The impact is potent enough that when two curators from the Museum of Modern Art paid
separate studio visits last summer, they both proposed putting it directly into a solo exhibition at the museum, bypassing the typical introductory show at Matthew Marks Gallery.
Later, over email, Wagner reflected almost wistfully, «While [Founder] Austin Thomas wasn't the first Bushwick art presence (we were doing artist
studio visits in the area before Pocket Utopia)... I can't think of the building — or of the larger Bushwick art scene —
separate from her magical space and its mission».