This season, Garrison Art Center in New York presents INSCAPE / OUTSCAPE, an exhibition featuring works from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, alongside smallWORKS | Looking Out from Within, a juried biennial exhibition. The Opening Reception is Saturday, October 17, and is free and open to the public.
From the organizers:
Both exhibitions explore how we see and experience the world around us. The ideas behind INSCAPE / OUTSCAPE helped shape the theme for smallWORKS, inviting artists to think about the artwork as a window between what is inside and what is outside. Together, the exhibitions offer different ways of looking at the world from the inside out. Learn more about both exhibitions below.
INSCAPE/OUTSCAPE: Works on Paper
Selections from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation
October 17 – November 22, 2026
Grounded in verticality, contrast, and structural detail, this nearly monochromatic collection explores architectural forms and the interplay of shadow and light. By examining the boundaries between interior and exterior, presence and absence, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on how both literal and metaphorical environments shape our perception and way of seeing the world.
Catherine V. Graham, Executive Director of Garrison Art Center, said, “The Foundation holds a collection of unusual depth and feeling. William Louis-Dreyfus collected outside the direction of the market, guided by relationships with artists, studio visits, and his own eye, rather than prevailing taste. That sensibility is evident throughout: the work carries an intimacy and conviction not always found in collections built through dealers and advisors. The holdings also include a notable concentration of figurative and representational work from a period when such work had fallen out of favor with mainstream collectors. Considered together, these qualities make it an exceptional collection of humanitarian nature.”
“William Louis-Dreyfus would have been thrilled with this exhibition,” shared Foundation Curator Christina Kee. “In both life and in art, he was always looking; he loved the sense of poetry in a subject barely glimpsed and the surprise of an unexpected view from a door or window frame, looking either in or out.”
Artworks were selected from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation by Charles Burleigh (Board Member and Gallery Committee Member), Melissa Small Cooper (Board Secretary and Gallery Committee Member), Monica Church (Gallery Committee Member), Catherine V. Graham (Executive Director), and Stanford Kay (Gallery Committee Member). The committee built the exhibition around works on paper as a unifying medium. With two exceptions — one piece on panel and one on cardboard, a paper-based material consistent with that focus — every work on view is on paper.
Artists included in INSCAPE / OUTSCAPE:
James Castle, Tara Geer, David Klamen, Stanley Lewis, Luis Marsans, Raymond Mason, John Moore, Catherine Murphy, Graham Nickson, Eleanor Ray, Karlis Rekevics, Charles Ritchie, Stuart Shils, Renie Spoelstra, Leopold Strobl
smallWORKS, A Juried Biennial Exhibition
Looking Out from Within
October 17 – November 22, 2026
smallWORKS is a juried biennial exhibition featuring a diverse collection of 2D and 3D artwork by artists from across the United States. Artists were invited to explore artwork as a kind of window, open to both representational and abstract interpretations. Whether peering inward or outward, intimate or expansive, works may consider how the plane of an artwork can become a threshold between one experience and another.
“Because this year’s smallWORKS coincides with INSCAPE / OUTSCAPE,” said Graham, “we were delighted to have Christina Kee jury the show. Her deep familiarity with the collection, paired with her own sensibility as an artist and writer, made her the ideal choice.”
Kee is an artist and writer who has served as co-curator at The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation since 2011. “I looked for works that I felt communicated a kind of vitality – that ‘spark’ of truly engaged art making,” Kee said. “I was also mindful of the connection to the broader theme of ‘Looking Out from Within,’ and wanted to represent different approaches, from realistic to abstract, and a range of mediums. When appropriate, I paid close attention to technique and the handling of materials. I like to think the resulting selections will make an exciting and thought-provoking show!”
smallWORKS showcases a diverse collection of 2D and 3D artwork, including photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, stoneware, and mixed media, with 44 works by 43 artists selected from several hundred submissions.
Artists included in smallWORKS:
Jim Allen, Carla Aurich, Tom Bell-Games, Brandon Bravo, Jesse Brink, Jennifer Clapp, Freddie Jen Cohen, Mark Crawford, Margaret Day, Darlys Ewoldt, Luis Fonseca, Nancy Goldenberg, Bill Graziano, Mary Johnson, Yasemin Kackar-Demirel, Rachel Kangas, Carole P. Kunstadt, Eleanor Kwei, Karen Lacey, Holli Levy, Aileen Lian, Nancy Manter, Maria Pia Marrella, Dale McCarthy, Terry Murray, Kate Nelson, Laini Nemett, Chantelle Norton, Karen Parashkevov, Polly Perkins, Erin Perrazzelli, Geraldine Popko, Lisa Pressman, John Allen Ray, Jody Servon, Lisa Steffens, Susan Stillman, Janet Tholen, Kara Wilson, Amanda Wolf, Kathy Yacoe Skura, Amy Yoshitsu, Robert Zurer
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Story prepared for the web by Cherie Dawn Haas, Editor of Fine Art Today
