Provoked by the placement of Emma Amos’s art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, an exhibit at the same time as the Jasper Johns exhibit, which seemed to put the Black woman artist’s works subsidiary to the white male artist’s, our contributor Janyce Denise Glasper muses on the two concurrent museum exhibits of Jennifer Packer (at the Whitney Museum and at LA MoCA), and says “Jennifer Packer shifts the narrative to where they (Black artists) can land if given the opportunity.” We hope you enjoy this thoughtful essay by a passionate young writer thinking about the power imbalance in the art world today.
Read MoreNew Artblog Contributor Kate Brock reviews ‘Jennifer Packer: The Eye is Not Satisfied With Seeing,’ a retrospective of the painter’s radiant portraits, interiors, and funerary bouquets. “The lack of dimensional representation of Black people, especially Black women, in the history of painting… leaves the eye unsatisfied… Packer’s vision reveals the historic absences,” Kate says. Catch the show at the Whitney before it closes April 17, 2022.
Read MoreFilled with saturated color and light emanating from unexplained places, Jennifer Packer’s atmospheric works suggest a “provocative harmony,” says Janyce Denise Glasper, in her review of the artist’s solo show at LA MOCA. The show is up to Feb. 21, 2022. Packer also has a solo show at the Whitney Museum right now, on view til April 17, 2022. Be sure to catch this rising star, whose approach to figuration is truly new.
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