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Shifts, Permission, and the Metaphor of a Bowl with Laura Shabott and Marian Roth
Provincetown-based visual artists Laura Shabott and Marian Roth discuss shifts in their approaches to creating, teaching, and sharing art as a result of the pandemic. With two distinct and wise perspectives, this conversation is dynamic, warm, and a reminder that community and the freedom to create are at the center of it all.
The Provincetown Independent
Laura Shabott Finds Virtual Inspiration for Her Paintings
“What would Hans Hofmann think of Zoom? That may sound like a silly question, but it’s one that is conjured up by Laura Shabott’s paintings at the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, on view through Aug. 8 in a group show with work by Salvatore Del Deo, Romolo Del Deo, and the late Elspeth Halvorsen. Shabott, who was invited to join the gallery this year and who is heavily influenced by the late Hofmann’s teachings, created several pieces in the show during the last few months, using a model who is live online, via Zoom….”
Provincetown Magazine
The Town of Yes
“First, I had to stop being afraid, and this town helped me do that,,” says Shabott. “I had to stop editing myself from being the artist I wanted to be. There’s always something. I don’t have the time. I don’t have the money. I’m starting when some are ending their careers. None of that matters. Im older and on fire to paint”.
Wicked Local
Cape museum honors ‘Hans Hofmann Legacy’
“Provincetown artist Laura Shabott, who studied with Robert Henry, is also aligned with the Hofmann legacy, and will teach a figure drawing workshop at CCMoA on Feb. 7 using Hofmann’s push-pull theory. “While Henry is very much his own man,” Shabott says, “a trait Hofmann encouraged, he taught me fearlessness and how, as a painter, to build form and movement on a two-dimensional picture plane, cubist principles coming directly from Hofmann.”
Artscope Magazine
A Bold Artistic Voice: Shabott at Four Eleven
“Laura Shabott is not only an artist who has undergone what she calls “circuitous” life processes to find herself back at painting, drawing and figurative art, she is also, undoubtedly, an intuitive mark maker, a conduit for a glimmering network of centuries of artistic tradition in Provincetown and a person who greets each day boldly using her artistic voice”.
The Bay State Banner
The Berta Walker Gallery gives female artists a voice on Cape Cod
“Laura Shabott, Provincetown artist and gallery assistant at Berta Walker gallery, explains that during World Wars I and II, when Europe was too hostile an environment for artists to flee to, they began moving to Cape Cod and establishing communities. By 1916, the Provincetown Art Colony was called by The Boston Globe, “the biggest art colony in the world.” Shabott speculates that it’s the raw natural setting and the glorious oceanside light that attracts creators to the peninsula. “A lot of art colonies are at the end of a place, at the end of the world,” she says.”