Aglaé Bassens:
Vanishing Point
Opening Friday, November 22, 6 - 8pm
12.26 presents Vanishing Point, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by artist Aglaé Bassens at the gallery’s Los Angeles location.
Vanishing Point continues Bassens’ visual investigations of everyday imagery in her characteristically distinctive painting style. Expanding upon the formal and psychological sense of a vanishing point this body of work plays with perspective and toys with the emotions of loss, memory, and longing.
A doorway leading to a room with which the viewer cannot see or enter features an alluring blue and white lacquered linoleum floor. An oblong clock with an unclear time reading perches itself atop a glossy end table. A vivid yellow landline sits idle, unplugged, and disconnected. Cigarette butts litter an ashtray flagrantly stooped atop a mint green ruched comforter. Transparent glasses with thin shadows foreground green backdrops. A drain gulps up waves of swirling water.
While Bassens’ loose brushstrokes flirt with presence and absence, none of the images vanish entirely. Sure, time ticks away, the glass is empty, and that connection is lost, but it’s not all down the drain because the door that closed left another door open, and there is hope in that.
In conjunction with Vanishing Point, 12.26 is pleased to announce the launch of Cabinet, an online platform of rotating exhibitions. Cabinet is currently selling ten limited edition hand-painted t-shirts by Aglaé Bassens.
Aglaé Bassens (b. 1986, Belgium) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, NY. Bassens received her MFA in Fine Art Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2011) and a BA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University (2007). Recent solo exhibitions include;12.26, Dallas, TX (2024); Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida (2023); Hesse Flatow, New York, NY (2023 and 2022); Recent group shows include F2T, Milano, Italy (2024); Turn, New York, NY (2024); 12.26, Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Park Hyatt, New York, NY (2024); Shrine, New York, NY (2023); Workplace, London (2023 and 2021); Gowen Contemporary, Switzerland (2023); The Valley, Taos (2022); Stems Gallery, Paris (2022); Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL (2020); Newington Gallery, London (2019) and Central Park Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2019), among others. Bassens work resides in the permanent collections of the ICA Miami and Colección SOLO, Madrid, Spain.
Vanishing Point continues Bassens’ visual investigations of everyday imagery in her characteristically distinctive painting style. Expanding upon the formal and psychological sense of a vanishing point this body of work plays with perspective and toys with the emotions of loss, memory, and longing.
A doorway leading to a room with which the viewer cannot see or enter features an alluring blue and white lacquered linoleum floor. An oblong clock with an unclear time reading perches itself atop a glossy end table. A vivid yellow landline sits idle, unplugged, and disconnected. Cigarette butts litter an ashtray flagrantly stooped atop a mint green ruched comforter. Transparent glasses with thin shadows foreground green backdrops. A drain gulps up waves of swirling water.
While Bassens’ loose brushstrokes flirt with presence and absence, none of the images vanish entirely. Sure, time ticks away, the glass is empty, and that connection is lost, but it’s not all down the drain because the door that closed left another door open, and there is hope in that.
In conjunction with Vanishing Point, 12.26 is pleased to announce the launch of Cabinet, an online platform of rotating exhibitions. Cabinet is currently selling ten limited edition hand-painted t-shirts by Aglaé Bassens.
Aglaé Bassens (b. 1986, Belgium) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, NY. Bassens received her MFA in Fine Art Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2011) and a BA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University (2007). Recent solo exhibitions include;12.26, Dallas, TX (2024); Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida (2023); Hesse Flatow, New York, NY (2023 and 2022); Recent group shows include F2T, Milano, Italy (2024); Turn, New York, NY (2024); 12.26, Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Park Hyatt, New York, NY (2024); Shrine, New York, NY (2023); Workplace, London (2023 and 2021); Gowen Contemporary, Switzerland (2023); The Valley, Taos (2022); Stems Gallery, Paris (2022); Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL (2020); Newington Gallery, London (2019) and Central Park Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2019), among others. Bassens work resides in the permanent collections of the ICA Miami and Colección SOLO, Madrid, Spain.
