Laura Duerwald is an American abstract painter whose works employ combinations of intricate patterns and organic materials to create a tactile sense of place and evoke the natural flux of time, atmosphere, and topography. Their undulating rhythms encourage meditative connections of mind and body, like an awareness of one's breath, and enable constantly shifting internal and external conditions to be embedded in Duerwald’s process and embodied in her paintings.

Born and raised in Dix Hills, New York, Laura Duerwald received a BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University before moving to New York City, where she worked as an illustrator and graphic designer. Turning her focus to painting, she studied at the Art Students League, undertook independent studies in Italy, and earned an MFA in painting from Marywood University.

Duerwald has been awarded fellowships and artist residencies at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the NES Foundation in Skagastrond, Iceland. Her work is represented by Dimmitt Contemporary Art in Houston, Tew Galleries in Atlanta, and Corey Daniels Gallery in Maine, and is held in numerous private collections throughout the United States. She has exhibited in solo and curated exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, and Wells, Maine; as well as in national and international group shows. She works and resides in the foothills of the Endless Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania.