In pensive, cinematic portraits, painter Danielle Mckinney (b. 1981; Montgomery, AL) captures solitary female protagonists in moments of leisure and respite. Set in dream-like domestic interiors, Mckinney's figures sprawl across unmade beds, lounge in overstuffed armchairs, and splay on the floor in various states of undress. They smoke, read, and nap; immersed in their own worlds, ensconced in their own space, these women are consumed with rest, with pleasure, with leisure, with being. Hinting subtly at the busy routine of these figures' lives, Mckinney withholds their motivations, their thoughts, their comings and goings—in turn captivating viewers with narratives implied in elusive shadows and revealing details.    Mckinney's practice is an ongoing exploration of portraiture, color, and composition informed by an expansive dialogue with art history. Her figures emerge from deep, dark backgrounds reminiscent of Zurbarán's haunting portraits of saints and martyrs. With gestural brushstrokes and flickers of brilliant pink and orange oil paint, Mckinney evokes the work of Matisse while the striking quality of light in her scenes—and its narrative implications—echo the paintings of Vermeer. Perhaps most notably, Mckinney draws on the intense, unsettling voyeurism of Hopper with her masterfully-crafted interiors, occasionally borrowing his compositions directly, yet filling them with her own figures, her own details, her own vision. In these paintings, Mckinney ultimately enchants viewers with her expert handling of paint, the subtle emotional pull of her figures, and her radical commitment to beauty.    Mckinney's work is in numerous museum collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. Her work has been featured in a number of group exhibitions, including Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence curated by Rachel Adams 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. Mckinney earned a BFA at Atlanta College of Arts in 2005 and an MFA at Parsons School of Design in 2013. The artist lives and works in Jersey City, NJ. @marianneboeskygallery & @galeriemaxhetzler Follow Danielle Joy Mckinney on Instagram

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paulina.kemnitz Artist OBSESSED WITH LINES • Tattooing since 2013 Based in Berlin 🖤 Follow Paulina Kemnitz on Instagram

Good kid Gumo nicolas.gumo Artist Paris 🇫🇷. Rayon Noir Gumotattoos@gmail.com . Follow Nicolas Gumo on Instagram

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SEBAS VELASCO has drawn since he was a small child, but only in 2004 he began painting graffiti on the walls of his home town. Afterwards, he moved to Bilbao where he graduated in Fine Arts , getting in touch with and specializing in painting. The artist deals with an enviable technique naturalism. Materials used  are oil, acrylic, spray and pencils. Sebas has been maintaining a continuous activity in the street, painting walls in different Spanish and European cities. It is in the streets where he finds inspiration for his work. He spent some time in Poland painting a great piece in Warsaw  called “ Warszawa Wschodnia (Eastern Warsaw) .” This mural is a typical example of his signature mix between portrayal and local, almost exclusively night time elements. From brickwall texture to bright color tones juxtaposing against weathered color of the building, the well composed mural have a striking appearance within its surrounding. Check out more on Velasco   on Facebook   and Instagram . [h/t streetartnews.net] #mural #SebasVelasco #Warsaw

Priscila and Fernando have been working as a team for over 10 years. Since 2017 they decided to seek out new experiences and ideas around the world. Combining their individualities into art, they create projects that express who they are. Their goal is to translate your stories and experiences into a tattoo, with the guidance of their total creative freedoms. Combining their individualities into art, they create projects that express who they are . https://www.artelabottega.com/ Follow Labottegadellarte on Instagram

Cheon moon South Korea @kodzunak Themooncheon@gmail.com Follow Moon.Cheon on Instagram

Works at El Bando Tattoo in Brasil. His designs are minimalist and very clean. Daniel’s portofolio includes neotribal, geometric and scientific illustration pieces. He describes himself as a hightech tattooist, he is a blackworker and his line work is absolutely impeccable. Check him out below. #tattoo #ink #tatooer #tattooartist #DanielMatsumöto

Timur Fork Art The King of Plasticine Muralist, street artist since 2000 mail@fork-one.com Follow Timur Fork on Instagram

Tattoo artist from Kyiv, Ukraine Based in Dresden 🇩🇪 ▪️ @abstracteti ▪️ @teti_merch Follow Teti on Instagram

Fibs JV 🇵🇷 ▫️San Diego, CA Juvel Vazquez "FIBS" Fibs has been involved in art since 1999 and started tattooing in 2002, making a shift from graffiti to tattoos. Feeling intrigued by this art forms that with so much pride he represents. Graffiti started it all for him, at the age of 14 when he began sketching, tagging and bombing. That phase evolved rapidly into more complex and serious type of Graffiti, Wild Style lettering and production Murals. Being an active writer and part of the movement, Graffiti expanded his mind channeling to new paths. In this journey he found his way into the Tattoo world. Which he describes has being inspiring and a broadening art form.   When he started tattooing it was Japanese style that interested him the most. Step by step, learning the technics of tattooing and growing as a tattoo artist he began to show improvements. After a few year he began working large scales pieces with a more serious pursuit. At the moment he specialize in Black & Grey and Japanese style tattoos. He approaches a tattoo as if it was a painting, the same artistic thought that he gives when he's working on a canvas or mural.  "A tattoo is a piece of art and it should be always treated like one..." Follow Fibs on Instagram