About The Artist

Denise Laws, 3rd generation San Franciscan, raised in the Noe Valley district where she attended The Alvarado Arts Program founded and supervised by Ruth Asawa.  Denise continues to create art, performs and exhibits her work in galleries and alternative spaces in San Francisco and in other parts of the country. In 1996, she collaborated as a puppet wardrobe designer with comedian performance artist Marga Gomez’s “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 in 2009 “Resurrect: The Art of the Reclaimed Object” at the Mesa Contemporary Art Center in Mesa Arizona. She donates her art works annually to a variety of art auction benefits, such as “Winterfest” for The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, “Art For Aids” and “Spectrum” which proceeds Access Institute Psychological Services. She is currently creating work on a 10” square wooden block for “Art Block for Ghana” art auction to be held early 2011. She 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 2001, 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 collaborated and 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. Denise was one of eighteen Artists who were selected to participate in “The Hearts in San Francisco Project 2008” benefiting the General Hospital Medical Center. At the start of 2011 and to date, her work is in Bay VAN (Bay Area Visual Arts Network) artist registry. In 2012 “Studio Visit, A Juried Selection of International Visual Artists “ accepted and published her work in volume eighteen.