Origin: New York, NY, USA
Currently Exhibiting in: Brooklyn, NY
Website: untamedmoderns.com
Instagram: @untamedmoderns
Artist Profile
Gina Keatley is a contemporary artist and founder of Bushwick Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice explores transformation, repetition, and endurance through tactile abstract compositions that balance control with surrender. Known for her distinctive technique of applying circular stabbing gestures with unconventional tools, Keatley turns motion into meditation and tension into structure. Each work becomes a record of energy spent, recovered, and reimagined.
Beyond her studio, Keatley embodies the modern entropeneurial spirit. As a woman business owner, she approaches risk as a form of invention. Her ventures, including Bushwick Gallery and the forthcoming international art magazine SABI, expand the conversation between creativity and commerce. Each project functions as a living experiment in evolution, guided by her belief that beauty often emerges from disorder and that progress demands courage.
Featured Artwork: Spiral Surge
Series: Sow Series: A Bold Reflection on Persistence and Force
Year: 2024
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 48 × 48 inches
Edition: Unique, 1 of 1
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Price: $4,600
Description
Spiral Surge is a commanding work within Keatley’s Sow Series, which examines the physical and emotional labor of persistence. In contrast to her more chromatic works, this piece is rendered in deep blacks and muted earthen tones that absorb light rather than reflect it. The surface bears evidence of relentless repetition, layers of circular motion that expand and contract in rhythm with the artist’s own breath and resolve.
The painting embodies energy at rest, a moment where motion condenses into equilibrium. Through texture and restraint, Keatley investigates entropy as both a creative and philosophical condition. Spiral Surge captures the delicate balance between endurance and transformation, revealing the beauty that arises when structure meets surrender.
Through her Sow Series and particularly in Spiral Surge, Gina Keatley redefines the language of contemporary abstraction. Her work reflects both the intuition of an artist and the strategy of a creative visionary. As a New York artist and the founder of Bushwick Gallery, she merges innovation with intention, creating spaces and artworks that question permanence while celebrating evolution. Her commitment to risk, experimentation, and reinvention marks her as one of the defining figures in modern art today, bridging the worlds of creation and enterprise with exceptional clarity and purpose.
Exhibition Information
Exhibition Title: Vivid Force: The Power of Bold Color
Curated by: Michael O’Malley
Theme: Vivid Force explores the raw energy of bold color and emotional intensity, highlighting how artists translate inner turbulence into visual rhythm. Though Keatley’s Spiral Surge diverges chromatically, its commanding presence and physical gravity echo the exhibition’s exploration of strength and momentum.
Exhibition Dates: November 13 – November 20, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 13, 6 PM – 8 PM
Private Showings: By appointment throughout the week