Kendra Binney was raised in the small mountain town of Lakeside Arizona.  Here she formed an early bond with the miniscule world of spiders, snakes and all things hiding in the grass.  Practiced in the art of "catching pretty things"  She transfers this closeness with the obscure and unnoticed into her paintings.  Through scenes of dripping landscapes in which birds are remorseful killers, and the trees are unspoken thoughts, she displays her vision of nature, humanity, and the vulnerability of youth. Her work explores the seldom pondered architecture of lives draped in memories, remorse, and fragile realities. 

"Growing up, I was often aware of a contradiction between the real world and the world that was presented to me.   I witnessed the cruelties and callousness of life through veils of soft pinks and candy coating.  Looking back, it's difficult to decipher the two.  The memories are equal parts nostalgia and contempt, beauty and death, wonder and fear.   They are at once lucid and indistinct.  I have used art my entire life as a means to grasp the things that can't be caught.   For me,  my paintings are the attempt at all things temporary and fleeting and that which I can't articulate.

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