Best Kept Secret

Danielle Mckinney
Best Kept Secret, 2022

Work: 61 x 45.7 cm

The inclusion of Last Call and Best Kept Secret follows Mckinney’s New York exhibition titled Golden Hour where she expands and deepens her exploration into female subjecthood. Depicted in abstractly domestic settings, the figures in Mckinney’s work offer a radical possibility: a space in which a person is utterly free to be themselves, an existence circumscribed in aesthetic terms of their own devising. These figures inhabit a sense of freedom and raw emotion one feels in the safety of their own space. For Mckinney, the spatial possibilities offered by painting are an entry point into accessing universal human experiences and spiritual truths.