Mixed media piece, 12" x 12" x 1" Foil-lined packaging adhered with PVA on 100% rag board, UV varnish, in shadowbox frame under UV plexiglass

Denise Laws' interest in manufactured materials, fabrications, packaging, foiled-lined airtight bags and pouches, candy wrappers, Tetra-Pak, and the detritus that winds up in our landfill, informs her work. 'Mylar Reveries' is an awakening and relocating, of predestined discard, revealing the beauty hidden within disposable consumer culture, re-focusing through a different lens and filter on what we acquire and consume. The everyday cast-offs are re-envisioned, re-cast, and then collage into shimmering motifs, landscapes, and topographies.

She received her BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in the Interdisciplinary Department, 2001 and was the recipient of the SFAI Merit Scholarship. Her final graduating artwork was included and published in the 2001-2002 San Francisco Art Institute BFA Catalog.
In 2000 honorable mention in Best of the Bay Guardian and an image of her work was featured in Zyzzyva, a San Francisco Journal of Arts & Literature. She annually donates her time and artworks to various local and national charitable organizations' art auctions and benefits. She was accepted as a participating artist in The ArtSpan Studio Residency from 2016 until 2018. ""Artificial Quarry"" image is in San Francisco, Root Division's, MFA Never 2016 archive book project. She was one of fifteen featured Artists juried into ArtSpan's Selections Show at The Midway in San Francisco and 2017, nominated for The Fleishhacker Foundation, Eureka Fellowship Grant. In 2019 one of 20 artists was selected to participate in The Ladies Room, Curated by Danielle Krysa, The Jealous Curator, presented by Jen Tough Gallery in San Francisco.

This item was kindly donated by Denise Laws

Artist's Website: www.deniselaws.com

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