On Tuesday, May 5th, we celebrated the release of Painting Prayer: Why Faith Needs Art - and Art Needs Faithwith a conversation with artist Alfonse Borysewicz and Arthouse2B cofounder and Executive Director Erin K. McAtee.

Alfonse Borysewicz is a Brooklyn-based painter. A Detroit native, he has a BA from Sacred Heart Seminary and an MA from St. John's Provincial Seminary. He attended the Studio School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA and is a recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Foundation fellowships (1987, 1992), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1995), and Templeton Religion Trust grant. His work has been featured in The New York Times and Art in America. This is his first book.

Alfonse’s work has been seen in a number of Arthouse2B gallery shows, including sub*stansia, In The Flesh, and De-compositions. His work was most recently seen in a group exhibition, FEAST, at St. Joe’s in Greenwich Village in April 2026.

FEAST was a gallery exhibition of visual and written art contemplating the elements of celebration: generosity, hospitality, joy, creativity, and freedom. No longer is feasting just “a good time,” but it becomes a fruitful and transcendent act that provokes our memory of our truest human nature-- to come to know the goodness and beauty of the divine. 

On April 30th, curator Emilia Tanu Chornay gave a beautiful talk about the theme of the gallery and the selected artworks.