Alfonse Borysewicz
American
American, b. 1957
Alfonse Borysewicz received his B.A. from Sacred Heart Seminary and M.A. from St. John’s Provincial Seminary. He later attended the Studio School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1982–1984). He is the recipient of two fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1987, 1992) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1995). Borysewicz describes the work of his seminary years (pre-1981) as “garish––sort of Otto Dix meets Marc Chagall.” After seminary, where he was taught and mentored by Edgar Yaeger, Borysewicz moved to Boston where he was, in his words, “exhibiting neo-expressionist, angst ridden paintings.” The works from this period are on un-stretched canvas and covered with a mixture of paint, mud, sand, leaves and in some cases crayon and gold leaf. Many of these early works include animals, but the scenes are rarely pastoral. In fact, they have been described as “an imagined hell of grotesque beasts.”
American
American, b. 1957
Alfonse Borysewicz received his B.A. from Sacred Heart Seminary and M.A. from St. John’s Provincial Seminary. He later attended the Studio School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1982–1984). He is the recipient of two fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1987, 1992) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1995). Borysewicz describes the work of his seminary years (pre-1981) as “garish––sort of Otto Dix meets Marc Chagall.” After seminary, where he was taught and mentored by Edgar Yaeger, Borysewicz moved to Boston where he was, in his words, “exhibiting neo-expressionist, angst ridden paintings.” The works from this period are on un-stretched canvas and covered with a mixture of paint, mud, sand, leaves and in some cases crayon and gold leaf. Many of these early works include animals, but the scenes are rarely pastoral. In fact, they have been described as “an imagined hell of grotesque beasts.”
Artist Objects
Gethsemane 2008.063
Artist Images