Danielle Mckinney: Beyond the Brushstroke
Join us for a special event with Danielle Mckinney, the Rose Art Museum’s Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence, in conjunction with her first solo museum exhibition Danielle Mckinney: Tell Me More. The artist, in conversation with Rose director and chief curator Dr. Gannit Ankori, will lead a tour of the show, exploring her jewel-like paintings of Black women within intimate and beautiful interiors. As the artist herself has said: “Each canvas is a portal—a place where I explore the soul, the self, and what it means to be free within one’s own space.”
After the walkthrough, stay for a book launch of Mckinney’s debut book, Danielle Mckinney: Beyond the Brushstroke (Phaidon). This volume brings 50 of her paintings into conversation with journal prompts written by her mother, educator Barbara Mckinney, and includes space for the readers’ self-reflections. Books will be available for purchase at the Rose Art Museum, offering a chance to bring home a unique extension of Mckinney’s art and vision.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Danielle Mckinney (b. 1981, Montgomery, AL) lives and works in Jersey City, NJ. She earned her BFA at Atlanta College of Art in 2005 and her MFA at Parsons School of Design in 2013. McKinney has been the subject of two solo international exhibitions: Danielle McKinney. Fly on the Wall at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy; and Danielle Mckinney: about a moment – in a moment, Kuntshal n in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work has been featured in several group exhibitions, including Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE; When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa; IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY at The Contemporary Austin, TX; and Black Melancholia at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; The Time Is Always Now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; A New Subjectivity 1979/2024 at the Parrish Art Museum, Watermill. NY. Mckinney's work is in numerous museum collections, including the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
This program is held in conjuction with the exhibition, Danielle Mckinney: Tell Me More, August 20, 2025–January 4, 2026, and is supported by the the Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award Fund.