Laura Wooten

  • Selected Works

    Blue Ridge Landscape No. 2 (Clearing), acrylic on panel, 60 x 48″

    Blue Ridge Landscape No. 3 (Purple Storm), acrylic on panel, 60 x 48″

    Spring Cherry: Neighborhood View. Oil on panel, 24 x 24″

    Green Crescent with Iris, 2017. Oil on panel, 12 x 12″

    Begonia Pot, 2017. Oil on panel, 12 x 12″

    Berkeley Garden Wall, 2017. Acrylic on panel, 8 x 10″

     

  • Curriculum Vitae

     

     LAURA WOOTEN

    Solo Exhibitions: 

    2019 Spirit of Place: Landscapes Real and Imagined 

    Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA 

    2017 Blue Ridge Landscapes 

    Cunningham Creek Winery, Palmyra, VA 

    2016 Blue Ridge Landscapes 

    GallerIX at the IX Art Park, Charlottesville, VA 

    2013 My Suburban Life: A Year in Collage 

    The Arts Center in Orange, VA, Curated by Pam Black and Theo van Groll 

    2013 Momentum: Paintings and Collages 

    WriterHouse, Charlottesville, VA, Curated by Callie Herod 

    2010 New Work, featuring the Momentum Series 

    The Arts Center in Orange, VA, Curated by Pam Black and Theo van Groll 

    2008 New Paintings: Woods Series 

    Andrea Wynne, Downtown Design Center, Charlottesville, VA 

    2006 – present Mediterranean Landscapes, ongoing Solo Exhibition 

    Orzo Kitchen and Wine Bar, Charlottesville, VA 

    2000 Imaginary Lands 

    Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA 

    1998 New Work, Visiting Faculty Exhibition 

    Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 

    Select Group Exhibitions: 

    2019 No Place Like Home, 

    The Mosesian Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 

    2018 Teeny Tiny Trifecta, Small Works Exhibition 

    Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville VA 

    2018 You Are Here – Landscape/Cityscape, 

    The Mosesian Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 

    2018 Paperworks 2018, The Inventive Eye: Observation, Transformation & the Art of Seeing, 

    Upstream Gallery, Hastings-On-Hudson, NY 

    2017 Biggs Picture, Juried Landscape Exhibition, curated by Jason Rosenfeld 

    Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE 

    2017 Neighbors, WVTF and Radio IQ Studio Gallery, 

    in partnership with New City Arts, the UVA Institute for the Humanities & Global Cultures’ Humanities Week and UVA Arts, Charlottesville, VA 

    2017 New City Artists Exchange Exhibit 

    Welcome Gallery, New City Arts Initiative, Charlottesville, VA 

    2016 In a Mediterranean Mood, Drawings, Paintings, and Prints, 

    Two-person exhibition with travel photographer John Bice, 

    The Arts Center in Orange, VA 

    2012 UVA Alumni Painters of the Commonwealth 

    Capital One, Richmond VA, Curated by Megan Marlatt 

    2012 Sanctuary, Passage Gallery 

    Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA 

    2007 Maryland Artists Equity Foundation Winners Circle 

    Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD 

    2003 Aunspaugh, Reunion Group Show of Aunspaugh Fellows 

    Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 

    2001 Artists’ Books and Folios, A collaborative folio by UVA alumni & faculty 

    Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia School for the Arts, NY, NY 

    2000 Get Surreal: Reviving the Exquisite Corpse, collaborative work 

    Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 

    2000 Hindsight/Fore-sight: Painting in the Year 2000 

    Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA 

    2000 Four Painters, 

    ALC Copies, Charlottesville, VA 

    2000 Lost in the Labyrinth, Printmakers Exchange Portfolio Exhibition 

    Newcomb Hall Artspace, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 

    1999 Rough House, 

    The Orange Chicken, New York, NY 

    1999 Faculty Exhibition, 

    Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia 

    1998 Faculty Exhibition, 

    Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia 

    1998 Rough House, 

    Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, NY 

    1997 Unseen Realms: The Intimate Imagination, 

    Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY 

    Education: 

    1997 MFA Painting and Printmaking, 

    American University, Washington D.C. 

    1996 American University Studio Art Summer Program 

    Accademia de Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci, Perugia, Italy 

    1995 Aunspaugh Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship in Studio Art 

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 

    1994/5 Summer Studies in Painting 

    Chautauqua Institution School of Art, Chautauqua, NY 

    1994 BS Architecture and Studio Art 

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 

    Bibliography: 

    2017 Design work featured in the book, Print & Pattern Nature by Bowie Style, 

    text by Marie Perkins, Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London 

    2016 Elizabeth Derby, “Serving the Arts: Galleries meet Dining in Local Restaurants”, review of New Mediterranean Landscapes at Orzo Kitchen & Wine Bar, 

    Cville Weekly, Charlottesville, VA 

    2013 My Suburban Life: A Year in Words and Pictures 

    Self-published monograph documenting my 2012 collage project, 

    featuring 52 weeks of drawing, collage, and personal essays. 

