Artists

Denise Laws

Denise Laws, third generation San Franciscan, raised in Noe Valley where she attended The Alvarado Arts Program founded and supervised by Ruth Asawa. Denise continues to create art, performs and exhibits her work in San Francisco galleries and alternative spaces, as well as in galleries in other parts of the country. In 1996, she collaborated with performance artist Marga Gomez in a show titled, La Puta's Puppets in New York City. She has been included in various juried shows such as CEPA gallery in Buffalo, New York and "The Timmy Show" curated by Jason Mecier.

She contributes to a variety of art auction benefits, such as "Winterfest" for the San Francisco bicycle coalition. In 2005, "Holiday Relief', a benefit for Doctors Without Borders" and "Art For Aids " She has contributed to "Spectrum 2, 3, 4 and the up coming 5" which proceeds Access Institute Psychological Services. Laws has received awards including the San Francisco Art Institute Merit Scholarship. She was a recipient of the "Artists on Line" grant funded through Media Alliance in San Francisco and in 1999 honorable mention in Best of the Bay Guardian. Her Work has been reproduced in the literary journal Zyzzyva, a publication for writers and artists. In 2000, she received her BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in the Interdisciplinary Department. Denise Laws was among the selected student's art in the 2001-2002 San Francisco Art Institute Catalog. In the summer of 2004, Denise performed in "Three", a puppet theater by Orange Alley Production in the New York Fringe Festival. She was a featured artist in July 2006 a solo exhibition titled "My New Panties" at Geras Tousignant Gallery in San Francisco, where she continues to exhibit her work is currently represented.