Artist
Judith Peck
(American, b. 1957)
Title
Pulled Over
Date2016
MediumOil and plaster on board
Dimensions40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2019.044.1
ClassificationsPaintings
Locations
OCTFME (1899 9th Street NE)
DescriptionIn 1987, Judith Peck began embedding plaster shards into her oil paintings to reference her grandparents’ immigration to America; the shards represent the broken world they left behind but always carried with them. As her work developed, she took a more universal view of human history. She aims to express that all people, in all times and places, have the same hopes and dreams, and also to convey how, despite our rifts, we might experience healing in a broken world. Peck depicts individuals with rich inner lives and compassionate personae that will activate viewers’ empathy. This relates to her belief that the human spirit always possesses hope, even in the most desperate of circumstances.
