I'm making work because I have to. I come from a lineage of workers, it's all I know.
Through processes of disassembly and repair, I work to make the unfathomable accessible using an assemblage of methods as a visual language.
Often centered on objects and spaces related to the body, I create works at the intersection of the mundane and the universal.
Artist Bio
Josue Bessiake is an Ivorian-American painter working across media,
Bessiake uses multiple discplines to explore the ingredients of a phenomenon using the body as the origin. Influenced by his experience as a second-generation immigrant his work reflects his desire to connect himself to his environment. In a process involving reassembly, experimentation, and collection, Bessiake’s work is a collision between practicality and abstraction making references to scale, memory. and collective consciousness.
Josue Bessiake has presented work at the National Gallery of the Bahamas, Chautauqua School of Visual Arts, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Recent Exhibitions include exhibits at The University of Texas: Edinburgh; Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA; and the University of the Bahamas. Bessiake was a recent finalist for the AXA Art Prize at the New York Academy of Art and is a recipient of a grant from the Elisabeth Greenshield Foundation.
Contact
Email:
josuebessiake@gmail.com
Instagram:
@josuebessiake