Lauretta Crites is an American textile artist based in Porto, Portugal. Her work combines fabric, paint, and dense machine stitching to create layered representational wall works that explore place, memory, observation, and material presence.

Drawing from her life experience between the United States and Europe, Crites translates moments of observation into pieces that read clearly from across a room and reveal their layered construction up close. Her work often moves between natural and constructed environments, where botanical forms, architecture, interiors, and collected fragments become part of a quiet visual narrative.