LAURA KARETZKY Short Stories September 7 – October 26, 2013
“My recent series “Short Stories” reflects my deep interest in those times in our lives when we feel like outsiders to ourselves—those sequences, when we are experiencing something unanticipated, when we feel as though we are mere observers to our own circumstance.” - Laura Karetzky
Lora Schlesinger Gallery is proud to present Short Stories, a new series of paintings by Laura Karetzky. The show is her fourth solo exhibition at Lora Schlesinger Gallery. Laura Karetzky’s new paintings comprise a visual diary captured in stolen glimpses. The work reflects the artist’s deep interest in depicting those moments in our lives when we feel outside our own being - like a spectator viewing herself from afar. By seizing unexpected, often ambiguous events, Karetzky invites us into scenes filled with possibilities and questions, but never conclusions. Through the use of multiple layers of transparent paint and obsessive mark-making, Karetzky creates a sense of time, allowing the viewer to linger in awkward junctures. The artist creates a rhythm of persistent shapes and patterns that are deliberately at odds with illusionistic space. By bridging the techniques of precise control and loose painterly gestures, the pictures offer rich surfaces that capture fleeting moments. Laura Karetzky’s work has been displayed at Arte Laguna in Venice, Italy and at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. She is a recipient of the Yaddo Colony Artist Residency fellowship, Rotunda Gallery/BCAT Artist Residency and was named a BRIC (Brooklyn Information and Culture) Artist Honoree. Karetzky has received awards of distinction from the Silvermine Guild, in New Canaan CT, The Eric Fischl award of distinction from the New York Academy of Art, and First Place in the Blanche Ames Regional Art Competition. Her education includes: degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and the New York Academy of Figurative Art, and training from the School of Visual Arts, The New York Studio School, Rhode Island School of Design, and extensive study in Florence Italy.
After Reading, 2012, oil on linen, 50 x 65� SOLD
The 3Ls, 2013, oil on linen, 50 x 60” SOLD
In Arrears, 2011, oil on wood, 16 x 20”
Saint Ann’s, 2012, oil on wood, 6 x 6”
Shaddo, 2013, oil on wood, 18 x 24”
Nectar, 2013, oil on linen, 50 x 60� SOLD
128 Willow Corps, 2012, oil on wood, 16 x 12” SOLD
Olga, 2012, oil on wood, 14 x 11” SOLD
Opening, 2012, oil on wood, 16 x 12�
Nina’s, 2012, oil on wood, 13-3/4 x 10-3/4”
75 Henry, 2012, oil on linen, 50 x 65” SOLD
Cloisters, 2012, oil on wood, 14 x 11�
Diadoumenos, 2011, oil on wood, 14 x 11�
Point of View, 2012, oil on wood, 6 x 6”
I Love Mine, 2012, oil on wood, 12 x 12�
Jasmin’s, 2012, oil on wood, 12 x 12”
LAURA KARETZKY Education MFA Painting Cum Laude, 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, DIPA, Florence Italy Rhode Island School of Design, Summer Program
Solo Exhibitions 2013 Short Stories Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2011 Said What?, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2008 AWOL, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2007 Outside In, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA 2006 Far Sight, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Surrogate, Howard Schickler Fine Art, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY 2005 Two Down, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions 2013 Single Fare 3, RH Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Small Paintings, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2011 NYAA Summer, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY 2011 A Fork in the Road, Katonah Museum Arts Association, Katonah, NY 2011 Arte Laguna, Nappe dell’Arsenale, Venice, Italy 2011 Single Fare: Please Swipe Again, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY 2009 Brookyn Art:Work, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2009 Toys, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2008 Border Walls, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY 2007 Blue, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Outwin Boochever Exhibition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC 2006 You Are Here, The Gallery Room, Jersey City Public Library, Jersey City, NJ 2006 Public/Private, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Vital Voices: Women’s Visions, Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 2005 Looking At Landscape, MF Adams Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2005 AONE, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT 2005 DNA, theXpo, New Tribeca, NY 2005 Take Home A Nude, Phillips de Pury, New York, NY 2004 Blanche Ames, The Ames Mansion Museum, North Easton, MA 2004 La Petite XII, Alder Art Gallery, Coburg, OR 2004 Winter 2004, Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), Brooklyn, NY
Awards 2011 Yaddo Colony Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY 2009 Gala Artist Honoree, Brooklyn Art:Work, BRIC 2009 Eric Fischl Award of Distinction, NYAA 2009 Priciple Gallery, Visiting Artist 2006 Rotunda Gallery/BCAT Artist in Residence 2005 The Christine Dombrowski and Thomas Ayoub Award, The Silvermine Guild 2004 First Place Award, Blanche Ames Regional, Ames Mansion Museum
Press 2012 Joann Kim Nunez, “Dumbo Arts Festival: A Recap”, Hyperallergic, October 2, 2012 2011 Stephen Pierson Publisher, “The State of Creation”, Canteen Magazine, September 2011, Issue Seven 2011 Daniella Walsh, “Previews of Exhibitions”, Laura Karetzky, Art Scene, April 2011, Vol. 30 No. 8 2009 Gail Leggio, “Exhibitions: Laura Karetzky”, American Arts Quarterly, Winter 2009, Vol. 36 No. 1 2009 Samuel Toole Producer, “Laura Karetzky”, Documentary Short Film, Ghost and Bread, July 22 2008 Laura Caparotti, "Gli Artisti Di Dumbo", New York Magazine (Italian), Arts & Museums, November 2007 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 2006 Beth 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, “Portraiture’s Harsh Lessons”, The Washington Post, Sunday June 25 2005 Greg 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, Living In America, DUMBO 2, Inman News Flix