Danielle Mckinney: Smoke and Mirrors @ Night Gallery, Los Angeles
Night Gallery // May 22, 2021 - June 19, 2021
May 25, 2021 | in Painting
Smoke and Mirrors, an exhibition of new work by the New Jersey-based painter (and Summer 2021 cover artist) Danielle Mckinney. This is Mckinney’s first exhibition at the gallery.
Danielle Mckinney’s paintings portray projections of the self depicted in dramatic, iconographic tableaus. These imagined figures stand in as the artist’s self-reflections, depicted in spare yet richly evocative scenes. There is a timeless quality to Mckinney’s images, which echo compositions across the canon of portraiture without making direct quotations, instead suggesting art history’s lingering influence on the psyche. In the same breath, the paintings draw equal inspiration from social media, incorporating and refracting contemporary photography as it frames narratives of the unconscious. Indeed, the influence of photography can be found in Mckinney s
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