
“Jennifer Packer: Every Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep”
Curated by Bennett Simpson
Jennifer Packer’s forthcoming solo exhibition, “Every Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep,” straddles two of the artist’s defining bodies of work. It offers a survey of the enigmatic portraits and still lifes that have fueled her rising acclaim (she was featured prominently in the Whitney Biennial two years ago). But it also presents a substantial and arresting collection of never-before-seen paintings—some monumental in scale—that hint at a subtle shift in direction for the artist. In recent years, Packer’s images have often been tinged with a sense of the elegiac; her almost