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Kindra Crick 🧩
@kindracrick.com
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Interdisciplinary artist + scientist
Creating artwork inspired by neuroscience. Currently exploring sleep and memory.

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I initially looked at the dates of her paintings and briefly thought ‘is this a hoax?’

The work was large for its time and was abstraction before abstraction.

There was a double helix depicted in 1915?! I relaxed when I realized the helix was left-handed and not right-handed as found in nature.
Hilma af Klint’s The Dove (1915) centers on a softly rendered, left-handed double helix formed by paired bands that spiral upward and through a rainbow within a parabola framed by muted blues and pinks
January 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Little hands made cookies and we dropped them off with a few neighbors yesterday.

I get such a kick of dropping off a box of mice.

🐁 🦉 🍪
Hoot owl cookies with cashew beaks and almond mouse cookies with red licorice tails on a plate. White box with six almond mouse cookies with red licorice tails on top of a few hoot owl cookies.
December 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I received this txt Tuesday morning and *just happened* to park in front the oddity shop Paxton Gate when running an unrelated errand.

I thought they just had sculls, taxidermy and crystals. I was delighted to discover that they had an entire section of the store devoted to carnivorous plants.
Text saying ‘I want one of these’ To a photo of a healthy pitcher plant with a caption“The sarracenias seem to be quite happy with all the rain we've been getting, much happier than I am about it! ;-) I think I may need to get them in a larger container as they go into their third year, it's getting a bit crowded!” Glass pot with a crimson pitcher plant. Sp. Sarracenia leucophylla
December 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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This hung as part of a series of human #neuron portraits at the WSU Dengerink Gallery for the exhibit ‘Memory: Cerebral Entanglement’

#sciart #artinstallation
Two WSU neuroscience undergraduates talking in front of a wall with eight overlapping paintings on blue dyed kozo paper with portraits of a human neuron in black ink and underneath an installation of large hanging neurons. #neuroart
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Part of a series painting a few of the 86 billion #neurons which help generate our every sensation & thought.

Used the @alleninstitute.bsky.social 🧠Atlas Database celltypes.brain-map.org for references.

Untangled Series
India ink, colored pencil on hand dyed kozo paper

#SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar
Blue hand dyed kozo paper with a large portrait of a human neuron in black and metallic ink. 37” x 25” by Kindra Crick #art #neuroart
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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This print hung in my grandparents’ living room in California. It includes a handwritten note from their friend, the artist Niki de Saint Phalle.

As a teen it absolutely captivated me.

When I created my print above, it was based on a drawing that I done trying to remember details of this print.
Print of a woman’s head with long eyelashes and with masses of colorful swirls coming out of her head. There are also snakes and hearts. It’s signed Niki de Saint Phalle. With a note: To Odile and Francis “Psychedelic Brain” with love from Nicki <3
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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‘Infectious Ideas’
hand-inked intaglio print
2017

“What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?

An idea.

Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate." - Inception

Day 23 #artadventcalendar
#sciart
Intaglio print of a head of a line drawn woman with colorful bacteria and viruses flowing out. The woman has one blue eye and one green eyebrow. There are two gold headed snakes reaching from tendrils emerging from her head. Originally a contemplation on memetics and the infectious nature of ideas. by Kindra Crick (2017) #art #printmaking
December 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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‘Try to Love the Questions’
block print, gold ink and graphite on an old geological map
18” x 14.5”

One of my anatomical valentines for day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar
#sciart #printmaking #map #mixedmedia #art
Geological map of mineral deposits with various tones of red and pink, with a block print of an anatomical valentine in deep maroon. The map itself gives an illusion of lungs behind the bold heart surrounded by gold pigment. There are annotations in graphite. by Kindra Crick
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Happy Winter Solstice! 🌌 Looking forward to the return of longer brighter days.
Sun on the horizon behind a figure walking on the beach.
December 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The Yule Log was delish, too! 🍄‍🟫
Yule log on a golden tray
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Spoils from last night’s cookie exchange. The triple ginger cookies are perfection!

Still have not tried the macadamia nut
macaroons.
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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“Brodmann's Wilderness - Mt. Hood”
mixed media with reassembled topographic map, carved encaustic on birch panel

Day 20 of the #ArtAdventCalendar

#SciArt 🧠 #map #mixedmedia #encaustic
To the right is a textbook image Brodmann’s 100 year old map of the brain with a Mt. Hood wilderness map reassembled over the different areas of the cerebral cortex. The remapped wilderness brain in greens and blue is carved in relief in the encaustic. In the upper left of the brain map is a mandala like diagram of 100 years worth of glacier melt on Mt. Hood. by Kindra Crick #art #painting
December 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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‘What Emerges in the Night’
mixed media and cold wax on board

Our brains keep working while we sleep, turning over the puzzles of the day and letting new connections and solutions rise to the surface.

Day 19 #artadventcalendar

#sciart 🧠 #painting #art
Abstract landscape in two hemispheres. The bottom contains a night sky that bleeds into the daytime hemisphere above. There is a network of lines and nodes that span the width of the painting. by Kindra Crick #mixedmedia
December 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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For day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar
where is my mind today?

