///GUY CHASE : PAINTING

Guy received a BFA from Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota and completed an MFA in painting and drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a member of Christians in The Visual Arts, and his work comments on the interpretation and understanding of prayer and meditation as well as the formal qualities of artmaking. The materials and shapes in his paintings allude to historical icons or altar pieces of Eastern and Western forms of worship and spirituality. Guy strives to draw out unusual connections between things, connections that draw attention to questionable assumptions. He spends a lot of time with this process as a way of testing his own values. While in residence at McColl Center, his work was included in Like A Prayer: A Jewish and Christian Presence in Contemporary Art, an exhibition presented by McColl Center for Visual Art at the Spirit Square Community School for the Arts.