Pattern Interruptions II

A multi-modal exhibit by Chelvanaya Gabriel

March 9 through April 21

Exhibit can be viewed Tuesdays and Wednesdays 1:00-4:00pm

Reception: March 14, 3:00-4:00pm (In-person and via Zoom)

If you can’t come to the Center to witness the exhibit in person, we invite you to check out our 5 minute video tour here!

Statement from Chelvanaya: What are the ways that we move through the world that create connection and healing across space and time? And what are the ways that do not?

I believe that building the worlds that we want to live in and walking a path of ever-increasing liberation and wellness for all requires that we name all of this. It is complex work. Language is often limiting, often perpetuates some of the very patterns we seek to uproot. Non-verbal forms of creative expression allow us to achieve deeper, more authentic connections and reflections.

In this multi-modal exhibit, I invite you to engage with a set of my works in various ways as a sort of dialogue between us, between yourself and other viewers and for your own self-reflection and inner dialogue. I invite you to join me in uprooting ingrained patterns and planting new ways of being in the fertile soil of creative expression and reflective dialogue.

Please email programs@nohoarts.org to register for the reception on March 14, and help us herald in a new vision for art exhibits in a post-pandemic world!

Chelvanaya Gabriel (they/them) is a multimedia art activist/storyteller and resilience facilitator with a background in the sciences. They were born and raised first in the Pacific Northwest then here in Western MA. A self-taught artist, they found an Audre Lorde-inspired form of self-care and healing-survival in creating visual work after the 2016 election. They create space within their work, and in community, where stories of wellness, trauma, disability, and neurodiversity, especially of QTBIPOC folx, can be witnessed and collectively processed. Decolonizing contemplative practices and an embodied awareness of ancestral knowledge guide this aspect of their work. Creative Resilience, their latest project, is a series of art-based dialogues about wellness and identity developed within an anti-oppression and liberation-centered framework.