{"id":30273,"date":"2015-10-26T03:13:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T09:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=30273"},"modified":"2018-09-26T09:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:14:39","slug":"pain-paint-and-release-kindra-fehr-at-art-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/pain-paint-and-release-kindra-fehr-at-art-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain, Paint and Release: Kindra Fehr at Art Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30276\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr5.jpg\" alt=\"kindrafehr5\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr5-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr5-900x598.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paper airplanes are a recurring motif in Kendra Fehr\u2019s current show at Art Access Gallery: lying in a farm field a woman reaches her hand out toward a white paper airplane that sails away toward a stormy sky; a woman dances on an expansive ground, holding strings that sail in each direction, attached to folded, colorful paper airplanes above; a figure, arms outstretched, chest and head to the sky, seems to push from her heart a series of four red planes that sail into the distance. These paper airplanes provide a universal motif to these paintings, one of freedom and release, of openness and endlessness, but they also have a very personal reference\u2014 to the artist\u2019s father, who passed away in June. \u201cHe made paper airplanes to entertain us and the grandkids,\u201d Fehr writes in a poem that serves as the exhibit\u2019s artist statement, \u201chis hands slowly meticulously folding paper\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone experiences loss at some point\u2026or many times in life. We all have a natural mechanism for processing grief, working through the experience of pain, unique to each of us, but common in our pain. When Fehr lost her father just months before her scheduled exhibit at the gallery, she turned to her primary life vocation, painting, to heal, and found a whole new body of work developing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt began.<\/p>\n<p>sketchbook<\/p>\n<p>pencil<\/p>\n<p>a word or phrase<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>pencil to paper<\/p>\n<p>sketchbook to canvas<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>then, it changed.<\/p>\n<p>my dad died<\/p>\n<p>everything changed\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Taking Flight<\/em> takes the viewer through the vision, spirit and expression of Fehr, to experience the spirit of the soul being released from the bonds of loss, and the experience of transcendence in liberation.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-30273 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/pain-paint-and-release-kindra-fehr-at-art-access\/kindrafehr1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr1-1-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr1-1-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr1-1-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr1-1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr1-1-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/pain-paint-and-release-kindra-fehr-at-art-access\/kindrafehr2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr2-1-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr2-1-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr2-1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr2-1-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/pain-paint-and-release-kindra-fehr-at-art-access\/kindrafehr3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr3-1-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr3-1-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr3-1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr3-1-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/pain-paint-and-release-kindra-fehr-at-art-access\/kindrafehr4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr4-1-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr4-1-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr4-1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr4-1-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The paintings speak through a broad range of emotive responses, but they are generally something bright, upward lifting, open\u2014a soaring sense of positivity, truth, and universality, responding to ethereality with mortality. A seeming exception to this is \u201cMending a Broken Heart,\u201d which might be considered abrasive or disturbing, but is quite the contrary. Even though a woman, with a golden halo behind her head, has a needle and thread, and through an open window to her chest is sewing into her own heart, the painting is spiritual in nature. The subject is a perfect representation of the artist healing from the death of her recently departed father, at the place where the relationship with her father was experienced. Her dress is in shards, and, surreally, there is vacant space where her legs should be. She must heal this cavernous wound within her or she cannot move on.<\/p>\n<p>The many paintings with planes and figures show this process of release and moving on. Central to these paintings is also the sky \u2014 open, massive, azure \u2014 another motif playing a role with the airplanes, as a symbol of healing. When loss is dealt with, there is healing, as in these landscapes: the clouds have broken and the light is shining, a metaphoric imagery of emotional experience. There is cloud as the scar will always be there to cast a shadow, but there is beauty in grief overcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeaven\u2019s Dance\u201d is a revelation of just how wonderfully Fehr is able to render a glorious sky, and how well she is able to capture the essence of the infinite and fecund dance of sky, the synchronicity with the infinite and fecund human spirit. This sky is an expression of the sublime, of the experience of the artist in an infinite duality of pain, made magnificent in beauty that comes with healing and growing.<\/p>\n<p>The essential halcyon reality of \u201cHeaven\u2019s Dance\u201d is complemented by the massiveness of \u201cWhat is Essential is Invisible to the Eye,\u201d where the vastness of emotional and spiritual experience is what is most important in life; that which cannot be seen is that of most value. These two unite in a third landscape, \u201cGoing Home,\u201d where among the fading clouds, the fall of light, and the last vivid radiance of day on the horizon, there is one white paper airplane, crafted by Fehr\u2019s father, holding steady, gliding into the great expanse.<\/p>\n<p>Life is constituted of suffering, concentrated moments of regret, grief and loss. Loss can cause devastation into grief, and grief might leave destruction in regret. Kindra Fehr is not absorbed in regret, but has taken a massive leap ahead, and uses what she knows and loves, painting, to learn and grow from a transcendent reality that all can learn and grow from.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38423\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr-1-1200x785.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr-1-1200x785.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr-1-350x229.jpg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr-1-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr-1.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201dTaking Flight,&#8221; paintings by Kindra Fehr, is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessart.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Access Gallery<\/a> in Salt Lake City (230 S. 500 West, #125) through November 13<\/em>.<u> <\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paper airplanes are a recurring motif in Kendra Fehr\u2019s current show at Art Access Gallery: lying in a farm field a woman reaches her hand out toward a white paper airplane that sails away toward a stormy sky; a woman dances on an expansive ground, holding strings that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":30276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition_reviews","category-visual_arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindrafehr5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 03:28:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38647,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30273\/revisions\/38647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}