In Sanctum, Sarah McKenzie’s third solo exhibition with David B. Smith Gallery, the artist presents the newest works in her ongoing White Walls series. Through her paintings of museum and gallery interiors, McKenzie examines the architecture of exhibition space and the role it plays in framing and orienting our experience of art. The rooms and corridors depicted in these works are at once austere and opulent; makeshift and highly controlled; impersonal and sacred. McKenzie celebrates these pristine rooms and the specific works of art they feature, but her paintings also raise issues of access and inclusion, both for artists and for viewers.