New York born painter Laura BenAmots considers the world her home but is at home nowhere.

Full of contradictions - isolation and chaos, kindness and brutality - the many disparate childhood experiences shaped BenAmots. Sailing on the last voyage of the Greek oceanliner Queen Anna Maria, her parents, the Kaufmans, moved the family to Israel for her formative years. There they continued frequent moves making Haifa then Ein Hod and finally Jerusalem the family home for a time. She always painted.

BenAmots' formal training began at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, continued at the Tyler School of Art and concluded with a Masters of Fine Art from the  Philadelphia University of the Arts. Her career has included exhibits nationwide; i.e. Bookworks Gallery in Chicago, historic Print Club in Philadephia, Edge Gallery in Denver, and DotFiftyOne in Miami. In November 2008 San Fransisco based Last Gasp Publishers, together with Smokemuse, released  a hard cover book of BenAmots' erotic paintings (Eros On Canvas: the erotic paintings of Laura BenAmots).

Laura lives in Colorado with her 2 sons where she paints and serves as gallery director and tenured studio faculty at the Pikes Peak Community College Art Department.  www.laurabenamots.info