How I Made This: Karla Knight’s Otherworldly Art

Seeing Karla Knight’s art for the first the first time, you might think that her work was the product of an outsider artist who’d experienced a close encounter of the third kind. But you’d be wrong on both counts. For one thing, Knight, 63, graduated with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1980; for another, she’s never met any little green men decamping from an extraterrestrial vehicle filled with a blinding light. “I don’t have a personal