About
LAURA SHABOTT is a graduate of School of Museum of Fine Arts at TUFTS, Boston, with multiple self-directed Returning Residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC), Provincetown. She is known for working directly from life using sweeping gestural forms, vibrant color and bold brushwork. Shabott’s post-college training at FAWC and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum is evident in her process-based approach. A studio artist, she is a gallery assistant, art teacher and lecturer on the history of Provincetown artists and teachers in the oldest continuous art colony in the United States.
Represented by Berta Walker Gallery, Shabott is widely collected and in the permanent collection of PAAM. Her paintings, collages and drawings have been exhibited regionally with solo, juried or invitational shows at Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown; Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, 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.
Shabott just completed her first solo museum show YOU ONLY GET ONE BODY which included large scale works, installation pieces and formal paintings spanning ten years.. Alongside the exhibition was community programming, art classes, performance, an opening reception, artists talks, performance, and a catalog.
Instagram: @laurashabottart.com
Facebook: @laurashabott
Email: laura@laurashabott.com
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.
Laura Shabott at Four Eleven Gallery
Laura Shabott in her home studio
Home studio photographed by David Dunlap
Studio 1 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown MA
Delivering art in the convertible
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
Gesture Drawings
Blue Chair Series at Studio 13
Working in Studio #1 at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown MA
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
Home Studio in the Shed
Working with Robert Henry, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown MA, 2017
Working with Robert Henry, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown MA, 2017
Home Studio in the Shed
Figure Drawing Class at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Laura Shabott's home studio
Laura Shabott's winter studio birds eye view
Laura's friend Javier picking up his drawing in Palm Beach, CA
Working on Avid with Globe
Blue Chair Series, work in progress, at Studio 13