Juxtapoz Magazine – Time Traveling: Danielle Mckinney in Con…

We don’t need to remind you about our love and inspired writing and conversations about and with Danielle Mckinney: she has been the cover of the print edition and a recent guest on the Radio Juxtapoz podcast. Obviously, part of our admiration and interest in the work is the suspension of time in her works, this sort of incredible sense of intimacy, non-era-defined scenes, the solitary power of being alone. They are, indeed, powerful works. For TEFAF Maastricht, Marianne Boesky will pair the smokey, compelling and singular works of Mckinney with Edward Hopper, he too a painter of suspended time and nostalgic loneliness. It is, in so many ways, a perfect duo. 

As the gallery notes, “Situating solitary figures in meticulously crafted settings, Mckinney draws on the striking, cinematic quality of light and shadow and the intense, unsettling voyeurism so characteristic of Hopper’s painting. The ‘palpable presence’ of light that curator Barbara Haskel identifies in Hopper’s work is also present in Mckinney’s intimate canvases.” 

Though the artists worked over a century apart from each other, there is an emotional comparison to be made. They have a sound, they have juxtaposed universes that feel that time on a clock does not matter to either of these artists, but time spent with a moment. —Evan Pricco