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.