A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...Drawing from art historical traditions of figurative painting while upending their colonial and patriarchal gazes, Mckinney reclaims and reframes the odalisque motif. In some works, nude figures lounge with unguarded confidence, asserting agency and control in the act of being seen. In others, she depicts women in richly appointed rooms filled with books, textiles, and artworks—spaces of reflection and ritual. These are not passive subjects but women suspended in self-contained and self-created worlds, their gestures, expressions, and environments imbued with emotional charge and self-empowerment..."
