Danielle Giudici Wallis is an artist who uses a wide variety of mediums and processes in her work. She often begins with photography, which acts as a means of collecting. It is a precursor to the physical work, providing her with insights into the imagery she is drawn to; an act of dissection. From there, these ‘dissected parts’ are shifted and distorted through collage or made physical through the sculptural process. Collage is central to her practice, whether in two dimensions or three. She pulls from the familiar, fragmenting and reordering seemingly disparate elements in an investigation of the relationship between the constructed and the natural worlds.

Giudici Wallis received her BA from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and her MFA from Stanford University where she was the recipient of the Murphy Cadogan Grant, the James Borelli Fellowship in Art, the Anita Squires Memorial Fund in Photography and a fellowship from the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited widely in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond including shows at Catharine Clark Gallery, Mark Wolfe Gallery, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, The San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, The Bedford Gallery, Raid Projects in Los Angeles, A.I.R. in New York, The Riverside Art Museum, The Urawa Art Museum in Japan, and The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, which holds one of her artist’s books in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts collection.