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A Lesson in Longing
2019 · Oil on canvas
Overall: 108 1/2 × 137 in. (275.6 × 348 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Jennifer Packer
1984
Philadelphia, United States
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Jennifer Packer paints portraits, interiors, and still lifes that center contemporary Black American experiences through close observation and loose, improvisational brushwork. Working primarily in oil with a deliberately limited palette, she creates intimate compositions of political portraits, funerary arrangements, and domestic scenes that accumulate psychological weight through restraint. Based in New York City, Packer teaches alongside her studio practice, bringing sustained attention to subjects often marginal to art historical tradition.
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