Louise Sartor, Fragile (2025). Exhibited at Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles.
The Glickfield-Gardner Collection · A Private Foundation in Formation
We collect contemporary art one work at a time — through galleries we keep walking back into and artists whose work we can't stop thinking about.
A private foundation. Hudson Valley, New York · Paris.
Louise Sartor, Fragile (2025). Exhibited at Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles.
About the Foundation
New to the Wall Foundation grows out of the Glickfield-Gardner Collection — a private contemporary art collection built across New York and Paris since 2024. What began at home has grown into something larger: a desire to share the work we love, support the artists who make it, and create space for art to live in community.
We are collectors who believe relationships with artists matter as much as relationships with their work. We are drawn to artists at pivotal moments in their careers — voices that deserve wider audiences and deeper institutional support. The foundation is how we turn that belief into sustained action.
Founded by Jimmy Gardner and Shana Glickfield, the foundation is rooted in the Hudson Valley and connected to the galleries, studios, and institutions of New York and Paris.
Works from the collection have been exhibited at Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles (2025).
More on how the collection comes together in How We Collect →
Our Vision
We build a living collection of contemporary art — painting, sculpture, installation — and share it publicly. Art should not stay in storage. It should be encountered, questioned, and experienced in person.
We acquire work from artists at meaningful inflection points in their careers, and we look for ways to support them beyond the transaction — through residencies, studio visits, and long-term dialogue.
Our vision includes a dedicated artist residence in the Hudson Valley — offering artists time, space, and proximity to a collection that values their work, creating room for new ideas to take shape far from the pressures of the market.
We commission new work, produce cross-disciplinary projects, and organize exhibitions that bring art beyond gallery walls. Supporting artists through exhibition support, project realizations, and catalog and monograph production strengthens the roster of collected and wider supported artists — partnering directly with them to realize ambitious ideas that might not otherwise find support.
Coming Soon
The Foundation is planning a purpose-built exhibition space — the Art Barn — on donated land in our Hudson Valley neighborhood. It will serve as a home for the collection: a place where works can be shown, rotated, and experienced by visitors in an intimate, unhurried setting.
A dedicated artist residence is part of our longer-term vision — a place where artists can spend extended time with studio-quality space and the quiet the Hudson Valley affords. Our hope is to build a place where the collection, its artists, and the local community can meet on shared ground.
Design and planning are underway. More details to come.
Commissions & Projects
Beyond collecting, the foundation commissions new work and produces cross-disciplinary projects — partnering directly with artists to realize ideas that deserve support.
Commission
We commissioned a work by Houston Maludi through MAGNIN-A in Paris, a gallery built around contemporary African artists. Maludi's practice — Monochromatic Symbiotic Quantum Cubism — transforms a single continuous line into densely layered urban landscapes drawn from Kinshasa, where he lives and works. The commission supports his ongoing practice and brings his work into transatlantic dialogue with the collection.
Project & Exhibition
Chaises is a multidisciplinary installation translating the daily choreography of Luxembourg Gardens' iconic green metal chairs into five simultaneous art forms — dance, sculpture, sound, painting, and scenography. Conceived by Jimmy Gardner with creative direction, sound, and scenography by Allard van Hoorn (Urban Songlines), and contributions from Ophelia Jacarini (AI and sculpture) and Charlotte Tampol (painting and print). We are currently planning a Paris presentation and applying to exhibit at TERRA 2026 in Burgundy.
The Collection
We didn't build this collection to a thesis. We built it one painting at a time, through galleries we kept walking back into and artists whose work we couldn't stop thinking about. What you'll find below is organized by the people and rooms who shaped it — Adele at Ceysson-Bénétière, Anastasia at Crèvecoeur, Pauli and Natalie at Ochi, Ben at Perrotin, Marie-Charlotte at MAGNIN-A, and the others — because the relationships are part of the collection.
More on the practice behind the collection in How We Collect →
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