DANIELLE MCKINNEY

Danielle McKinney’s first institutional solo exhibition in the United States, Danielle Mckinney: Tell Me More, is on view at the Rose Art Museum, Waltham. The presentation features thirteen intimate paintings, including two new works, that portray the interior lives of Black women. Drawing from art historical traditions of figurative painting while upending their colonial and patriarchal gazes, Mckinney reclaims and reframes the odalisque motif. The exhibition offers a tantalising entry point into the intimate world of an artist whose powerful vision of Black femininity is expansive, contemplative, and defiantly unhurried.

The landmark presentation is organised in conjunction with Mckinney’s 2025 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award at the Rose. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator, Rose Art Museum, and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University.

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