Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing

In this work, two seemingly fused figures function as the central subject of the composition, but Packer’s highlighting of the knee of the figure on the right, establishes a distinct visual focal point within the work. With its hushed grays, blues, and browns the work suggests a certain vulnerability within her two subjects.

Packer has often used drawing as a place for heightened experimentation. Her abstracted forms and frequent use of a highly limited palette, combine to yield drawings that are both distinct from and connected to her paintings. Acknowledging the specific possibilities for her own practice, Packer has said that drawing has become for her “a really fast way to say, I don’t understand what I’m seeing or how I’m feeling . . . a way to kind of place myself.”