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Jennifer packer drawings9/16/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() We have returned to her works many times over the last few years, and in planning this exhibition, they have resonated strongly with the pressing themes of our time, yet continue to remain deeply personal. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, and Bettina Korek, Chief Executive of the Serpentine commented: “Jennifer Packer’s paintings demonstrate great commitment from the artist and therefore demand slow, sustained attention from the viewer. Through this survey of work the exhibition draws out timely and necessary discussions on racial politics, representation and art history. The exhibition also includes drawings, which for Packer are rarely just a study but hold a weight of their own that differs from paintings. Jennifer Packer The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing Installation 5 December – 2020 14 March 2021-Serpentine Galleries Photo George Darrell Featuring 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. A solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, in 2017 and her participation in the Whitney Biennial 2019 in New York, together with recent awards, have seen Packer become recognised as one of the most significant artists of her generation. It includes paintings and drawings from the past decade alongside new work created in her Bronx studio over the last twelve months. Photo courtesy Matt Grub This survey exhibition at the Serpentine London – The Eye is Not Satisfied With Seeing is the artist’s first in a European institution. Tia, oil on canvas collection by Joel Wachs by Jennifer Packer. ![]() 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 their contemporary Black lives. THE EYE IS NOT SATISFIED WITH SEEING… 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. ![]()
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