About The Artist
Kelly Redfearn Kinder is a Native American artist and designer - born in North Carolina, indigenous to California. Her work merges fine art and fine design and seeks to eclipse categorization to invite creativity from either sphere for every kind of project. She loves bright colors and lives 20 minutes in the future, and is fixated on the process of artmaking and the joys of experimentation... as well as just generally playing around.
She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017 with a Bachelor of the Fine Arts degree, and works as a creative programming coordinator and unprofessional illustrator in San Francisco. She is working to develop a concrete body of fine art work until she returns to school to pursue her MFA. In the meantime, she enjoys playing with cats and drawing irreverent cartoons of her friends.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2017 BFA Studio Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2015 SACI College of Art and Design: Florence, Italy
2012 Middle College, Durham Technical Community College
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EXPERIENCE
2019 University of California at Berkeley, Adobe Fellows Program Coordinator
2018 Randall Museum, "Intro to Laser Cutting" Instructor
2018 San Francisco Recreation & Parks, Graphic Design & Social Media Manager
2015-18 Idyllwild Arts Summer Program, Native Arts Adult Program Coordinator
2017 National Student Advertising Competition Team, Designer
2015 PressMe Communication, Florence, Italy: Design Intern
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Rethinking the Frontier: Indigenous Sci-Fi and Fantasy // North Santiam Gallery // Albany, OR
2023 In The Blood, solo exhibition // Urban Ore Artist-In-Residence Gallery // Berkeley, CA
2019 Spin Cycle, Mixed Baggage Collective // Worth Ryder Gallery // Berkeley, CA
2017 Staff Art Show, Idyllwild Summer Program // Parks Exhibition Center // Idyllwild, CA
2017 Site Unseen, UNC-Chapel Hill Senior Exhibition // John & June Allcott Gallery // Chapel Hill, NC
2016 We Stand, We Matter, UNC-Chapel Hill Senior Exhibition // public art installation // Chapel Hill, NC
2016 Accumulated Obsolescence, UNC-Chapel Hill Senior Exhibition // Allcott Undergraduate Gallery // Chapel Hill, NC
Artist Statement
How we experience the past, the future, and the present is informed
ordinarily by translucent layers of spacetime that surround us as we are co
ntinually being pulled into the future through technological innovation and sci
entific advancement, and yet tied back by our attachments to objects and places
seemingly fixed in the past. The advent of the digital age supersedes the analog: addi
tive color obsoletes subtractive color; the two exist in fundamentally separate
layers of time and their dissonant merge emphasizes the impracticality of
yet attempting to reunite the present with the past. However
, this seemingly errant expansion of a moment in time to include divergent eras is
our attempt to overcome the confines of our three-dimensional
world in order to define a four-dimensional object: increasing our perception of the
held object from a single snapshot to encompassing its entire lifetime. A pers
on is both alive and dead, depending on when you perceive them. A touch is felt in
the present and remembered in the future. A fire is both burning and spent,
changing from moment to moment. A work of digital art begins its life in
a theoretical world consisting of red, green, and blue light, and is transformed into a
real object of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black pigment. Your perception of an object
exists only in an instantaneous moment in the present, yet an infinite number of these
single moments define that object in the fourth dimension. Do you understand now
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