Danielle Mckinney: Tell Me More & Fabricated Imaginaries

Join MA-NMWA for a tour of two exhibitions at the Rose Art Museum, Danielle Mckinney: Tell Me More and Fabricated Imaginaries: Crafting Art.

An emerging artist of remarkable talent, Danielle Mckinney (b. 1981, Montgomery, AL) paints sumptuous, meditative portraits imbued with a sensual and spiritual resonance. Danielle Mckinney: Tell Me More—the artist’s solo American museum debut—celebrates Mckinney’s introspective explorations of Black womanhood, illuminating resilience, beauty, and autonomy. Mckinney employs vibrant colors and riveting compositions to tell stories that are, at once, deeply personal and universally relevant. The exhibition brings together a series of paintings that blend art historical motifs with contemporary sensibilities, creating unforgettable images that are both timeless and radical. Mckinney’s portraits offer a bold and transformative vision of leisure, pleasure, and the rhythmic rituals of the everyday, viewed through a unique female gaze.

Fabricated Imaginaries: Crafting Art presents artworks that occupy a liminal space where art intertwines with craft traditions, design, and unconventional modes of creativity. The works assembled in the show, primarily drawn from the museum’s permanent collection,  reflect diverse global perspectives but share commonalities: they challenge “fine arts” norms and enhance our understanding of the versatility, possibilities, and potential materiality of visual expression. 

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