Reading List: Jennifer Packer
A reading list compiled by Jennifer Packer, together with curators Melissa Blanchflower and Natalia Grabowska that have influenced Packer’s work and expand on the themes of her Serpentine exhibition, The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing.
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Ed. Ruth Erickson, Kevin Beasley (ICA Boston)
Charles Gaines, Laurence Rassel, Greg Tate, Kerry James Marshall (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman?
Audre Lorde, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
Isabella Maidment & Andrea Schlieker, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night
Denise Murrell, Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today | Le Modèle noir, de Géricault à Matisse (Musée d’Orsay and Columbia, NY)
Claudia Rankine, Citizen
Sebastian Schütze, Caravaggio. The Complete Works
Christina Sharpe, In The Wake: On Blackness and Being
Robert Storr, Philip Guston, A Life Spent Painting
Kehinde Wiley (Rizzoli)
Whitney Biennial 2019 catalogue
Ed. Lydia Yee, Cameron Foote and Candy Stobbs, Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium (Whitechapel)
Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing exhibition catalogue. Purchase your copy here.
