The color temperature can also change significantly with altitude, latitude, season, and weather conditions. It tends to be around 2,000 K shortly after sunrise or before sunset, around 3,500 K during "golden hour", and around 5,500 K at midday. “ Danielle Mckinney: Golden Hour” is on view October 13 to Novemat Marianne Boesky Gallery, 507 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011.The color temperature of daylight varies with the time of day. I'm no longer thinking about what the world wants of me, but rather what I want to say to the world.” I’ve noticed this come through in my work. Being a mother has taught me that there is patience and grace in allowing things to happen. When I became a mom, I had to do something that I had no idea how to do. Being a mother helped me accept these challenges. Trying for that level of control is difficult and sometimes I really struggle when I want an image so badly to reflect what’s in my head, but it doesn’t translate. “I see paintings in my head the same way I see photographs, but when I paint an image, it’s never what I had in mind. Before, I gave them cigarettes because I was also smoking and it was something of an act of rebellion, but now I think of them as representing this ultimate human sensation of taking a deep exhale.”Īs she has honed her skill as a painter over the last two years, Mckinney has learned to embrace the challenges of the medium, a lesson she also faced navigating her new life as a mom. I also do this with the bright orange of a cigarette, but I don’t smoke anymore, so the meaning has changed. They give the atmosphere the electricity it needs. For me, these moments are like sticking something in an outlet. “These hot, red and pink moments break up the moody atmosphere. “My favorite thing to do is paint my figures’ nails,” she says. Her nails are bright pink, a color that appears often in Mckinney’s work. The figure holds a key, its vivid color contrasting the overall dark palette. The latter appears in Eternal, 2022, in which the face and shoulders of a resting woman are shown on a brown couch. While most paintings show entire bodies, some feature closeups with unexplained objects like praying mantises or a glimmering gold key. She also leaves the background black at times, as is the case with Reading Room, 2022, a stunning image of a nude woman lying on a bright blue couch. Underneath some backgrounds are hidden layers of past interiors that didn’t fit the work. I’ve worked so hard to get the figure perfect and freeze a specific moment, and the interior can mess that up.” This is the fun part, but it can also be frustrating. “The figure always comes first and then I create the interior around her. ![]() “It’s important for me to leave room for people to build their own story,” she says. She provides little context for her subjects, ambiguity that allows viewers to create their own narrative and escape into the small worlds captured on each canvas. They are alone, afforded with solitude to self-reflect, rest their eyes, or just exist in a moment of peace. Mckinney’s figures are central to her work. She sometimes weaves in references to art history, like the nod to Henri Matisse in the painting hanging behind a lounging figure in After the Dance, 2022. To create her compositions, Mckinney begins with a black background and builds her figures on top, using vintage magazines, internet searches, and found imagery as source materials. Light and shadow add a Baroque element of chiaroscuro to her work. Image courtesy of the artist, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen, and Night Gallery, Los Angeles. ![]() Light becomes like another figure.” Danielle Mckinney, Dream Catcher, 2021. “Nobody’s awake, the sun is rising, and the orange and yellow light comes in, casting a shadow in the house and setting the tone of the room. “As a photographer, the golden hour was always my favorite time,” she says. Titled "Golden Hour," the show captures the moments of calm just before the day begins. Her latest work is the subject of a solo show at Boesky’s New York location. Mckinney’s paintings, “her babies,” as she calls them, blend her photographer’s precision with a sensitive, contemplative understanding of the experience of being a woman. She has been on a steady rise as a painter, making a name for herself with intimate, candid scenes of solitary female figures, specifically Black women. Since the start of the pandemic, she swapped her photography practice for one devoted to painting, joined the rosters of Night Gallery and Marianne Boesky Gallery, and gave birth to her baby, Charlotte. Danielle Mckinney has had two very transformative years.
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