Laura Wooten

Laura Wooten is a painter focused on our human connection to the landscape. Through a close observation of the natural world, with layers of memory and invention, she explores notions of time, place, rootedness, and reverie. Wooten earned her undergraduate degree in Art and Architecture at the University of Virginia and continued 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 di 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 shows at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, The Painting Center in New York City, and the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Boston. Laura has exhibited extensively in Charlottesville, including solo exhibitions at Chroma Projects and Second Street Gallery. A passionate instructor, Wooten has served as a guest lecturer in fine art and design at UVA and currently teaches perceptual painting workshops through Phaeton Gallery.