Aglaé Bassens
Biography
The Numbers Can Only Go Up, 2022
Aglaé Bassens (b. 1986, Belgium) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Bassens has a BA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University (2007) and an MFA in Fine Art Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2011). Her work has been exhibited internationally, with solo presentations at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY; 12.26, Dallas, TX; Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; CRUSH Curatorial, New York, NY; and Cabin Gallery, London; as well as group exhibitions at Gowen Contemporary, Geneva; STEMS Gallery, Paris; The Valley, Taos, NM; and Workplace Gallery, London. Her work is featured in New American Paintings No. 134 Northeast Issue and in 100 Painters of Tomorrow published by Thames and Hudson. Bassens’s works can be found in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and Colección SOLO, Madrid, Spain.
Works
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Aglaé BassensCandlesticks, 2024Oil paint on canvas39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in
100 x 130 cm -
Aglaé BassensNight Clock, 2024Oil paint on canvas14 x 18 in
35.6 x 45.7 cm -
Aglaé BassensPink Telephone, 2024Oil paint on canvas30 x 24 in
76.2 x 61 cm -
Aglaé BassensCatty catty, 2023Oil paint on canvas27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in
70 x 100 cm -
Aglaé BassensIvory Lampshades, 2023Oil paint on canvas39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in
100 x 130 cm -
Aglaé BassensStay Over, 2023Oil paint on canvas39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in
100 x 130 cm -
Aglaé BassensLED Swan, 2022Oil paint on canvas39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in
100 x 130 cm -
Aglaé BassensThe Numbers Can Only Go Up, 2022Oil paint on canvas47 1/4 x 71 1/4 in
120 x 181 cm -
Aglaé BassensRemote, 2021Oil paint on canvas32 x 48 in
81.3 x 121.9 cm
Exhibitions
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Aglaé Bassens
DOWNTIME May 25 - July 7, 2023HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of DOWNTIME, an exhibition of paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist Aglaé Bassens, marking her third solo presentation with the gallery. Aglaé Bassens is interested in the overlap of the private experience with the communal one. While her paintings stem from her own...Read more -
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The Feeling is Mutual January 13 - February 12, 2022For her third solo show with the gallery, Aglaé Bassens brings together figures, landscapes and interiors. In The Feeling is Mutual, Bassens reflects upon her use of subjective imagery as a vehicle for collective emotion. Sonder: n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and...Read more -
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Sincerely, October 22 - November 21, 2020'Soon, objects take form and fall into place; in a little while, the vigorous, firm totality appears, and one tastes real pleasure in contemplating this bright, serious painting, which yields up nature with a sweet brutality.' - Emile Zola, writing on Edouard Manet, 1867 Hesse Flatow is pleased to present...Read more -
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You Can See Better From Here @CRUSH CURATORIAL March 16 - April 14, 2018In England, the windows open outward. In France, they open inward. In Brooklyn, windows materialize on cladded walls, adorned with awnings and AC units. We peer into lit windows on dark evenings. At home, we look beyond the glass pane at night, only to be greeted by our own reflection....Read more
