Danielle Dwyer, whose work was seen in a one-person exhibition in Allston Skirt Gallery’s Mini Skirt in April 2002, is best known for her tiny paintings based on family snapshots, painted on postage stamps with just enough detail - captured in the thrust of an arm or the tilt of a head - to make them jarringly specific, and lacking just enough detail to make them eerily generic. Now, she explores her deeply personal subject matter on large-scale canvases, heightening the tension between the observed reference to a photograph and the painting as an image unto itself. Dwyer’s work feels very “inside” - inside the family, inside the home, inside the hearts and minds of her subjects. Still, the external cues her subjects give, from a pattern on a bedspread to images of plants and flowers, as well as the large scale of the new work, implicate something that goes beyond the individual in these images, and points to an outer reality. Dwyer graduated from Skidmore College in 1998, and has studied painting at the Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy. Her work has recently been seen in group shows at The Gallery @ Green Street in Jamaica Plain, MA and at Mixture Contemporary Art in Houston, TX.
Karla Wozniak focuses her attention on the contemporary built environment, creating drawings, paintings and collages depicting urban and suburban spaces that are at once architectural, formal, sociological, historical and romantic. Drawn from the vantage point of her studio or other real-world locations, Wozniak looks “outside” for her source material, then imposes a variety of historical painting styles and imagery onto what she sees, moving back and forth between literal landscapes and abstract, alien elements with their own formal rules and spatial structures. Wozniak will receive her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2005. She attended Skowhegan School of Paintings and Sculpture and the Vermont Studio Center in 2003, and received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. Her work has been seen recently in a group exhibition curated by Ryan Kitson in Brooklyn, NY.