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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. More than one critic has noted the influence of Cy Twombly, and one reviewer in particular, parallels with Jean-Michel Basquiat. 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.” Significant works from this period include Cow (1983), Encyclical (1984) and The Passion (1984), all of which were included in the 1984 exhibition, "Emerging Massachusetts Painters," at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Alfonse Borysewicz (born April 27, 1957) is a Brooklyn-based painter. He 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). Gregory Wolfe, an editor at Image, calls Borysewicz "one of the most important religious artists since the French Catholic Georges Rouault.”