Art exhibition - Lisa Law: Flashing on the Sixties January 6, 2012

Lisa Law: Flashing on the Sixties

Lisa Law: Flashing on the Sixties, will be on view in the Byers-Evans House Gallery, located at 1310 Bannock Street in Denver, January 6 through February 29, 2012. A free opening reception will be held in the gallery on Friday, January 6 from 5 to 9 p.m. in conjunction with the Golden Triangle Museum District’s First Friday Art Walk. Lisa Law will present a gallery talk on the works in the exhibition starting at 6:30 and will be signing her books Flashing on the Sixties, Interviews with Icons and her award winning DVD, Flashing on the Sixties-A Tribal Document, as well. This is a good opportunity to bedeck yourself with your best Sixties attire. A love in!

Lisa Law’s career as a photographer began in the early Sixties. With her new Honeywell Pentax camera in hand and working as an assistant to The Kingston Trio manager Frank Werber. Lisa captured the genesis of a new era. Backstage with The Beatles, Peter. Paul & Mary, The We Five, Otis Redding, The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Velvet Underground, and The Byrds; taking promotional photographs of Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company; at home making dinner for house guests like Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Nico and Barry McGuire; and helping feed hundreds of thousands at Woodstock with the Hog Farm Commune at the free kitchen, her passion for photography grew into a profession.

In the mid-Sixties Lisa lived in San Francisco and captured the life of the flower children in Haight-Ashbury. She carried her new Nikon camera wherever she went, documenting the Human Be-In, spotlighting Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and the Grateful Dead, and the anti-Vietnam march in San Francisco, Monterey Pop Festival, and meetings with the Diggers. She then joined those who migrated to the communes of New Mexico in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Wavy Gravy, and Ram Dass use her photographs consistently today.

Since that time, Lisa has specialized in documenting history as she has experienced it on a daily basis. As a writer, photographer and social activist and mother of four, her work reveals distinctive communities of people. She uses her camera as a powerful tool to champion the rights of indigenous nations, bringing to a wide audience riveting insights into their cultures just as she did during the social revolution of the Sixties.

As a photographer and documentarian, Lisa's perspective is rare and unique. From the reservations of Arizona and New Mexico to up front with the Barack Obama Campaign, she is welcomed as a friend and participant, thus allowing her images to reflect a sense of intimacy and spontaneity rarely seen by "outsiders."

Listing/PSA

What: Lisa Law: Flashing on the Sixties

Where: The Byers-Evans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock Street, Denver

When: Jan. 6 - Feb. 29 2012 Gallery open daily, Mon.–Sat., 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

Special events: Opening reception on January 6, from 5-9 p.m.; Gallery Talk and book signing by Lisa Law at 6:30 p.m.

Evening reception during the Golden Triangle Museum District’s First Friday Art Walks, February 3, from 5-9 p.m. Cost: Gallery admission is free. Byers-Evans House Museum is Open daily, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Sundays. Guided house tours 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Admission charged for tours. For further information, visit www.byersevanshousemuseum.org or call (303) 620-4933.