![]() ![]() Her 2017 solo exhibition Tenderheaded at the Renaissance Society, Chicago toured in 2018 to the Rose Museum at Brandeis University. ![]() In 2012-13 she was an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and from 2014 to 2016 she was a Visual Arts fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia in 2007 and MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2012. 1984, Philadelphia) lives and works in New York. To be kept up to date with ticket releases please sign up to our e-newsletter hereįor further information on facilities and access please visit here Listen to Jennifer Packer in Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist Visit our online shop here to purchase a copy of the exhibition catalogue, Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing. The exhibition also includes drawings which for Packer are rarely just a study but hold a weight of their own that differs from paintings. On occasion, Packer describes her flower compositions as funerary bouquets and vessels of personal grief these paintings about loss are often made in response to tragedies of state and institutional violence against Black Americans.įeaturing 34 works dated from 2011 to 2020, the exhibition presents portraits of artists from Packer’s New York circle, monochromatic paintings, intimate interiors and flower still lifes including Say Her Name (2017), painted in response to the suspicious death of Sandra Bland, a Black American woman who is largely believed to have been murdered while in police custody in 2015. Jennifer Packer’s paintings recalibrate art historical approaches to these enduring genres, casting them in a political and contemporary light, while rooted in a deeply personal context. While the casual repose of her portraits is the result of her care for the sitters, Packer acknowledges her choice to paint figures as political, stating: ‘Representation and particularly, observation from life, are ways of bearing witness and sharing testimony’. Combining observation, improvisation and memory, Packer’s intimate portraits of friends and family members and flower still paintings insist on the emotional and physical essence of the contemporary Black lives she depicts. ![]()
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