My name is Danielle McGurran and I make tiny things.
As a lifelong New Yorker, I am drawn to recreating the fading history of New York City’s neighborhoods and buildings with as much accuracy as possible. An abandoned luncheonette, punk rock venue CBGBs infamous bathroom, a Village Voice newspaper box. Weathered, beat up, or forgotten spaces and things are my specialty. When you shrink the city down to fit in the palm of your hand, you allow a kind of shambolic delight back into the universe. In this process, the observer is no longer small in a big world. They are transformed, larger than life, forced into a new uncanny space. The insignificant becomes significant. The familiar becomes unfamiliar. Trash turns to treasure.
In addition to my fine art and private commissions, I have also created miniatures for FXX/The Simpsons (watch a video about it here!) and Cartoon Network. My work has appeared in The Book of Mini: Inside the Big World of Tiny Things by Kate Esme Unver of @dailymini, Downtown Mag, Dollshouse & Miniature Scene, as well as group shows in New York City, Montauk, NY, and Yonkers, NY.
