Jennifer Packer's first solo museum exhibition in New York features new paintings and rarely exhibited drawings
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Jennifer Packer's first solo museum exhibition in New York features new paintings and rarely exhibited drawings
Jennifer Packer, A Lesson in Longing, 2019. Oil on canvas, 108 1/2 × 137in. (275.6 × 348 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of . Photograph by Ron Amstutz. © Jennifer Packer. Image courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, and Corvi-Mora, London.



NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, the Whitney presents Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing, the artist’s first major solo museum exhibition in New York. Jennifer Packer (b. 1984, Philadelphia, PA) combines observation, memory, and improvisation in paintings and drawings that focus on the emotional experience of Black people and the environments they inhabit. The exhibition features over thirty works from 2011–20, including new paintings and rarely exhibited drawings. Coming to the Whitney from Serpentine in London, the exhibition will be on view in the Museum’s eighth–floor Hurst Family Galleries from October 30, 2021 to Spring 2022.

The Whitney’s presentation of The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing is the largest survey of Packer’s work to date, and is organized by Rujeko Hockley, Arnhold Associate Curator, and Jane Panetta, Curator and Director of the Collection, who presented Packer’s work at the Whitney for the first time as co-curators of the 2019 Biennial. The exhibition title references Ecclesiastes 1:8 and points to the idea of an insatiable desire for knowledge through sensory experience and the significance of bearing witness. Among the portraits in the Whitney’s presentation are works from the Museum’s collection, including The Body Has Memory (2018) and A Lesson in Longing (2019), Packer’s vibrant, rose-hued painting from the 2019 Whitney Biennial that depicts two subjects facing the viewer, equally obscured and revealed by Packer’s application of thin washes and sweeping gestural brushstrokes. Also featured are new portraits created in the last two years.

“Over the past several years, the Whitney has presented significant shows dedicated to a range of contemporary painters, including Julie Mehretu, Laura Owens, and Salman Toor, and we are honored to add Jennifer Packer to this unfolding story,” said Scott Rothkopf, Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator. “Her recent canvases were standouts in the 2019 Biennial, while this exhibition will provide an opportunity to survey the breadth of her extraordinary, still evolving body of work.”

Packer’s work draws on traditions of portraiture and still life, while situating these historical genres within a contemporary context. By depicting her community, Packer often acknowledges personal grief in response to tragedies of state and institutional violence against Black Americans. “My inclination to paint,” Packer has said, “especially from life, is a completely political one. We belong here. We deserve to be seen and acknowledged in real time. We deserve to be heard and to be imaged with shameless generosity and accuracy.”

“We are thrilled to be bringing Packer’s work to a broader institutional audience, especially in such depth,” said Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley. “Her ability to formally reimagine the possibilities of painting, combined with her unique engagement with a personal narrative fused with one around the acute vulnerability of Black life, make Packer a singular voice in contemporary painting.”

Exhibited alongside her figurative work are the artist’s floral compositions, which Packer first began painting from observation in 2012 as a respite between portraits. She applies the same tenderness to these floral tableaux, which reflect the fragility of life and reorient traditions of Dutch sixteenth-century vanitas paintings that historically symbolized earthly transience. Many of these works are described by Packer as funerary bouquets and vessels of personal grief, such as Say Her Name (2017), painted in response to the 2015 death of Sandra Bland.

Jennifer Packer (b. 1984, Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia in 2007 and MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2012. 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. Her 2017 solo exhibition Tenderheaded at the Renaissance Society, Chicago toured in 2018 to the Rose Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. In 2019 Packer exhibited in the Whitney Biennial; other group exhibitions include the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo (2018) and The Studio Museum in Harlem (2019, 2017, 2013, and 2012). Packer is an Assistant Professor in the painting department at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the recipient of the 2020 Hermitage Greenfield Prize and the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome 2020–21. Her solo exhibition opened at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) on July 1, and she will be participating in Prospect New Orleans, 2021.










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