![]() ![]() Packer’s unique appeal is in part because she refreshes older concepts for the modern world. This harks back at Dutch “vanitas” from the sixteenth-century that represent the transitory nature of life and the certainty of death. Packer’s floral work is symbolic of the transition from life to death, with a particular eye for composing funeral bouquets. We see a bouquet of smudged mixed leaves and flowers arranged without a vase, somewhat “floating” in stasis. We deserve to be heard and to be imaged with shameless generosity and accuracy”.Īs with the above piece Packer’s intention is wholly political and acts as a tender homage, a “memento mori” and a striking statement. We deserve to be seen and acknowledged in real time. Packer’s themes revolve around racial politics and representation, “My inclination to paint, especially from life, is a completely political one. From 2012 to 2019 Packer’s work has been featured throughout the United States as well as Sao Paulo. She then went onto attain her MFA from Yale University’s Art School in 2012. She graduated from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture as part of the University of Philadelphia. Running from the 5th December 2020-14th March 2021 the national lockdown in Britain has paused the show however the Serpentine Gallery team are working on an exhibition film whilst the gallery is shut.īorn in Philadelphia in 1984, Packer now calls New York her base. ![]() The show includes new paintings created in the last year from her New York studio, as well as rare drawings and past work from the previous decade. The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing is Packer’s offering into the new year, as well as her first installation in an European establishment. Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing Christabel Johanson writes about the American artist Jennifer Packer. As such the show’s name is derived from a scripture in the Bible, “All things are full of weariness a man cannot utter it the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing”. Negley Prize at the American Academy in Rome 2020-21.Packer has previously said she has contemplated the devotion and fixation artists put into the process of creating. She is the recipient of the 2020 Hermitage Greenfield Prize and the Nancy B. Packer is an Assistant Professor in the painting department at Rhode Island School of Design. She was the 2012-2013 Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and a Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, from 2014-2016. “I hope to make works that suggest how dynamic and complex our lives and relationships really are.”īorn in 1984 in Philadelphia, Jennifer Packer received her BFA from the Tyler University School of Art at Temple University in 2007, and her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2012. “I think about images that resist, that attempt to retain their secrets or maintain their composure, that put you to work,” she explains. Suggesting an emotional and psychological depth, her work is enigmatic, avoiding a straightforward reading. Packer’s paintings are rendered in loose line and brush stroke using a limited color palette, often to the extent that her subject merges with or retreats into the background. The models for her portraits-commonly friends or family members-are relaxed and seemingly unaware of the artist’s or viewer’s gaze. ![]() Packer views her works as the result of an authentic encounter and exchange. Jennifer Packer creates portraits, interior scenes, and still lifes that suggest a casual intimacy. ![]()
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