10/16/2026
Apartment galleries are back! The New York Times
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Jason Andrew, who co-founded the Brooklyn-based nonprofit Norte Maar in 2004, managed a gallery from his ground-floor Wyckoff Avenue apartment and organized art crawls to nearby spaces. “We were driven to create a community and a conversation about art around our neighborhood,” Mr. Andrew said.
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Thank you Aaron Short for included our ancient history in your recent article.
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Norte Maar began as an apartment gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, before the neighborhood had a name in the art world. Out of an apartment that doubled as an exhibition space, it championed artists working outside the commercial system and helped spark the DIY scene that made Bushwick one of New York’s most vital creative communities. Jerry Saltz called it “the closest thing to the eighties East Village.” Two decades on, Norte Maar remains devoted to collaboration across painting, sculpture, dance, music, and poetry, and to the artists who build community as much as they build careers.
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Throw back:
Rico Gatson in HECHO EN BUSHWICK, July 2008
Phong Bui in MERZBUSH, July 2010
Richard Haines in BOYS OF BUSHWICK, April 2011
audra wolowiec November 2011
Paul D'Agostino February 2012
Tamara Gonzales March 2012
OLIVER RALLI SOUND WAVES / PASS KONTROL June 2012
Beyond the Bedroom July 2012
Ben Godward March 2013
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