INSCAPE/ OUTSCAPE

THE ARTISTS

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James Castle  (1899–1977, American)  —  A self-taught artist from rural Idaho who was profoundly deaf and worked with no formal training, Castle made his drawings almost entirely from found materials, mixing soot from the woodstove with saliva and applying it with sharpened sticks to depict the interiors, buildings, and landscapes of his world.

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Tara Geer  (b. 1970, American)  —  Working exclusively on paper, Geer creates abstract drawings rooted in the close observation of overlooked details from her surroundings—a fold in a bag, a stain on a roof—layering charcoal, chalk, and pastel into richly textured fields.

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David Klamen  (b. 1961, American)  —  Klamen is known for visually diverse paintings that pair technical mastery with questions about how we understand and interpret experience; his meditative, quietly enigmatic work often lays geometric structure over closely observed landscapes and interiors.

Stanley Lewis  (b. 1941, American)  —  A revered painter and teacher, Lewis makes intensely reworked, perceptual pictures of landscapes, interiors, and everyday places, built up through relentless observation and revision. His work is held in the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation collection.

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Luis Marsans  (1930–2015, Catalan/Spanish)  —  Born in Barcelona and raised partly in Paris, Marsans turned from abstraction to figurative work in the mid-1960s, becoming known for intimate, small-format still lifes and landscapes, often of books and quiet interiors.

 

Raymond Mason  (1922–2010, British)  —  Born in Birmingham and based in Paris from 1946, Mason was a sculptor whose teeming street scenes evoked ordinary people caught up in the drama of daily life; his works on paper share that same attention to the life of the city outside his window.

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John Moore  (b. 1941, American)  —  An American realist known for studio interiors, still lifes, and above all cityscapes and the post-industrial landscape of mill towns and factories, Moore builds luminous, contemplative images that hold the observed present alongside memory.

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Catherine Murphy  (b. 1946, American)  —  An American realist painter whose career began with the 1971 Whitney Annual, Murphy works entirely from direct observation rather than photographs, elevating carefully chosen everyday subjects. She lives and works in nearby Poughkeepsie.

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Graham Nickson  (1946–2025, British-born)  —  Long-serving Dean of the New York Studio School and founder of its Drawing Marathon, Nickson worked from perception in oils, charcoal, and watercolor, celebrated for luminous, saturated landscapes, skies, and bathers.

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Eleanor Ray  (b. 1987, American)  —  Ray distills light, atmosphere, and the mystery of actual places into small-scale oil paintings of landscapes and interiors, each panel rebuilding a remembered moment—often a doorway or window—at intimate scale.

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Karlis Rekevics  (American, of Latvian heritage)  —  Based in Brooklyn, Rekevics is a sculptor and draftsman drawn to the overlooked parts of the urban landscape we see constantly but rarely register—bridge supports, facades, guardrails, and scaffolding, which he reconstructs and subtly reimagines.

 

Charles Ritchie  (b. 1954, American)  —  Ritchie is known for intimate small-scale works in watercolor, graphite, and ink, and for the journals behind them—postcard-size books recording nocturnal views, reflections, and studies of the world seen from his suburban home. He worked for decades as a curator at the National Gallery of Art.

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Stuart Shils  (b. 1954, American)  —  A Philadelphia-based landscape painter whose work moves between formal abstraction and fidelity to the observed scene, Shils is a longtime plein-air painter who cites Piero della Francesca and Morandi among his touchstones.

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Renie Spoelstra  (b. 1974, Dutch)  —  Working exclusively in charcoal on large formats, Spoelstra immerses the viewer in landscapes of dense blacks and gradations of grey—mountains, forests, clouds, and lakes that suspend time in a charged stillness. She won the 2026 Guerlain Drawing Prize.

 

Leopold Strobl  (b. 1960, Austrian)  —  A self-taught artist associated with the Gugging House of Artists near Vienna, Strobl makes tiny, enigmatic drawings by overdrawing newspaper clippings in black, green, and yellow colored pencil, transforming them into human-less landscapes with his signature green sky.