About Guy

Guy Sealey’s muse did not dance lightly into his life sprinkling beautifully-colored trails of artistic inspiration. Quite the opposite in fact. He found his passion and purpose while standing night guard in the South African army during Apartheid. Mandatory two-year service fighting for racial segregation under a corrupt government made him angry and hopeless -- until he started creating. Those army creations may have looked like standard advertising posters but were actually veiled anti-apartheid messages contained within beautiful imagery. When his clueless commanding officers commissioned the work for their homes, he knew he’d found an outlet for his frustration and his ultimate path. Feeling the power of paintings as protest, his artistic vision was born:
it better fucking move you and stand for something.

Guy eventually made his way to Parsons School of Design in NYC, graduating with a BFA in Communication Design. He spent his early career in advertising where his desire for honest communications and inability to speak anything other than the truth in his work got him kicked out of more than a few meetings and one or two agencies. Advertising is still not the place where truth is celebrated. And so, he left. Or it left him. Doesn’t really matter.

At 50, he stopped. Pivoted. Had a midlife moment. A chance meeting at a bar led to a four-month butcher’s apprentice training in Red Hook, Brooklyn under Fleishers’ Craft Butcher’s master butcher, Jason Yang. After graduating, he worked in their retail shop as butcher and assistant manager of the Fleishers butchery in Westport, CT.

Butchering also gave him time and space to find his way back into his art studio (where he should have been all along.)

He now produces sculptures using bone and sterling silver. He also produces  written meditations on paper which are shown here.

Both his sculptures and works on paper focus on the concepts of human consciousness or lack there of.

After the 30-year, far-flung and no-way-to-plot-out path
Guy has blazed, he truly believes that if you ask, the universe will conspire to help you.

You just have to watch for the breadcrumbs she leaves for you.