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Kindah Khalidy, San Francisco, 2015. Untitled / mixed media on stretched canvas. 5’ x 5'5"

Twenty-six-year-old painter Kindah Khalidy (@kindahkhalidy) has unscrambled the code of her creative process, and she’s on a roll. “I’ve developed a method of working where now that I’ve cracked it open, I feel as though I have infinite works to make,” she says. She’s hardly exaggerating: In the last year, Kindah has created 3,000 paintings, some of which were transferred into textile designs. Working out of a studio in San Francisco’s Mission District, Kindah is fueled by creating color combinations between comical shapes. “Every time I put a shape down, the next one is kind of responding to the one before it,” she says. “It honestly feels like I’m trying to solve a riddle when I’m making these paintings. It’s part analytical and part impulsive.” Her process can get a little disordered: “I think it’s important for women to make messy looking art, because often it’s only seen as a male thing to make not-so-neat-looking work. I try to make work that’s a balance of perfect things and ugly things and funny things and everything in between.”