Part of the reason I was so excited about Bushwick Open Studios was the opportunity to see people’s homes and living arrangements — I’m the weirdo you see walking around at night hoping to catch a glimpse of someone’s living room through a window. I felt I had hit the jackpot when we got to Magda Rachwal’s apartment above the Mexican panadería on Knickerbocker — we saw plenty of cute old details and enjoyed the view off her ornate wrought iron fire scape toward the park.

What we saw: Pen and pencil drawings, paintings, photography. Magda had large paintings on the wall, but what I found most interesting were what she described as “angry pen drawings” — scraps of paper with furious scribbles that somehow turn into cars, objects, scenery, and people.

Magda Rachwal (BOS listing)
238 Knickerbocker