"It is usually during those moments that people are themselves," Winters said. "They haven't put up any kind of mask."
Not all of Winters' pieces are portraits of intimate moments; a few are political statements such as Bushladen.
"I painted it during election time," Winters said. "It is based on a painting from the French school Fontainebleau."
The painting which Winters is referring to is Gabrielle d' Estrées et l'une de ses soeurs, a work famous for its provocative sensuality.
"Embracing history of traditional art and modern painting, my heart belongs to a representational manner of drawing and painting," Winters said in her artist's statement.
Woo's work in her instillation, Drinking Your Surroundings, creates an interesting contrast to Winters' modernism.
"I take pictures of old American architecture and then used Photoshop to place them into water-filled cups," Woo (graduate-art) said. "I then combine the architecture with pictures of deer, trees and flowers."
Woo's inspiration is derived from her cultural shock after moving to the United States from Korea.
"Korea is a small country, but I came from a really large city," Woo said. "When I came here I had no memory or cultural background of this kind of architecture or nature."
Through imbibing her surroundings Woo has amassed a collection of over 300 images she has created from photos she has taken that show the boundaries that are created between the artificial and nature and how they coexist.
"I'm like a scientist collecting butterflies," Woo said. "I tried to use just clips and simple frames to stay with that idea."
These images can also be seen through an interactive calendar of April 2004 that Woo composed.
"The animation is calm and slow, which I think reflects my personality," Woo said.
