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In ''ARTmind'' (2004) Grey explores the healing potential of [[sacred art]]. ''CoSM'' the movie, was released in 2006 and features Grey giving a tour of the ''[[The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors|Chapel of Sacred Mirrors]]'' exhibition on display (2004-2009) in New York City. Grey appeared in the 2006 film ''Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within'', a documentary about rediscovering an [[Disenchantment|enchanted]] cosmos in the modern world.<ref>{{cite video |people=Mann, Rod (Director) |title=Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within |url=http://www.entheogen.tv/ |year=2006 |type=DVD video |publisher=Critical Mass Productions |accessdate=19 November 2012 |oclc=181630835}}</ref> He also appeared in the film ''DMT: The Spirit Molecule, ''in which he talked about the importance of the substance DMT in the past and present world, as well as describing some of his personal experiences with the substance and how it influenced his painting. |
In ''ARTmind'' (2004) Grey explores the healing potential of [[sacred art]]. ''CoSM'' the movie, was released in 2006 and features Grey giving a tour of the ''[[The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors|Chapel of Sacred Mirrors]]'' exhibition on display (2004-2009) in New York City. Grey appeared in the 2006 film ''Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within'', a documentary about rediscovering an [[Disenchantment|enchanted]] cosmos in the modern world.<ref>{{cite video |people=Mann, Rod (Director) |title=Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within |url=http://www.entheogen.tv/ |year=2006 |type=DVD video |publisher=Critical Mass Productions |accessdate=19 November 2012 |oclc=181630835 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111070217/http://www.entheogen.tv/ |archivedate=11 November 2012 |df= }}</ref> He also appeared in the film ''DMT: The Spirit Molecule, ''in which he talked about the importance of the substance DMT in the past and present world, as well as describing some of his personal experiences with the substance and how it influenced his painting. |
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== Paintings == |
== Paintings == |
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The [[Discovery Channel]] included Grey in a feature on art and creativity in [[altered states of consciousness|altered states]]. |
The [[Discovery Channel]] included Grey in a feature on art and creativity in [[altered states of consciousness|altered states]]. |
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The ''[[Viking Youth Power Hour]]'' [http://www.thefeedlot.org/vikingyouth/show_show.php?show=68&x=9&y=16 interviewed Alex and Allyson Grey] about the role of [[sacred art]], the holy shenanigans of [[Burning Man]], and the development of his process. |
The ''[[Viking Youth Power Hour]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927024517/http://www.thefeedlot.org/vikingyouth/show_show.php?show=68&x=9&y=16 interviewed Alex and Allyson Grey] about the role of [[sacred art]], the holy shenanigans of [[Burning Man]], and the development of his process. |
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Grey's work and his Chapel of Sacred Mirrors gallery in New York City are featured in a 2006 DVD release ''CoSM The Movie'', directed by Nick Krasnic. |
Grey's work and his Chapel of Sacred Mirrors gallery in New York City are featured in a 2006 DVD release ''CoSM The Movie'', directed by Nick Krasnic. |
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Grey talks about his personal philosophy in the 2009 film ''[http://cognitionfactor.net/cognition-factor/the-cast/AlexGrey.html Cognition Factor]''.<ref>http://www.cognitionfactor.net/the-cast/AlexGrey.html</ref> |
Grey talks about his personal philosophy in the 2009 film ''[http://cognitionfactor.net/cognition-factor/the-cast/AlexGrey.html Cognition Factor]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cognitionfactor.net/the-cast/AlexGrey.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-11-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20130221122349/http://www.cognitionfactor.net/the-cast/AlexGrey.html |archivedate=2013-02-21 |df= }}</ref> |
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In ''[[Variable Star]]'', a science fiction novel written by [[Spider Robinson]] based on a story outline by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], Robinson devotes several pages to his protagonist's discovery of Grey's ''Sacred Mirrors'' and ''Progress of the Soul'' series, and to using them to enhance meditation.<ref name="robinson">{{cite book |
In ''[[Variable Star]]'', a science fiction novel written by [[Spider Robinson]] based on a story outline by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], Robinson devotes several pages to his protagonist's discovery of Grey's ''Sacred Mirrors'' and ''Progress of the Soul'' series, and to using them to enhance meditation.<ref name="robinson">{{cite book |
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* [http://culturehog.com/psychedelic-art Alex Grey and Music] on Culture Hog |
* [http://culturehog.com/psychedelic-art Alex Grey and Music] on Culture Hog |
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* [http://www.rawvision.com/articles/alex-greys-body-light Alex Grey's Body of Light, ''Raw Vision'' Issue 26] |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121120044229/http://www.rawvision.com/articles/alex-greys-body-light Alex Grey's Body of Light, ''Raw Vision'' Issue 26] |
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Revision as of 14:20, 10 December 2017
Alex Grey | |
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![]() Grey in front of his painting, Net of Being, 2013 | |
Born | Columbus, Ohio, United States | November 29, 1953
Occupation(s) | Artist, painter, author |
Known for | Spiritual and visionary art |
Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953) is an
Early life
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Alex_Grey_Painting_1.jpg/200px-Alex_Grey_Painting_1.jpg)
Grey was born Alex Velzy in
At the Boston Museum School he met his wife, the artist Allyson Rymland Grey.
