Laura Wooten

 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.

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