Studio Summer

Studio Summer: A Residency with Showcase at Bushwick Gallery

Brooklyn, NY | July 1 – July 31, 2025
Final Showcase: June 26, 2025
Application Deadline: June 1 | Notification by June 11
Application Fee: $25 | No additional participation fees if accepted

In the heat of Brooklyn’s creative season, Bushwick Gallery opens its doors to three visual artists for a month-long summer residency designed not just for making—but for meaning. Studio Summer offers time, space, and visibility to artists committed to experimentation, process, and presence. The residency culminates in a one-night, non-commercial public showcase, offering a rare glimpse into the raw edge of creation—works in motion, ideas mid-flight.

Artists are provided access to a shared, open-plan studio space within the gallery, available daily from 8 AM to 8 PM. While the program does not include housing or a financial award, it offers something increasingly rare in New York’s art landscape: uninterrupted time in a professional gallery setting, supported by curatorial mentorship and institutional promotion.

The residency will be directed by Maëlis Tomassone, a France-born, New York-based artist whose work channels the spirit of the streets through layered paper, charcoal, and oil pastel. Known for her spontaneous yet deeply intuitive practice, Tomassone brings both critical rigor and expressive freedom to her role as curator and mentor.

Joining her on the selection panel are:
– Roman Cochet, painter and sculptor exploring post-human stillness and fragmented memory
– Gina Keatley, abstract artist and founder of Bushwick Gallery, whose work investigates erosion, endurance, and quiet resistance

Bushwick Gallery invites applications from painters, mixed-media artists, and those working across visual disciplines with a distinctive point of view. This is a residency for artists who are ready to go deep, challenge form, and create in community—without distraction, but with dialogue.

Two positions remain.
Submit no later than June 1, 2025. Artists will be notified by June 11.

In the spirit of summer—this is your time to work. Let the city move around you. Let the work take root.

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