Act One Art Gallery

Artist Reception:
Friday, August 7
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Live Music & Refreshments

Gallery Talk at 6:00 p.m.

Artist Statement

We are HORSEY, a small family collective from Savannah, Georgia, escaping the
Southern heat each summer to live off-grid in a tiny house on wheels deep in the wilds
of the North Cascades. Our first collective art project, more than a decade ago, was to
design and build that tiny house, a creative act that rooted us here and set the course
for all the work to follow.

Our open-air studio rests on the banks of the Cascade River, where the roaring waters
fill the air, shape our days, and drive our brushstrokes. Each painting is created together,
four sets of hands, eyes, and sensibilities moving toward a single vision.

Pigment, for us, is even more vital than subject matter. Like the river, it carries light
through matter, shifting, refracting, and revealing flashes of the eternal. We share with
Abbot Suger the belief that such light is not merely physical but analogical, a bridge to
something beyond.

Our palette is steeped in the sun, the spray, and the shifting depths of water, creating stewed
and bejeweled surfaces that echo moments when the land and river feel charged,
when life overflows its edges, when time itself is momentarily lost in the current.

We are grateful to the North Cascades and its communities, whose stories and spirit
have become a part of our paintings.

Horsey:
Stephen Knudsen – Professor of Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design
Karla Knudsen – Director/Performing artist, Savannah Repertory Theatre
Ella Knudsen – Graduate Student, University of Georgia
Rosie Knudsen – Senior, Savannah College of Art and Design

Below is a short video of a previous exhibit, unveiled during the Mountain Film Festival in the Theatre. Our thanks to all the artists who have contributed to the displays.