Focus on the Peck Collection

Inspired by the bareness of Thomas Wyck’s Bedroom Interior from the Peck Collection, this installation explores three different approaches to the “empty room.” Though far apart in history and diverse in medium and technique, these images resonate visually with each other. Not only do they lack figures and other iconographic clutter, they each explore similar themes: the tension between light and shadow, the juxtaposition of odd angles and soft curves, and the suggestion of human presence combined with the absence of identity.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website