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#Artist: Danielle Mckinney @danielle_mckinney_

#Artwork: Shut Eye, 2023.

Oil on Linen

“All the women in me are tired” - #NayyirahWaheed

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"Today. I have no profound words or deep analysis. And I have no answers.

Today. I do not have bandwidth to be pastoral or to dry other people's tears or to comfort the grieving or to hold anybody up except my own self.

Today. I am disappointed and betrayed but I am not confused.

Maybe tomorrow I will have answers and analysis.

Maybe tomorrow I will pray for my enemies, most particularly those masquerading as friends and allies.

Maybe tomorrow I will get to the work and to the next.

Maybe tomorrow I will have hugs and tender words.

Maybe tomorrow I will be able to be a wounded healer.

But for today. I am sitting in the ash heap, picking my wounds.

And perhaps you can practice the ministry of Job's friends, and just sit in silence with me." - @leahdaughtry

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#Artist: @danielle_mckinney_

#Artwork: Shut Eye, 2023.

Oil on Linen

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#impressionism #restisresistance

🖤GORGEOUS

Danielle Mckinney | Quiet Storm

Marianne Boesky Gallery

April 4 - 27, 2024

@danielle_mckinney_ @marianneboeskygallery

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Reposted from marianneboeskygallery.com

From Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Quiet Storm, an exhibition of new work by Danielle Mckinney (b. 1981; Montgomery, AL). In this ambitious new suite of oil paintings, Mckinney infuses intimate settings with radical beauty and striking emotional sway. Quiet Storm comes on the heels of the opening of Mckinney’s first institutional solo exhibition, Fly on the Wall, on view at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy through October 2024.

Throughout her intimately-scaled portraits, Mckinney imagines solitary female protagonists—nestled in dream-like domestic interiors—in moments of leisure and respite. In the twelve paintings in Quiet Storm, Mckinney conjures a spiritual—and physical—mise-en-scène. As Mckinney’s figures lounge on velvety sofas, nap in pillow-strewn beds, drag on cigarettes—fully immersed in their own interiority—a storm brews. Rain falls softly on the roof, thunder rumbling in the distance, the smell of petrichor creeping through cracks in the windows. A quiet storm brews internally, as well. Tranquil but electrified, these women ground themselves, corporeally and emotionally, in this moment alone.

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In pensive, cinematic portraits, painter Danielle Mckinney captures solitary female protagonists in moments of leisure and respite. Set in dream-like domestic interiors, Mckinney's figures sprawl across unmade beds, lounge in overstuffed armchairs, and splay on the floor in various states of undress. They smoke, read, and nap; immersed in their own worlds, ensconced in their own space, these women are consumed with rest, with pleasure, with leisure, with being. Hinting subtly at the busy routine of these figures' lives, Mckinney withholds their motivations, their thoughts, their comings and goings—in turn captivating viewers with narratives implied in elusive shadows and revealing details.

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Danielle Mckinney (b. 1981) creates narrative paintings that often focus on the solitary female protagonist. In these intimate portraits, Mckinney captures the figure immersed in various leisurely pursuits and moments of deep reflection. Engaging with themes of spirituality and self, her paintings uncover hidden narratives and conjure dreamlike spaces, often within the interior domestic sphere. With a background in photography, Mckinney paints with an acute awareness of the female gaze, employing deeply colorful hues and nuanced details with cinematic effect. Mckinney received her BFA from Atlanta College of Arts and holds an MFA in Photography from Parsons School of design.  Her work has most recently been presented in exhibitions at Fortnight Institute, New York; Half Gallery, New York and FLAG Art Foundation, New York. The artist lives and works in Jersey City, NJ.