Tangled Memories
Intaglio with spit bite and soap ground
of magnified and abstracted imagery of neurons under the microscope.

#SciArt 🧠🔬 #printmaking
An intaglio etching in dusty indigo blue and white of a silhouette facing right, containing magnified and abstracted imagery of neurons under the microscope. by Kindra Crick #art #artist #neuroart #intaglio
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Nocturne

Emperor Moth in interference blue on black paper for day 17 #ArtAdventCalendar

#printmaking #mixedmedia #sciart #entomology
Block print of an Emperor Moth in interference blue on black paper. There are topographic lines in graphite radiating away from an absent moon with pinpoints of white ink in a star-like pattern. by Kindra Crick #artist #art #pdxart
December 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Finally a break in the rain today! So I went into the woods at lunch for some much needed forest bathing.

Found some winter chanterelles and belly-button hedgehogs. 🍄‍🟫

#mushrooms #fungifriends
Yellowfoot mushrooms growing from the forest floor. Sp. Craterellus tubaeformis Hand holding bellybutton hedgehog mushrooms against a forest backdrop. Sp. Hydnum umbilicatum
December 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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‘Perception’
chalkboard, chalk, pastel, ink on birch panel
24”x 30”

A favorite optical illusion - the simple necker cube. How do we make sense of ambiguity?

#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt 🧪🧠
Black chalkboard with a necker cube drawn in chalk in the upper right. Writing across the chalkboard has been repeatedly been written and erased leaving a dusty chalk halo around the necker cube. One can make out some scrawled words in chalk, including ‘Conflict’ ‘What changes?’ In the lower left, there’s a small white screen print of a phrenology bust with connected blue dots within. by Kindra Crick ( 2016) #art #mixedmedia
December 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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‘Provisional Atlas’
chalkboard, chalk, pastel, ink, and wilderness map on birch panel
24”x 30”

From a series about #memory. Recording, erasing, rewriting, reworking while creating a history; leaving on the surface a gist of what’s important.

#ArtAdventCalendar #sciart 🧠
Black chalkboard with a brain made of a white and green wilderness map towards the top left. Writing across the chalkboard has been repeatedly been written and erased. One can make out the scrawled words in chalk, ‘refine model.’ by Kindra Crick #art #mixedmedia
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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‘Qualia: The Redness of Red’
Pigment print of microscopic neurons and mixed media on paper
28”x 36”

What is the redness of red?

The raw, subjective feel of experience.

#ArtAdventCalendar #sciart #neuroart
#philosophy
Painting and collage with a silhouette filled with illuminated blue stained neurons over a circle of vibrant red surrounded by black with connections of angled thin white lines. “The redness of red" in the title refers to the famous Mary's Room thought experiment in philosophy, devised by Frank Jackson. #art #collage #mixedmedia
December 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Screen print, interference pigment, graphite and ink

“Unsolved in your Heart”
12” x 9”

‘At present you must live the question’

#ArtAdventCalendar #printmaking #mixedmedia #sciart
Silkscreen print with interference pigment of a phrenology bust of a debunked science against a night sky on black paper with graphite and white ink. Words in graphite read 'At present you need to live the question' “Unsolved in your Heart” By Kindra Crick #art #artsky
December 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Block print of an Emperor Moth in interference gold on black paper. ✨

‘Nocturne Gold’
4” x 6”

#artadventcalendar #printmaking #sciart #entomology
Block print of an Emperor Moth in interference gold on black paper. There are topographic lines in graphite radiating away from an absent moon with pinpoints of white ink in a star-like pattern. by Kindra Crick #artist #art #pdxart
December 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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What are the caterpillar-like things within the interconnected swirling vortices?
Detail from an 18th century copperplate engraving depicting different planetary systems surrounded by interconnected swirling vortices
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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‘Reflection’
4” x 6”

Screen print, interference pigment, gouache and ink

Yesterday’s certainties are provisional. Stay curious.

#artadventcalendar #printmaking #mixedmedia #sciart
Image of a diagram of a phrenology head ( from a debunked science) with network of connections in ink overlayed with a pool of blue dripping paint. #art
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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At my Thursday opening, was thrilled that Randall Olson, a neuroscientist studying the Claustrum (a small highly connected region of the brain) stopped by.

When I started my Nocturnal Worlds series I picked his brain about what we do & do not know about brainwaves, deep sleep and REM. 🧠

#sciart
Artist Kindra Crick and Neuroscientist Randall Olson smiling in front of a painting of an upside-down sleeping woman with a wave pattern radiating through her hair. #art #artopening A wall with a painting of an upside-down sleeping woman with wave pattern radiating through her hair. There are two small blue painting on the adjacent wall. #painting #art Three intaglio prints in a gallery Two people looking at artwork in a gallery
December 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The thing that’s cool about interference pigments is it changes.

At this angle the moth is much more blue.
Small artwork on wood desk with pen and pencil for scale. Block print of an Emperor Moth in interference blue on black paper. There are topographic lines in graphite radiating away from an absent moon with pinpoints of white ink in a star-like pattern. by Kindra Crick #artist #art #pdxart
December 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM