Aileen Bassis

Artist and Poet




Long Island City Artists has an online exhibition:

"Artists Navigating 2020" that includes a slideshow of my artist book, "Do You Stay."


Alterwork Studios, Astoria NY, online exhibit, "Virus of Dehumanization: Part 2: Capitalism and its Need for the Underclass" includes three of my print collages from my series, "Homilies for the 99%" on the theme of income inequality.


Ethan Cohen Gallery KuBe in Beacon, New York will have etchings from my series, "Time to Leave" and a group of lithographs with pencil from my 2015 series, "Missing in America" in the exhibit, "Darkest Before Dawn, Art in a Time of Uncertainty," November 1 - January 30.

The exhibition can be viewed by appointment.


My work has been selected for inclusion in White Columns' fourteenth online Curated Artist Registry exhibition, guest curated by Danny Baez, Co-Founder and Director of MECA Art Fair.






Work on Exhibit



Missing in America
#2



on exhibition at Ethan

Cohen Gallery KuBe, from a series created in 2015 about the great number of Black men missing from our society.



Do You Want/Do You Need (detail)



Triptych of sewn risograph prints was selected for White Columns online exhibit.



"Breath" 2020, 15 x 22.5" Pencil, Thread on Paper



"Breathing While Black," an online exhibition by the Augusta Savage Gallery at U. of Massachusetts, Amherst includes two of my recent drawings inspired by the death of George Floyd

September 1 - November 30.


Alfa Gallery in New Brunswick, NJ has one of my etchings in the exhibition, "The Space Between" sponsored by the Women's Caucus for Art NYC branch, curated by Jeanne Brasile. The Space Between is physically on view Sept 5 - Sep 26. Gallery hours: 11 AM - 6pm and an online exhibition begins August 11.


“Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election” is an online exhibition curated by artist/activist Patricia Dahlman with work by: Kathy Aoki, Aileen Bassis, Sue Coe, Donna Coleman, Patricia Dahlman, Michael Dal Cerro, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Robyn Ellenbogen, Tim Fite, Robert Geshlider, Todd Hanson and Annakai Hayakawa Geshlider, Cheryl Harper, Carla Rae Johnson, Jackie Lima, Anne Q McKeown, Doug Minkler, Frank Lopez-Motnyk, Ray Must, Hubert Neal Jr, Joseph O’Neal, Chris Pelletiere, Carol Radsprecher, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Rita Valley, and Lisa G Westheimer.



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