![]() 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’. Negley Prize at the American Academy in Rome 2020-21.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. 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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