![]() ![]() The artist paints each canvas over a long duration, returning again and again to rework the surface, “undoing” the image, as she says, until a balance is struck. Packer renders fragments of her paintings in detail while she obscures information in other areas through more abstract mark-making or even leaving the surface blank. Perhaps innocuous, even beautiful, on initial view, each suggests a private sorrow that reverberates beyond the fleeting moment of the flowers’ public display. Packer’s floral arrangements recall those of classical still life painters like Henri Fantin-Latour, yet, like her other works, they primarily produce a psychological space. The funerary bouquet provides the subject for another ongoing series of paintings that suggest themes of trauma and loss. Art historian Jessica Bell Brown describes Packer’s scenes as “emphatically mundane and radically tender,” embodying questions of representation, visibility, and desire. ![]() She presents those who sit for her-usually family members and friends- with compassion, foregrounding their individual autonomy and carefully guarding their integrity. Each canvas reads as a self-contained world, its subject emerging from or dissolving into its surroundings. Packer’s figurative paintings are marked by a powerful quietude. Her works exhibit a rigorous engagement with art history as well as a highly personal response to how black bodies navigate within the present political landscape. Like the exhibition title, the juxtaposition of these various modes of representation and production point to possibilities both bodily and emotional, fragile and strong. Tenderheaded brings together multiple strands in the artist’s practice, ranging from portraiture to funerary bouquets.īased in observation, improvisation, and memory, Packer’s canvases are intimate and contemplative, rendered in loose strokes and strong color. in Wright Hall.This exhibition travels to the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University March 2–July 8, 2018.įor her first solo institutional exhibition, New York-based artist Jennifer Packer presents new and recent paintings. Packer gave a public lecture on Thursday, Februat 4:30 p.m. She also visited the Living Plant Collection at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, the Bohart Museum of Entomology, the California Raptor Center and the permanent collections at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. ![]() Each student was asked to bring two works, one finished and one unfinished, to the seminar. On Friday, February 11, Packer led a masterclass of twenty advanced undergraduate painters. She met with nine graduate students for hour-long in-studio critiques. Jennifer Packer was at UC Davis from February 6-11, 2022. Packer is an Associate Professor in the painting department at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has also been included in major group exhibitions, including Prospect New Orleans, the Whitney Biennial and the 33rd São Paulo Biennial. Packer has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Galleries, London, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has also been an Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and a Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Negley Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Packer has been recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the Nancy B. Jennifer Packer is a painter known for her portraits, still lifes and interior scenes. ![]()
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