Krista Chalkley (they / them) is an interdisciplinary artist creating primarily within the fields of fiber, installation, and movement to explore themes of fluidity, interconnection, embodiment, and regeneration. Their work considers gender and intuition as sacred, spiritual practices– devotions to traversing the inherently mutable boundaries that compose all workings of our natural, cosmic, and metaphysical realms.

Colorful, intertwined environments emerge through a constellation of open-structured woven forms adorned with beads and loose threads. Abstracted landscapes converge with the figurative, investigating thresholds of land and body, body and spirit, spirit and collective. Interactive installation pieces morph their shape at the viewer’s conduction, moving through a system of ropes and pulleys that amplify expressive gestures into ephemeral bodies. Serving as conduits to harness elemental forces otherwise unbound by form, the work seeks a richer understanding of materiality and questions how through gesture and intention we can engage the vessel within a queered lineage of perpetual energy.