Significant support is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch, Further Forward Foundation, and Dawn and David Lenhardt.Īdditional support is provided by Bernard I. Generous support is provided by Judy Hart Angelo. The lead sponsor for Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied with Seeing is the Jerome L. The presentation at the Whitney is organized by Rujeko Hockley, Arnhold Associate Curator, and Jane Panetta, Nancy and Fred Poses Curator and Director of the Collection, with Ambika Trasi, Curatorial Assistant. Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing was initiated by Serpentine and curated by Melissa Blanchflower, Curator, Exhibitions and Public Art with Natalia Grabowska, Assistant Curator. We deserve to be heard and to be imaged with shameless generosity and accuracy.” We deserve to be seen and acknowledged in real time. “My inclination to paint,” Packer has said, “especially from life, is a completely political one. This avowal of both clarity and opacity endows her paintings with the same complexity she sees in the Black sitters that populate her art-and the world. Her paintings, most recently seen at the Whitney in the 2019 Biennial, slide between the fidelity of depiction and the freedom of abstraction. Her intimate renderings of friends, family, and flowers evoke the art historical genres of portraiture and still life, while also highlighting the politics of representation.

Featuring over thirty works from the past decade, The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing is the largest survey of Packer’s practice to date. Interment will be in the Franklin, Idaho Cemetery.Jennifer Packer’s paintings and drawings combine observation, memory, and improvisation. Chubbuck Road, Chubbuck, Idaho on Monday, Decemand from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Decemat the LDS church at 4773 Independence in Chubbuck, Idaho. Funeral services for Rebecca will be held at 11:00 a.m. She was preceded in death by: her husband 4 brothers 1 sister 1 grandchild and 1 great-grandchild. Rebecca is survived by: her 4 children, Vonda (Don) Bahr of Provo, Utah John (Barbara) Packer of Franklin, Idaho Sherman (Janine) of Sandy, Utah Darla (Brent) Grigg of Chubbuck, Idaho 25 grandchildren 75 great-grandchildren and 4 great great-grandchildren. She was always involved and loved the new families she met there. Although it was hard to leave her home in Franklin she learned to love the people in her new ward. In June of 2004 she moved to Chubbuck, Idaho. She made many gifts for her family and loved giving small gifts to each grandchild and great grandchild every year. She loved entering her handwork in the fair and continued until the year she died. She enjoyed doing a variety of kinds of handwork, including: quilting, applique, drawn work, needlepoint, cross-stitch, cutwork, crewel and crochet. She loved to make quilts, entering many in the fair and quilt shows. Long after she returned she continued to correspond with the elder and sister missionaries and the members that she had worked with and loved. This time it was in San Diego where she learned to love the Hmong, Loatian and Vietnamese families that she worked with. In 1981, Vaughn passed away and in 1989 Rebecca was called to serve another mission for the church. She especially loved doing French and Italian extraction for the church. Rebecca was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

IN 1959 they sold the farm and moved into Franklin. Over the next 10 years they welcomed 4 children: Vonda, John, Sherman and Darla, into their family onto a little farm near Franklin, Idaho. The next year Rebecca and Vaughn began courting and were married on November 29, 1940. After Rebecca returned home, she began teaching at North Cache High School in Richmond, Utah. It was here that she met her future husband, Vaughn Packer who was also serving a mission in Texas. After graduating from Utah State University in 1937 she was called to serve a mission in the Texas-Louisiana mission. She attended elementary school in Wellsville, Utah and high school at South Cache in Hyrum, Utah. Rebecca was born March 26, 1915, in Wellsville, Utah, the second daughter of Elizabeth Ann Simpson Shaw and George Thirkell Darley. Rebecca Darley Packer Rebecca Shaw Darley Packer, 98, of Chubbuck, Idaho passed away on December 5, 2013.

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