Bascove

Biography

Bascove has had over 30 solo exhibitions in New York & Paris including The Museum of the City of New York, Hudson River Museum, Municipal Art Society, The Jung Institute, The National Arts Club, Noble Maritime Collection, Morris Arts, & The Arsenal in Central Park. 

Group exhibition venues include Le Grand Palais, Musée de Cherbourg, Paine Weber Art Gallery, New York Historical Society, Brooklyn Historical Society, Vero Beach Museum of Art, & The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Her political and literary work is in the Permanent Collection of the Norman Rockwell Museum.

Chosen by the US State Department’s Art in Embassies Cultural Exchange, her work was exhibited at the American Embassies in 2016-19 and again in 2024-2026.

As a culture writer, she has contributed to Arte Fuse, Stay Thirsty, and  New York Arts Magazine.

She received her B.A. from the Philadelphia College of Art. 

Three collections of her paintings have been published, accompanied by anthologies of related writings: Sustenance & Desire: A Food Lover’s Anthology of Sensuality & Humor, Where books Fall Open: A Reader’s Anthology of Wit & Passion, and Stone & Steel: Paintings & Writings Celebrating the Bridges of New York City.

Collections

Museum of the City of New York, NY, U. S. Department of State, Art in Embassies, Hudson River Museum, The New York Historical Society, The Norman Rockwell Museum, MA, University of Texas at Tyler, TX, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, PA,  Massey College, Toronto, The Noble Maritime Collection, NY, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, Harry Ransom Collection, University of Texas at Austin, TX, Time Warner Collection, NY, The New York Public Library, NY, MTA Arts for Transit, NY, The Library and National Archives, Canada,Rachofsky Collection, TX,The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, TX, Norwalk Transit District, Norwalk, CT, Oresman Collection, NY, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Musée de Cherbourg, France

Artist statement

New York City has more than 2000 bridges connecting and integrating its various neighborhoods and environs. In their day, these engineering marvels represented the inventiveness and boldness of a young country to the rest of the world. Even today, the sensation of suspension, whether crossing over water or above land, of moving from one world to another while hovering above, is both timeless and exhilarating. 

After decades of drawing, painting, and making prints of these magnificent bridges, I began to arrange and reconstruct my research photographs differently. Reassembling the geometry and architectural details of these structures, many I’ve come to know intimately was a delight. They instantly became new spaces to explore. Other obsessions – the moon, botany, and reading -- that had previously been painted in a more realistic manner were soon treated to this same investigation. 

Mixed media is uniquely liberating for this pursuit. My photographs and drawing are integrated with gouache cut outs, magazine and book scraps, thread, and fabric. Fusing many passions -- astronomy, sewing arts, architecture and engineering, and the natural sciences -- they uncover the innate dynamism of growth and form.

I want these compositions to have movement, energy that reflects the excitement felt while they were growing and changing, seeing various elements joyfully finding new contexts, and finally, building new relationships between them.