Laura Shabott, Artist/Teacher

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Web Name: Laura Shabott, Artist/Teacher

WebSite: http://laurashabott.com

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I was introduced to Abstract Expressionist teacher Hans Hofmann (1883-1968) through connections at Berta Walker Gallery. This experience unlocked a painter in me that I had been waiting to meet for a long time. In keeping with the Hofmann tradition of pushing and pulling a two-dimensional surface, I make paintings that have an energy, a kind of animus that goes from my mind and heart through my hand with a brush loaded with oil paint and pigment sticks.Drawing with charcoal from a model with a group of like-minded people who meet weekly forms the foundation of my art. These drawings are, in themselves, complete and are the fodder for works on canvas, wood, and paper. Another part of my art is teaching people who are ready to paint and draw after a lifetime of careers, children, making money, making choices, waiting. This is their time and I am their portal into a world of art by sticking a piece of charcoal in their hands and saying “GO!”In the drawing Room Series, 2020, oil on wood, 12ish x 12ish (Measure twice, cut once.)#1 (seated woman) at Castle Hill, Truro#5 aka Time Slipping Away (man, woman, barstool) at PAAM, Provincetownsold #2 (man facing window, woman, dancing easels) at PAAM, Provincetown Laura Shabott PO Box 1418,Provincetown, MA 02657 1-508-246-8087 laura@laurashabott.com ©2018

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Shabott creates paintings, collages and drawings that are "speaking with intentional gesture in visual vocabulary all her own." says arts writer Emily Mergel. Living and working in the arts colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts, she teaches adults the Hans Hofmann theory of push/pull in painting, drawing and collage courses. Shabott is married to Jacques Macara, a Provincetown native.

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