THE EYE IS NOT SATISFIED WITH SEEING: Edited by Melissa Blanchflower and Natalia Grabowska

London: Serpentine, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Through a uniquely textural style of oil painting that evokes the fluidity of watercolors, Jennifer Packer (b.1984) recasts classical genres in a fresh political and contemporary light while keeping them rooted in a deeply personal context. Combining observation, improvisation, and memory, Packer's intimate portraits of friends and family members and flower paintings insist on the particularity of the Black lives she depicts. The title of this volume refers to an ecclesiastical description of the insatiable human quest for divine knowledge; with this in mind, Packer's work urges viewers to understand and appreciate the unique dimensions of Black lives beyond just the physical. Richly illustrated, this volume includes texts by fellow painters Dona Nelson and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, professors Rizvana Bradley and Christina Sharpe, and an interview between the artist and Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist. Quarto: 172 p. Original pictorial boards; issued without a dust jacket. Minor bump to the bottom corner; otherwise very good. (Inventory #: 77620)