Jennifer Packer at the Whitney: New York Times Critics' Pick

Jennifer Packer: The Eye is Not Satisfied With Seeing has been chosen as Critics’ Pick in The New York Times. Aruna D’Souza writes:

“While painting her subjects, usually those closest to her, with a deep sensitivity, she allows them to stay just beyond our visual grasp. It’s an act of protectiveness and care that is moving and still leaves the viewer with much to contemplate. […]

It is as if the more the artist looks, the less she knows. But this admission of unknowing — a disarmingly humble assertion from an artist who verges on the virtuosic — is a recognition of her subjects’ complex humanity that can never be contained by mere representation.”

Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing will be on view at the Whitney Museum of Art through April 17, 2022. To read D’Souza’s full review, click here.