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Kindra Fehr believes that hands and feet tell stories. They dance, sew, caress, make music and art, feed, nurture, jump, walk, run. Their veins and wrinkles map out a life as it unfolds and the palms are believed to tell the story of an individual.
“I’ve always been intrigued with the complexity of these extremities and how they are always portrayed as a secondary subject, so my thought was-what if I painted them large scale? What if I made my compositions about the stories that they tell and made them, instead of their possessor, the subject? This thought process is where her work originated. Fehr was born in Salt Lake City, but spent her elementary years in Arvada, Colorado then returned to her place of birth with frequent sabbaticals to places like Europe, Asia, Nepal, and the east coast. She began painting at age fifteen under the direction of Bonnie Posselli, Dan Baxter, and Ken Baxter. She earned a BFA in drawing/painting from the University of Utah in 1990, and has studied at the Lacoste School of the Arts in France and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. |
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