Bushwick Gallery | July 2025
Open Studio Showcase: July 26, 2025
Throughout July, Bushwick Gallery becomes a shared creative laboratory for a select cohort of international and emerging artists. Our Studio Summer Residency emphasizes experimentation, material inquiry, and interdisciplinary dialogue—centering process over product and cultivating space for risk-taking and reinvention.
Rather than prescribing outcomes, the residency offers time and support for artists to explore ideas in flux, test the limits of their medium, and connect with peers in a dynamic studio environment. The culmination of this month-long exploration will be presented at a public Open Studio Showcase on July 26, inviting audiences into the evolving worlds of each resident artist.
2025 Studio Artists
Maëlis Tomassone
France – New York City
@maelis.tomassone
Portfolio
A visual artist working primarily on paper, Maëlis Tomassone (b. 2003, France) creates raw, textural works that channel the immediacy and layered storytelling of urban walls. Her process is rooted in spontaneity—sketches, spray paint, charcoal, and oil pastels collide in dynamic compositions that evoke personal and collective transformation.
Influenced by the street art of Valencia’s El Carmen neighborhood, Tomassone’s pieces echo the voices of cities: fragmented, expressive, and in constant flux. At Bushwick Gallery, she continues this lineage with work that speaks to struggle, reinvention, and the intimacy of becoming.
Khoi Le
Vienna, VA – Brooklyn, NY
@khoitle
khoi-le.com
Khoi Le’s practice navigates memory, grief, and contemporary myth-making through the lens of digital culture. Using language, found imagery, and religious/pop cultural iconography, Le challenges dominant narratives and invites reflection on how we assign—and resist—meaning. His use of meme aesthetics and symbolic layering blends humor with vulnerability, forming a body of work that is at once critical and deeply human.
During the residency, Le is developing hybrid assemblages that merge digital motifs with tactile materials, exploring how physical and virtual identities can coexist and clash.
Taylor Epps
Brooklyn, NY
@tayloreppsart
tayloreppsart.com
Taylor Epps creates intimate representational paintings drawn from family photo archives and found snapshots. Her work honors overlooked moments—gesture, texture, time—offering a quiet meditation on memory, lineage, and love. Epps brings care and intentionality to each canvas, balancing nostalgia with contemporary perspective.
At Bushwick Gallery, Epps is expanding the scale and freedom of her practice, embracing looseness and gesture while retaining the emotional resonance of the personal image.
Join the Next Studio Residency
Artists interested in engaging with Bushwick Gallery’s process-driven model are encouraged to apply for our Winter Studio Residency, taking place in February 2026. The program offers studio access, community, and creative freedom within a supportive gallery context.
Apply now: https://bushwickgallery.com/studio/
