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AILEEN BASSIS


Artist and Poet



Links: Projects and More Information



My Poetry Page has links to poems and info about my writing.


Here's a Youtube video of my reading at the New Orleans Poetry Festival.


YouTube Interview from September 2020 by Alfa Art Gallery in conjunction with the exhibit, "The Space Between" and more info about that show is here.


Art can be viewed on the Long Island City Artists website.


York College posted images of my solo exhibition in 2019, "Art for the Body Politic."


A talk about my work at the NJ Book Arts Symposium -- I'm about 15 minutes into the video.



The 365 Days Artists Project posted about my work in 2015.


"Silent Witnesses" was an exhibit in 2012, curated by Cynthia Beth Rubin at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Michigan. The theme was synagogues and I combined photos of former synagogues in the South Bronx (where I grew up) with images and text from "Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends," a childhood favorite.


Library as Incubator interviewed me about my work in artist books.


Jamaica Flux: Workspace and Windows, curated by Heng-Gil Han, invited me to create altered books about older community residents in 2007.








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