Guy Church

A self-taught artist from Madison, Wisconsin, Guy Church’s intricate drawings are rendered in pen, ink, graphite, charcoal, and colored pencil. His subjects are most often everyday people, in particular children, which Church depicts in engaged in various enigmatic states of fantastical play. Church has stated about his work, “I like the subject of people and what they do. I pretty much just try to invent a face that looks like the person in the story I have in my mind. I ask myself, ‘What is she thinking about?’ Well that’s kind of up to the viewer, I guess. She’s not a real person. She’s a picture.”

Church’s work has been shown at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the Natasha Nicholson Gallery in Madison, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN and recently became part of the collection of the Brooks Museum in Memphis.