Chase Montague Markovich

was born In New Orleans, LA. It was a beautiful day in May. 

He attended Jesuit High School and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.

During this time he received accolades for his photography from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts' YoungArts program,

winning a $1500 grant and a week long photography workshop in Miami, Florida.

Throughout high school he was obsessed with dreams and the hidden reaches of the Psyche and worked like a feverish monk till exhausted and half-mad.     

Because of a Hurricane Katrina in 2005 he relocated to Chicago.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago allowed him to attend classes for a semester as part of a refugee assistance grant, but Chase never left because he is very stubborn.

SAIC being an interdisciplinary melting pot gave Chase an opportunity to explore the full spectrum of fine arts: 

photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, bookmaking, sound design, and more. 

For five years he toiled there in relative anonymity, addressing possibility, cultivating wonder, and eventually graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts emphasis in Writing.

There was also a three year long stint as an artist assistant to metal sculptor Carolyn Ottmers in the SAIC foundry, and a gallery assistant at Kasia Kay Art Projects.

In search of Salvation he returned to New Orleans, where he lives today; like, really LIVES.

 *above images credited to Gwendolyn Eberts Markovich

or Rick Olivier