Danielle Mckinney: Forest for the Trees
7 May - 13 June 2026
Boesky Gallery
509 West 24th Street

Boesky Gallery is pleased to present a suite of ten new oil-on-canvas paintings––as well as a selection of watercolors––by Danielle Mckinney (b. 1981 in Montgomery, AL), whose work is now in the permanent collections of the Met, LACMA, the Hirshhorn, and dozens of other institutions. It is the first time Mckinney has exhibited watercolors in New York.

In pensive, cinematic portraits, Mckinney captures solitary female protagonists in moments of leisure and respite. Set in dream-like domestic interiors, the figures in Forest for the Trees sprawl across unmade beds; recline atop sleek, modernist furniture; and bask in afternoon sunlight. Unaware of—or perhaps unconcerned with—the viewer, Mckinney’s women smoke, read, and nap, lost completely in the curated comfort of their sacred private spaces.

Forest for the Trees coincides with a survey exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art, entitled Shelter and on view through October 4.

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More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Artwork information is in each image’s file title. Image reuse must be exclusively in association with press coverage of the exhibition, with the credit line “copyright of the artist and courtesy of Boesky Gallery”