Karma’s The View From Inside brings together seven painters—Henni Alftan, Lois Dodd, Jane Freilicher, Josephine Halvorson, Yvonne Jacquette, Catherine Murphy, and Sylvia Plimack Mangold—who use domestic space as a site of perception and formal discovery. Guided by Linda Nochlin’s question, “Are we looking through or at the picture plane?”, the exhibition traces how each artist approaches realism, framing, and the boundaries between inside and outside.
Jacquette and Plimack Mangold push the interior toward minimal, analytical observation, distilling rooms into geometry and surface. Dodd and Freilicher take a more gestural route, using windows, reflections, and tight cropping to merge interior and exterior worlds. Halvorson and Murphy heighten realism to the point where it borders on abstraction, exposing seams and structures usually overlooked.
Alftan’s stylized paintings bring the lineage into the present. Her Neighbours (2025) sharpens the show’s central theme—a view from one home into another—capturing the uncanny symmetry of private spaces and the thresholds that separate them.
Exhibition Information
The View From Inside
Karma
188 East 2nd Street, New York
Dates: November 7–December 20, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, November 7, 6–8 pm
Website: karmakarma.org/exhibitions/the-view-from-inside-2025_ny-188/
Featured Work
Henni Alftan
Neighbours, 2025
Oil on linen
51⅛ × 63¾ in. (130 × 162 cm)
