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In Print

  • Art and Antiques, Feb. 2007
  • Florida Design's Art Galleries and Fine Antiques Volume 1, page 113 Winter 2007
  • San Marco magazine, Summer 2001
  • Orlando Arts, Sept.- Oct. 2002
  • Orlando Arts, Sept. - Oct. 2003
  • Coastal Living Magazine, Oct. 2004
  • Arbus Magazine, March/April 2004
  • The Legacy Magazine, 2005 "Home is Where the Heart Is," by David Raterman
  • FL Design Vol 15, No. 4, 2005
  • FL Design November 2006
  • The Sanford Herald,October 11, 2006 1c-2c View here

Reviews

 
Works by Laura Lacambra Shubert
Monty Stabler Galleries, 1811 29th Ave. South. Through Feb 2, 2002

Laura Lacambra Shubert uses paint with the pleasure of a dessert chef spreading frosting on a cake.

Her paintings are almost monochromatic, high key exercises in capturing dappled or shimmering light over inanimate objects. Pieces of furniture in sparse, large spaces stick in the viscosity of pigment, locked in as the sunlight plays about in pensive warmth.

A few outdoor scenes capture time like a sundial, the light and shadows varying in tone and intensity as they play over architectural surfaces.

These paintings are simple, direct, rich and lush. As visual panaceas, they demand little from the viewer and offer a quiet haven for the stressed.


James R. Nelson is visual arts critic for the Birmingham News.

 

Lacambra-Shubert paintings exude bravura and the good life
Recent Works by Laura Lacambra-Shubert. Monty Stabler Galleries. Through Jan. 31.

Review Birmingham Show 1-04
A promising young artist, Laura Lacambra-Shubert, paints in a bravura style filled with tactile energy. Her ability to catch the effects of light and her concentration on pattern relationships is masterful. A willingness to sacrifice detail without loss of descriptive content recalls the brush work of Edouard Manet and the defining textural realism of Wayne Thiebaud.

This exhibition is dominated by studies of figures, usually waiters or chefs. She eliminates individuality by painting torsos beginning at the neck and ending above the knees. This enables her to integrate the figure into her work as part of a pattern of colors, textures and shapes. The assertive boldness of her compositions is both sophisticated and matter of fact. A woman tying her apron, waiters carrying wine and glasses and still lifes of wine bottles are treated with functional anonymity that the viewer recognizes as true and accurate. Lacambra-Shubert's street views show building facades dappled with the pale light of morning or the strong contrasting light of late afternoon. Something as simple as two bottles of wine lying on a white cloth achieve the impact of two cannons lying in snow. Her fascination with the art of gracious living focuses on the idea of food and wine. These are paintings that convey a sense of well being, of the good life and of deep and quiet pleasures. It is good to see works by a painter who loves and respects what paint can do in describing what is worth studying for pure pleasure.


01/18/04, Arts Columnist James R. Nelson

Shows

 

Upcoming
December 2009 Onessimo Fine Art, Palm Beach, FL.
www.onessimofineart.com

Spring, 2010 Stellers Gallery, Ponte Vedra, Fl.
240 A1-A N. Suite 13, Ponte Vedra, Fl. 32082
(904) 273-6065
www.stellersgallery.com

Solo Shows
April 2009 Stellers Gallery, Ponte Vedra, Fl.
October 2008 Gallery C, Raleigh, NC
November 2007 Onessimo Fine Art, Palm Beach, FL.
April 2007 Stellers Gallery Annex at Neptune Beach, FL.
October 2006 Gallery C, Raleigh, NC.
March 2005 Stellers Gallery, Ponte Verda, FL.
October 2004 Gallery C, Raleigh, NC.
January 2004 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, AL
August 2003 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, AL
March 2002 Robert Thomas Gallery. Winter Park, FL
January 2002 Gallery C, Raleigh, NC.
January 2002 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, AL
March 2000 Stellers Gallery Jacksonville, FL
March 1999 Stellers Gallery Jacksonville, FL
September 1998 La Galerie, Seattle, WA
September 1998 Robert Thomas Gallery. Winter Park, FL

Group Shows
August 2007 Summer Salon Show at Gallery C
April 2007 Huff Harrington Fine Art, Atlanta, GA. "Splash!"
Art Miami 2007 - Fine Art Fair at Miami Beach Convention Center
September 2006 Onessimo Fine Art, Palm Beach, FL.
November 2005 Miller Gallery Cincinnati, OH. - Holiday Show
September 2005 Miller Gallery Cincinnati, OH. - 45th Anniversary Show
September 2003 The Miller Gallery, Florida Artists, Winter Park, FL
March 2003 Ponte Vedra Stellers, Figure Painters
Spring 2002 The Watercolor Gallery, Panhandle, FL
September 2001 The River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
December 2000 The River Gallery Annual Jury Show, Chattanooga, TN
December 1999 The River Gallery Annual Jury Show, Chattanooga, TN
December 1998 First Union Building, Orlando, FL
May 1986 Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
   

Annual or Biannual Paintings Donated for Charities
  • JDRF Junior Diabetes Research Foundation
  • Give Kids the World, Orlando, FL
  • St. Margaret Mary School and Church, Winter Park, FL
  • Trinity Preparatory School, Orlando, FL
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