Kara Knutson is a painter working in large- scale oil works, exploring how form, pressure, atmosphere, and duration shape the experience of looking. Working from a rural Midwest studio, her paintings occupy a space between abstraction and figuration, where organic forms emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure over time. Rather than presenting fixed images, the work is constructed to unfold slowly, asking viewers to remain with uncertainty and shifting perception. Scale plays a central role as a means of engaging the body and peripheral vision, disallowing attention to settle. Each painting operates less as a statement than as an open field-an apparition- one that resists resolution and invites prolonged encounter.