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Laura Karetzky: Liar, Liar
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to announce Laura Karetzky: Liar, Liar, the artist鈥檚 second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view in Gallery 1 from April 19 through May 31, 2025. An opening reception, with the artist present, will be held on Saturday, April 19 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Laura Karetzky's artistic approach involves challenging traditional narrative structures. She achieves this by merging multiple moments into a unified, believable instance, which alters the viewer's understanding of time and perspective. Her works evoke the feeling of simultaneously experiencing multiple narratives, rather than being confined to a single, linear story.
Karetzky鈥檚 double-sided works feature cut-out openings in the picture plane, inviting the outside world in and creating space for unpredictable relationships to emerge. Others are one-sided yet convey a friction of time through layered points of view. In today鈥檚 turbulent political and social climate, her practice interrogates the very nature of truth鈥攚hat it means to tell it, obscure it, or exist within its many competing versions.
A hybrid of oil painting, clay sculpture, woodcut, and sgraffito, her compositions carve paint into relief surfaces, apply ceramic glazes to render illusionistic space, and push the boundaries of the rectangular canvas. 鈥淚 am asking myself and my materials to perform in diverse ways, as one idea becomes several, while exploring the condition of being in perpetual juxtaposition with other spaces,鈥� Karetzky explains. In doing so, her work does more than depict reality鈥攊t destabilizes it, forcing us to confront the shifting, intersecting layers of our own perception.
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Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to announce Laura Karetzky: Liar, Liar, the artist鈥檚 second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view in Gallery 1 from April 19 through May 31, 2025. An opening reception, with the artist present, will be held on Saturday, April 19 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Laura Karetzky's artistic approach involves challenging traditional narrative structures. She achieves this by merging multiple moments into a unified, believable instance, which alters the viewer's understanding of time and perspective. Her works evoke the feeling of simultaneously experiencing multiple narratives, rather than being confined to a single, linear story.
Karetzky鈥檚 double-sided works feature cut-out openings in the picture plane, inviting the outside world in and creating space for unpredictable relationships to emerge. Others are one-sided yet convey a friction of time through layered points of view. In today鈥檚 turbulent political and social climate, her practice interrogates the very nature of truth鈥攚hat it means to tell it, obscure it, or exist within its many competing versions.
A hybrid of oil painting, clay sculpture, woodcut, and sgraffito, her compositions carve paint into relief surfaces, apply ceramic glazes to render illusionistic space, and push the boundaries of the rectangular canvas. 鈥淚 am asking myself and my materials to perform in diverse ways, as one idea becomes several, while exploring the condition of being in perpetual juxtaposition with other spaces,鈥� Karetzky explains. In doing so, her work does more than depict reality鈥攊t destabilizes it, forcing us to confront the shifting, intersecting layers of our own perception.
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