About
LAURA SHABOTT is a contemporary painter, teacher, and lecturer on Provincetown art history, artists and culture.
Her paintings, collages, drawings and installations have been exhibited at Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown; Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA; Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA; Ely Center for Contemporary Arts, New Haven, CT; Four Eleven Gallery, Provincetown; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, (PAAM); Provincetown Monument and Museum (PMPM); Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro.
Represented by Berta Walker Gallery, Shabott had her first solo museum show, YOU ONLY GET ONE BODY, October 2025 to January 2026 at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Curated by David Henry Perry, this immersive exhibition included large scale works, formal paintings, collages, and gesture drawings from 5 by 5 inches to a 45 foot site-specific installation. Well over 2700 people attended the offseason exhibit, with art classes, a performance, and artist talks.
Shabott is a graduate of the School of Museum of Fine Arts at TUFTS, Boston, with Returning Residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC), Provincetown.
Artists and Models
Artists and Models, at Berta Walker Gallery, about having a life drawing practice over time. The setting is formal; there is a nude model who poses for finite intervals. The drawings are an end expression, a work of art, or fodder and experimentation
All the work is sparked by nature, a person. I am humbled that there is time in my life to work seriously as an artist. A lot had to clear away, mostly within myself, to claim my spot in the creative ethos.
Collages cut, glued, sewn and staples from original work that had not been realized is very freeing. What is incomplete becomes part of a whole that is important to me and expresses freedom.
Home studio photographed by David Dunlap
Robert Henry and Laura Shabott artwork at Berta Walker Gallery
Laura Shabott's winter studio at home
Studio 13 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown MA
Blue Chair Series at Studio 13
New Landings show at Berta Walker Gallery
Gesture no.1 with sculpture by Penelope Jencks, courtesy Berta Walker Gallery
"The Figure as Muse" Solo Show at Four Eleven Gallery, 2019
Laura Shabott's home studio