online at Pace Gallery, where she launched the pioneering digital platform Pace Verso, brought painter Kylie Manning into the program, and worked closely with artists such as Lynda Benglis and Hank Willis Thomas. Her curatorial work consistently champions underrepresented voices and fosters inclusive, engaged collector communities with a vision of transforming the contemporary art landscape through intention and equity.
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