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Education
MFA Painting Cum Laude, THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART
BFA Painting, CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY
Additional Studies
THE NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL, Drawing Marathon
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, Graduate Program
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY IN ITALY, Florence Italy
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Summer Program
Solo Exhibitions
2007OUTSIDE IN, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica CA
2006FAR SIGHT, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
PAINTINGS, Howard Schickler Fine Art, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
2005RECENT PAINTINGS, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007BLUE, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
2006OUTWIN BOOCHEVER EXHIBITION
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
YOU ARE HERE, The Gallery Room, Jersey City Public Library, Jersey City, NJ
PUBLIC / PRIVATE, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
VITAL VOICES: WOMEN'S VISIONS, Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
In conjunction with the Boston National Conference of the Women's Caucus for Art
2005LOOKING AT LANDSCAPE, MF Adams Gallery, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
AONE, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT
juror: Elizabeth Smith, Chief Curator Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
CLOSE TO HOME, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
juror: Jacquelyn Serwer, Chief Curator The Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC
DNA, theXpo, New Tribeca, NY
TAKE HOME A NUDE, Phillips de Pury, New York, NY
2004BLANCHE AMES REGIONAL, The Ames Mansion Museum, North Easton, MA
REMEMBRANCES OF THINGS PAST, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
NEW DIRECTIONS ’04, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
juror: Tina Kukielski, Curator Whitney Museum of American Art
11th ANNUAL JURRIED, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
juror: Joseph D. Ketner II, Director Rose Museum
LA PETITE XII, Alder Art Gallery, Coburg, OR
WINTER 2004, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
2000NOW 2000, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
juror: Julie Heffernan
Awards
2006ROTUNDA GALLERY/BCAT ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2005THE CHRISTINE DOMBROWSKI AND THOMAS AYOUB AWARD, The Silvermine Guild
2004FIRST PLACE AWARD, Blanche Ames Regional Art Competition, Ames Mansion Museum
Press
20072007 Virginia Heffernan, "The Many Tribes Of You Tube", THE NEW YORK TIMES,
Arts & Leisure, Sunday May 27, 2007
James Servin, "Starting Over, Artfully", HOUSE & GARDEN, May 2007
Bill Lasarow, Marlena Donohue Editors, "Continuing and Recommended",
ART SCENE, Vol.26, No.8, April 2007
Leilani Labong, "Hazy Shade", CALIFORNIA HOME AND DESIGN,
Arts + Antiques, March 2007
2006Beth Bosworth Editor, SAINT ANN'S REVIEW, A Journal of Arts and Letters
pg. 98-101, summer/fall 2006
Adriane Quinlan "Patent Verdict 'Awesome'/An old building gets new life",
THE WASHINGTON POST, July 2, 2006
Blake Gopnik "Portaiture's harsh lessons"
THE WASHINGTON POST, Sunday June 25, 2006
2005Greg Veysey Producer, "Laura Karetzky at Boltax Gallery",
PLUM TV, the morningnoon&night show, September 5, 2005
Philip Eliasoph, "New threads or faded glory",
CONNECTICUT POST, Arts + Travel, May 15, 2005
Philip Beasley-Murray, Artist Entertainment Editor, SOUTHERN NEWS, April 13, 2005
Brad Inman Executive Producer, INMAN NEWS FLIX, Living In America, DUMBO 2
ARTISTS BIO
Originally from Vermont, Laura Karetzky has been a New York based artist for the past 19 years. She has maintained a traditional North Light studio in DUMBO since 1997.
Laura Karetzky has studied figurative art extensively. She has degrees and training from The New York Academy of Figurative Art, Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Visual Arts, The New York Studio School, Rhode Island School of Design, and an intensive one-year program in Florence, Italy.
Although Karetzky's paintings maintain a deceivingly tranquil environment, they have an unsettling inner strength. Her work explores the psychological nuance within seemingly quiet moments. "I am interested in a quietly confident voice or in how a whisper can be louder than a scream." Laura Karetzky sculpts her images with light, using her own variation on a traditional "gray" dead palette. Yet by pushing the contrast of dark and light, she creates a strong graphic composition making her images both subtle and powerful.
Karetzky's painting LeanBack was selected for the 2006 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. She has received awards for excellence in art from the Silvermine Guild and is recipient of the First Place Award from the Ames Mansion Museum. She received merit scholarship for her graduate work at the New York Academy of Art and is recipient of the 2006 Rotunda/BCAT Artist Residency. Her work is collected widely.
"You may be small but you certainly take up a lot of space."
I am interested in projecting a quietly confident voice—in demonstrating how a whisper can feel louder than a scream. By working in a dead palette, I set up subtle grays to make an impact through the viewer's experience in discovering them. This allows me to push the contrast between dark and light while maintaining a deceptively tranquil environment.
I often use backlight or silhouetting. In this way I can treat the subject as simply another architectural element in the space, and force the viewer to look past the traditional focus of a painting and into the deep background. To be far sighted is a visual condition in which one is able to see distant objects better than those at close range. This implies that an individual has developed blinders and cannot see what is right in front of them, whether it be literally or metaphysically.
I use the composition to enhance this juxtaposition by repeating patterns and shapes. In a virtually realistic environment, abstract patterns prevail. This technique compels two viewings for the observer and often finds one coming in close to analyze and then stepping back; thus there is momentum, time, space and intimacy in my paintings.
This work, then, is about relationships. It examines how roles flip from dominant to submissive. It is about push and pull, polar opposites, contrasting emotions. It speaks about vulnerability, trust, guilt and betrayal. It enables me to confront the subtleties of a relationship in more symbolic terms.
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