Memory Maps
Memory Mapsby Aileen Bassis
October 7 - 12, 2010
chashama 266
266 West 37th Street
(between 7th and 8th Avenues)
New York, NY
Aileen Bassis' work is concerned with social and political issues and photo based. She has created work about immigration, the Holocaust, racism, children and psychiatric drugs, child abuse, aging and dementia. She creates work in book arts, installation, printmaking and digital photography. She received a fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts, a grant from the Puffin Foundation and numerous artist residencies in the US and Europe including the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium, the Vermont Studio Center in the United States, Nelimakka Museum in Finland and Atelier BaZtille in the Netherlands.
Aileen has had solo exhibitions at Ohio University in Athens, University of Pennsylvania, College of St. Elizabeth in Morristown and galleries. She has exhibited in many group shows including the Jersey City Museum, City Without Walls Gallery, NurtureArt Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and in many universities including Rutgers University, New York University, Central Wyoming College, Boston University and the University of the South to name just a few. Her work is in the collections of Wellesley College, the Newark Library Special Collections, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp and the Nelimarkka Museum in Finland.
She has a Masters of Arts degree from Hunter College, New York City and a Bachelors degree in Studio Art from State University of New York in Binghamton. Aileen also teaches art to children in an urban school district in New Jersey. Her life experiences inform and shape her art into a dialogue that connects the personal with the universal.
