Jennifer Packer: Every Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
July 1, 2021 – February 21, 2022
Jennifer Packer: Every Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen Studio.
Over the past five years, New York–based artist Jennifer Packer has received increasing acclaim for her portraits and allegorical tableaux, including a series of commemorative floral still lifes. Rendered in virtuosic lyrical style and layered intensity, Packer’s drawings and canvases surface representations of intimacy, embodiment, and loss. They mark an important new direction in figurative painting and were featured prominently in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Organized by MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson, this exhibition presents new and recent works by Packer and is her first exhibition on the West Coast.
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