Jennifer Packer review: a painter of abundant gifts
Sun 3 Jan 2021 04.00 EST Eric leans back in his chair, lost in thought, posing for the painter. He wears conspicuously odd socks and purple laced shoes. Objects seem to drift around him like figments in the ambient glow of the studio, or perhaps it’s the atmosphere of the painting itself, with its veils of gold and ochre. Everything is at once so distinct, from Eric’s sidelong gaze, to the stiff folds of his jacket, and yet so abstracted. The portrait seems to partake of its subject’s pensiveness. Eric Mack is a painter too, and a friend of the black American artist Jennifer Packer. Eve...
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