Issue 07 Preview: Jennifer Packer

  JENNIFER PACKER In the weeks leading up to the Apogee Journal Issue 07 release, we’d like to treat you to a sneak preview of the visual art in the new issue.   Eric Oil on canvas 17 x 19 inches 2013 Courtesy of the artist   JENNIFER PACKER (born Philadelphia, 1984) received her BFA from the Tyler University School of Art at Temple University in 2007, and her MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2012. In 2012-2013 she was Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and from 2014 to 2016 was a Visual Arts Fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Packer lives and works in New York.

Queer History, Queer Now

And we know, we have always known, that no place is safe—we are queer people of color, no place is ever safe for us, not even the gay club—but it’s one of the few spaces where, at least for the duration of a song, we can imagine a complete surrender to the music that transports us into the sheer enjoyment of a moment. Rigoberto González