![]() As a response to tragedies and crises within the Black community, Packer often creates these symbolic offerings. 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”. Published on the occasion of the exhibition, ‘The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing’ at Serpentine Galleries, London (spring/summer 2021).Packer has previously said she has contemplated the devotion and fixation artists put into the process of creating. Richly illustrated and designed by Roland Brauchli, it includes texts by Rizvana Bradley, Dona Nelson, Christina Sharpe, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and an interview between Jennifer Packer and Serpentine Artistic Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist. We deserve to be heard and to be imaged with shameless generosity and accuracy.” – Jennifer PackerĬombining 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. “My inclination to paint, especially from life, is a completely political one. New York-based painter, Jennifer Packer recalibrates art historical approaches to portraiture and still life, casting these enduring genres in a fresh political and contemporary light, while keeping them rooted in a deeply personal context. It really is as good as art gets.” – ***** Will Gompertz, BBC Arts “…go to the Serpentine Gallery to see this outstanding Jennifer Packer exhibition.
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