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Karla Knight, Fantastic Universe (And Life Goes On)

Karla KnightFantastic Universe (And Life Goes On), 2024

Oil, flashe, and pencil on paper mounted on linen

42 x 32 in

About the artist

Karla Knight is a visual artist born in New York City and currently living and working in Redding, CT. Her work has been widely exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and she is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art Center, and Emily Fisher Landau, among others. She has been the recipient of various awards and fellowships including The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo Corporation, and two Connecticut Artist Fellowships. Karla Knight's work consists of imaginary language, objects, diagrams, and symbols. It forms a pictorial language of symbol and writing whose underlying system is not known. Simultaneously ancient and futuristic, the work creates an alternative culture which plays with the mystery of life, and what lies hidden underneath.

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