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Alfonse Borysewicz (born in 1957) is a painter based in New York City. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan Borysewicz pursued the priesthood before leaving the seminary to study art at the Museum School in Boston. Noted for his early earthly abstract paintings inaugurated at the Basement Gallery and ICA (Currents Series) in Boston in the early 80's Borysewicz moved on to New York shortly thereafter where he exhibited widely. In 1995 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting. Recently he has returned to his interest in religion with a focus on engaging sacred spaces across the country, beginning with St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York (2001) and St. James Cathedral in Seattle (2012), the Oratory Church of St. Boniface (2009) and the Co Cathedral of St. Josephs(2012), both in Brooklyn, and most recently Judson Memorial Church (2014). Essays by Borysewicz on the enduring relationship between art and religion have appeared in Image and Transpositions.

     