Career
He also worked at Harvard's department of Mind/Body Medicine with Dr.
In 1972 Grey began a series of art actions that bear resemblance to
Grey's unique series of 21 life-sized paintings, the Sacred Mirrors (to be on display at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Alex_Grey_-_COSM_5.jpg/200px-Alex_Grey_-_COSM_5.jpg)
Holland Cotter, art critic for the New York Times wrote in 2002, "Alex Grey's art, with its New Age symbolism and medical-illustration finesse, might be described as psychedelic realism, a kind of clinical approach to cosmic consciousness. In it, the human figure is rendered transparently with X-ray or CAT-scan eyes, the way Aldous Huxley saw a leaf when he was on mescaline. Every bone, organ and vein is detailed in refulgent color; objects and space are knitted together in dense, decorative linear webs."
Grey has been a keynote speaker at conferences worldwide including Tokyo, Amsterdam, Basel, Barcelona and Manaus. The international psychedelic community has embraced Grey as an important "mapmaker" and spokesman for the visionary realm. In his compendium of psychedelic culture, Psychedelia (2012), Patrick Lundborg speaks of Grey's position: "First of all, Visionary Art would not be the active, promising field it is today without the appearance of Alex Grey on the scene. Born 1953, Alex Grey is the leading psychedelic artist of today, and also one of the foremost proponents of Visionary Art as a style. Via interviews, his own writings and the CoSM art journal, Grey has contributed to a historical perspective on the school..."[4]
A large installation called Heart Net by Alex and his wife was displayed at Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum in 1998-99. A mid-career retrospective of Grey's works was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in 1999. The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, a long-term exhibition of 50 works of transformative art by Grey opened in the Fall of 2004 in New York City and relocated to its present Hudson Valley location in 2009.
Publications
The large format art book, Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey published by Inner Traditions in 1990, is still in print and has been translated into five languages and sold over 150 thousand copies. This book of paintings takes the viewer on a graphic journey through the physical, and spiritual anatomy of the self. From anatomically correct rendering of the body systems, Grey moves to the spiritual/energetic systems with such images as Universal Mind Lattice, envisioning the sacred and esoteric symbolism of the body and the forces that define its living field of energy. Includes essays on the significance of Grey's work by Ken Wilber, the eminent transpersonal psychologist, and by the noted New York art critic, Carlo McCormick. Grey's philosophical text, The Mission of Art, published by Shambhala in 1998, traces the evolution of human consciousness through art history, explores the role of an artist's intention and conscience, and reflects on the creative process as a spiritual path.
Transfigurations is Alex's second large-format monograph from Inner Traditions, containing over 300 color and black and white images of his work. Transfigurations explores Grey's well known portrayals of light bodies, performance works, relationship with his wife, Allyson Grey, and their quest to build a Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. Sounds True has released The Visionary Artist, a CD of Grey's reflections on art as a spiritual practice. Grey co-edited the book, Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics (Chronicle Books, 2002, reprinted by Synergetic Press, 2015).
In 2004 Grey published his collected works in Visions, a limited-edition boxed set which contains a portfolio of new works along with his Sacred Mirrors and Transfigurations. Net of Being, released by Inner Traditions in 2012, explores how Alex Grey’s visionary art is evolving the cultural body through icons of interconnectedness and a new symbology of the Networked Self. Net of Being contains spectacular photos of Grey’s collaboration with the cult band Tool plus his worldwide live-painting performances, and offers Grey’s reflections on how art evolves consciousness.
Personal life
He lives in New York City and Wappinger, NY, with his wife, painter Allyson Grey. Their daughter, actress Zena Grey, lives in Los Angeles.
