KARU Studio

Ruta Karecke is a contemporary artist working in monochrome portraiture built from thousands of hand-placed dots. Her practice is focused on discipline, repetition, and full manual control.

She creates large-scale black-and-white portraits of figures defined by difficult decisions. Each work is constructed slowly, often consisting of tens of thousands of marks.

Originally rooted in material experimentation, her work evolved from abstract dot structures into controlled portraiture cantered on consequence and inner strength.

Karecke’s works are not tributes, but studies—examining what character looks like when built, mark by mark, through discipline.