BRIC is pleased to announce the eight recipients of our BRICworkspace visual artist residency program for the summer of 2017. BRICworkspace provides professional, practicing artists with free studio space, a stipend for materials, and visits with curatorial staff from BRIC and other local institutions, and an open studio event. The residency program is now in its fourth year and is open to artists who live, work, or were born in Brooklyn. This summer, thanks to a generous new donation of space by Alloy Development, we were able to double the number of artists in residence, from four to eight. Awardees include an all-female roster of artists Nicole Awai, Esperanza Cortés, Lucia Cuba, Phoebe Grip, Katya Grokhovsky, Katherine Toukhy, Jamie Warren, and Monika Weiss.

Brooklyn-based artist Luke Alexander Atkinson uses painting to capture what he finds beautiful and interesting in the world. Through his travels and studies in places as far away as St. Petersburg, Russia, and as close by as Long Island City, Atkinson has been able to explore his technique, create paintings on a large and small-scale that capture the scenes and the people around him. We sat down with Atkinson to talk about his practice and  life in Brooklyn.