New York-based painter Jennifer Packer’s first institutional solo exhibition outside of the US.
Installation view of Jennifer Packer: Every Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep at MOCA Los Angeles On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions NEW YORK-BASED Jennifer Packer ma...
Get acquainted with the work of New York-based painter Jennifer Packer and some of the works in her exhibition, The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing.
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Its quite a feat for a figurative painter to achieve both intimacy and remove simultaneously, but Jennifer Packer accomplishes just that in The Eye Is Not Satisf…
“Intimisms,” a new group exhibition at James Cohan Gallery, looks at the legacy of the Intimists, a group of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists—Jean-Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard among them—remembered for the rich closeness and empathy of their portraiture. The French writer and critic Camille Mauclair defined intimism as “psychologic poetry in painting … a revelation […]
Get acquainted with the work of New York-based painter Jennifer Packer and some of the works in her exhibition, The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing.
Most everything in this show, is unsure, a maybe, might be there, might not be, could fulfill your hopes, might leave them by the side of the road.
Watchful, vibrant and profound, the work of this American artist exudes empathy in her momentous first European show
The Acrobat oil on canvas 2012
The painter Jennifer Packer's compositions lend her Black sitters a centrality and sturdiness that communicates her deep empathy and respect. Read the review.
Born 1984, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lives and works in New York, NY 2012 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT 2007 BFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
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It's the green that really catches my eye; it forms the texture of the sitter's pants. As I keep looking, I notice other detailsthe couch cushions, the strong profile, the palm fronds in the background. The background is warm and diffuse, but rather than look at the viewer, the sitter is paying attention to somethinga phone?in his hands. This is a portrait of absorption; it is also one of intimacy. I'll be honest, the sitter reminds me of my brother.
Packer processes the horror of 2020 into elegiac mood studies that wrestle with exhaustion, fear, and longing.
Jennifer Packer, Vision Impaired, 2015, oil on canvas, 42 1/4 × 53 7/8". JENNIFER PACKER PAINTS intimate pictures. Her source material ranges from photographs to sittings to imagined scenarios, but…
Carolina oil on linen 2011 60" x 72"
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