Kara Knutson (b. 1989) is an American visual fine artist. Her work explores dream logic, shared symbolism and archetypes, the fragility of bodies, and the masks humanity wears. With roots in classical oil painting from a contemporary romantic lens, she uses chiaroscuro to build atmospheric, elegaic worlds that haunt by relying on memories of subjects both real and dreamed- unearthed and half-remembered. She is currently immersed in her newest body of work, What Finds Us in the Dark.

What Finds Us in the Dark is an emerging series drawn from the fragments of memory that haunt our dreams. Since time immemorial, dream imagery has captivated the human psyche. This body of work approaches that fascination through a contemporary romantic lens- where the surreal and the half-forgotten meet.

Series Coming Soon

Kara lives and works in Milwaukee, WI, USA.