About the Artist
Kate Knudsen is a painter and visual storyteller based in California. Raised in Vicksburg, Mississippi — amid religious ritual, cemetery wandering, and the particular weight of that place — she has spent a lifetime in creative practice, with painting as her most recent and consuming form.
Working in mixed media on wood panel, she builds surfaces from acrylics, plaster, raw fabrics, and salvaged objects — layering and excavating until an image feels discovered rather than made. Her assemblages function as altars: intimate constructions that ask the viewer to slow down, to witness. Her paintings and assemblages return again and again to what endures — what is carried, what is buried, what quietly insists on being seen.
Sensual, poetic, and at times unsettling, they move through a visual language that is invitation rather than explanation. She trusts the image to hold what language cannot.