Films
In ARTmind (2004) Grey explores the healing potential of
Paintings
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Alex_Grey_Painting_2.jpg/200px-Alex_Grey_Painting_2.jpg)
Grey’s paintings can be described as a blend of
Philosophy
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Integral theorists |
Integral themes |
Influences on integral theory |
Integral artists |
Grey has also made his own contribution to the
In an interview with
Reception
Painting and music groups
Grey's artwork has often been used by music groups on their album covers.
- An album of David Byrneremixes called Visible Man featured Grey's artwork.
- Michael Hedges's album Torched features one of Grey's Holy Fire paintings on the cover.
- The liner notes for the In Uteroincluded a reproduction of Grey's painting Muscle System (Pregnant Woman) among a series of photographs of the band.
- The cover of The String Cheese Incident's album Untying the Not features Grey's work Cosmic Elf, commissioned specifically for the album.
- Hip-hop group the Beastie Boys featured Grey's Gaia painting as well as his Vision Crystal image inside the booklet of their album Ill Communication.
- Swedish EP.
- The Vicarious". Tool also used a few paintings from Alex on their 2007 tour of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- In 2004 a live multimedia performance was recorded as a DVD titled Worldspirit - featuring the animated artwork and live spoken word of Alex Grey, coupled with the project direction and live music of Kenji Williams.
- The alleged mystical properties of Grey's artwork are discussed in Stuart Davis' 2006 DVD Between the Music.
- DJ/Producer Bassnectar has used Alex Grey's artwork for multiple album covers.
- In 2008 and 2009, the tribal/psychedelic rock band TELESMA performed Winter Solstice concerts at which Alex and Allyson Grey appeared on stage and painted new original pieces. A DVD of their first collaborative Winter Solstice concert with TELESMA called Hearing Vision's LIVE was released in June 2010. On December 18, 2010, Alex and Allyson Grey again "live painted" new original pieces with TELESMA during the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) Full Moon Solstice Celebration.
In the media
Grey's artwork has been featured on the cover of and The Healing Power of Neurofeedback: The Revolutionary LENS Technique for Restoring Optimal Brain Function.
The
The
Grey's work and his Chapel of Sacred Mirrors gallery in New York City are featured in a 2006 DVD release CoSM The Movie, directed by Nick Krasnic.
Grey talks about his personal philosophy in the 2009 film Cognition Factor.[8]
In Variable Star, a science fiction novel written by Spider Robinson based on a story outline by Robert A. Heinlein, Robinson devotes several pages to his protagonist's discovery of Grey's Sacred Mirrors and Progress of the Soul series, and to using them to enhance meditation.[9]
Collections
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Alex_Grey_Explaining.jpg/200px-Alex_Grey_Explaining.jpg)
- Transfigurations
- Visions, 2003, a 2,000-copy limited edition collection of Grey's two hardcover books and a set of prints, all in an illustrated wooden case which folds out into an 'altar'
Publications
- 1990 - Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey (Alex Grey) (ISBN 0-89281-314-8
- 1998 - The Mission of Art (Alex Grey) (ISBN 978-1570623967
- 2001 - Transfigurations (Alex Grey) (ISBN 0-89281-851-4
- 2001 - The Mission of Art (Alex Grey) paperback edition of (ISBN 1-57062-545-X
- 2006 - True Visions (ISBN 88-902372-0-1
- 2007 - Metamorphosis: 50 Contemporary Surreal, Fantastic and Visionary Artists (beinArt) ISBN 978-0-9803231-0-8
- 2007 - CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (Alex Grey & Allyson Grey) (CoSM Press) ISBN 978-160402-121-9
- 2008 - Art Psalms (Alex Grey) (North Atlantic Books) ISBN 978-1-55643-756-4
- 2012 - Net of Being (Alex Grey & Allyson Grey) (ISBN 978-1594773846
References
- ^ David Ian Miller (March 24, 2008). "LSD Helped Forge Alex Grey's Spiritual, Artistic and Love Lives". San Francisco Chronicle "Finding My Religion" series.
- ^ Opencenter.org
- ^ Cotter, Holland, New York Times, Alex Grey Tibet House review, October 4, 2002
- ^ Lundborg, Patrick, Psychedelia, An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life, 2012, Lysergia, pg 421
- OCLC 181630835. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2012.)
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External links
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- Official website
- Alex Grey at IMDb
- Alex Grey and Music on Culture Hog
- Alex Grey's Body of Light, Raw Vision Issue 26