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Aileen Bassis

Artist and Poet



Themes of social and racial justice have been a persistent presence in my work, from a series about anti-semitism in 1998 to artists books about Muslim identity to prints and drawings about the Black lives matter movement and police violence.



The Brown/Black Body: Lungs
Transfer Print & Pencil, 2020, 15 x 22"



Carotid Restraint
Pencil on black paper, 30 x 22", 2020



Breath, Pencil on black paper & thread, 15 x 22.5" 2020



My Sister, photopolymer etching, 8.25 x 11.5" from a series that combines historical text about enslaved people with contemporary street images.



Prisoners, photopolymer etching, 8.25 x 11.5" 2009



Owner of Any, photopolymer etching, 11.5 x 8.25" 2009



Free Women, unique artists book, 7 pages, each page 15 x 11.2, lithographs, transfer prints, thread, acrylic, includes historic text sourced from Library of Congress, 2008



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