    2000 Johanna Bauman PhD., Essay accompanying Imaginary Lands, 

    Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA 

    1999 Paul Ryan, Review of New Work at Fayerweather Gallery, 

    Art Papers, March/April 1999 

    1998 Ruth Latter, Art World Column, Review of New Work Exhibition The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA 

    1998 Andrew Smith, “Escape the Maze”, Review of New Work Exhibit, 

    C-ville Weekly, Charlottesville, VA 

    1998 Johanna Bauman PhD., Essay accompanying New Work Exhibition, Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia 

    Teaching Experience: 

    December 2018 Guest Juror, Design Thinking 4th Year Studio Final Review, 

    UVA School of Architecture, Charlottesville VA 

    March 2018 Visiting Speaker, Foundations in Design Thinking, 

    “Reinventing the Landscape through Creative Practice.” 

    UVA School of Architecture, Charlottesville VA 

    Oct 2017 Guest Instructor, Outdoor Foundation Drawing and Plein Air Painting 

    The Blue Ridge School, St. George, VA 

    May 2017 Visiting Speaker, Foundations in Design Thinking, 

    UVA School of Architecture, Charlottesville VA 

    Nov 2010 Second Street Gallery Community Outreach, Jackson-Via Elementary 

    Landscape Collage workshop with Fourth Grade classes 

    Aug 2010 Guest Critic, Summer Design Institute w/Pam Black, UVA School of Architecture 

    Drawing course for incoming Graduate Architecture and Landscape Arch students 

    2008-10 Art Prints Program, Hollymead Elementary 

    Art enrichment workshops for Kindergarten thru Second Grade classes 

    2000 Figure Painting Co-instructor with Pam Black 

    Introduction to Oil Painting, Introduction to Watercolor, Instructor 

    Summer Semester, Piedmont Virginia Community College 

    1999-00 Introduction to Painting, Co-instructor with Pam Black 

    Fall and Spring Semesters, Piedmont Virginia Community College 

    1999 Cheeses of the World, Tasting Seminar Instructor 

    University of Virginia Short Course, Charlottesville 

    1999 Beginning Painting Instructor 

    Summer Session, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 

    1998 Foundation Drawing Instructor, Visiting Artist 

    Fall Semester, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 

    1996-7 Foundation Drawing/Painting, Advanced Intaglio 

    Graduate Teaching Assistant, American University 

  • Biography

    Laura Wooten is an artist focused on our human connection to the landscape. She earned her undergraduate degree in Art and Architecture at the University of Virginia and continued on at UVA as an Aunspaugh Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Studio Art before earning her MFA from American University. She attended a summer program in Perugia, Italy, at the Accademia de Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci, where the panoramic Mediterranean landscape took hold of her imagination. Her landscape paintings have been exhibited across the East Coast, including juried exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Delaware, and the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Boston. Laura has taught painting and drawing at the University of Virginia and Piedmont Community College, and has guest lectured at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Through a close observation of the natural world, with layers of memory and invention, Laura explores the inner and outer landscape of our experience and how it might be shared. Her collection of Mediterranean Landscape paintings is currently on display at Orzo Kitchen & Wine Bar in Charlottesville, VA.

     

  • Articles and Reviews

    Bibliography:

     

    2017 Design work featured in the book, Print & Pattern Nature by Bowie Style,
    text by Marie Perkins, Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London

    2016 Elizabeth Derby, “Serving the Arts: Galleries meet Dining in Local Restaurants”, review of New Mediterranean Landsca pes at Orzo Kitchen & Wine Bar,Cville Weekly, Charlottesville, Virginia

    2013 My Suburban Life: A Year in Words and Pictures, Laura Wooten
    Monograph documenting my 2012 collage project featuring 52 weeks of drawing, collage, and personal essays.

    2000 Johanna Bauman PhD., Essay accompanying Imaginary Lands, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, V irginia

    1999 Paul Ryan, Review of New Work at Fayerweather Gallery,
    Art Papers, March/April 1999

    1998 Ruth Latter, Art World Column, Review of New Work Exhibition The Daily Progress , Charlottesville, Virginia .

    1998 Andrew Smith, “Escape the Maze”, Review of New Work Exhibit, C – ville Weekly , Charlottesville, Virginia.

    1998 Johanna Bauman PhD., Essay accompanying New Work Exhibition, Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia.