Wesleyan's Davison Art Collection is focused primarily on graphic art and photography. The breadth of the collection is equaled by its outstanding quality; exceptionally fine impressions by Rembrandt van Rijn and Francisco de Goya, rare early engravings, and important contemporary artwork by artists including Kara Walker and Jasper Johns are only a few highlights. The Davison Art Collection supports teaching, learning, and research in its study room, and presents public exhibitions in its gallery.
Looking Inward: The Interior as Subject
Pruzan Art Center, Goldrach Gallery
238 Church Street, Middletown, Connecticut
FREE!
Wednesday, February 11 through Saturday, May 23, 2026
Visualizing the interior, both material and subjective, has long been a source of fascination for artists. The desire to see, and especially to show, what is typically unseen and private aligns with the aims of visual communication to display and to reveal. Viewing interiors also satisfies the spectator’s desire to look beyond, or beneath, the surface. Both actual interiors and depictions of them are frequently taken as externalizations of a person’s psychic state, or at least their personal taste. These themes and potentialities of interiors emerge in the works in the exhibition Looking Inward: The Interior as Subject, all of which are invitations to look inside and within. This exhibition of prints and photographs features artwork by Édouard Manet, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Carrie Mae Weems, Joel Meyerowitz, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and many others.
