![]() ![]() It was during this period that Alex developed depictions of the human body that “x-ray” the multiple layers of reality, and reveal the interplay of anatomical and spiritual forces. Begun in 1979, the series took a period of ten years to complete. The Sacred Mirrors, present the physical and subtle anatomy of an individual in the context of cosmic, biological and technological evolution. ![]() Grey’s unique series of 21 life-sized paintings, the Sacred Mirrors, take the viewer on a journey toward their own divine nature by examining, in detail, the body, mind, and spirit. In a major performance entitled WorldSpirit, spoken word poetry in musical collaboration with Kenji Williams was released in 2004 as a DVD. The approximately fifty performance rites, conducted over the last thirty years move through transformations from an egocentric to more sociocentric and increasingly worldcentric and theocentric identity. In 1972 Grey began a series of art actions that bear resemblance to rites of passage, in that they present stages of a developing psyche. The couple now teach MAGI workshops (Mystic Artists Guild International) at CoSM in Wappinger, New York. Grey instructed Artistic Anatomy and Figure Sculpture for ten years at New York University, and has taught the Visionary Art Intensive and other art workshops with Allyson at The New York Open Center, Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, the California Institute of Integral Studies and Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. Doctors at Harvard saw images of his Sacred Mirrors, and hired Alex for illustration work. Alex’s anatomical training prepared him for painting the Sacred Mirrors (see below) and for working as a medical illustrator. Joan Borysenko as a research technologist at Harvard’s department of Mind/Body Medicine, conducting scientific experiments to investigate subtle healing energies. For five years, Alex worked in the Anatomy department at Harvard Medical School preparing cadavers for dissection while he studied the body on his own. The Grey couple continued to take “sacramental journeys” on LSD. At their meeting in 1975, an entheogenically induced mystical experience transformed his agnostic existentialism to a radical transcendentalism. At the Museum School, Alex met his life-long partner, the artist, Allyson Rymland Grey. Grey then moved to Boston to study with and work as studio assistant for conceptual artist, Jay Jaroslav, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1974-5. Grey dropped out of art school and painted billboards for Columbus Outdoor Advertising, 1973-4. Alex went to the Columbus College of Art and Design on full scholarship from 1971-3. The themes of death and transcendence weave throughout his artworks, from the earliest drawings to later performances, paintings and sculpture. Young Alex would collect insects and dead animals from the suburban neighborhood and bury them in the back yard. His father was a graphic designer and encouraged his son’s drawing ability. Equally meaningful for art lovers, the health and spiritual communities, and anyone seeking to develop their creativity, Art Psalms features over 150 new reproductions of drawings, paintings, and sacred geometry to enrich and awaken the inner artist in each of us.Īlex Grey was born in Columbus, Ohio on Novem(Sagittarius), the middle child of a gentle middle-class couple. Three annotated portfolios, "Meditations on the Divine Feminine," "Meditations on the Masters," and "Meditations on Mortality," explore the connection between drawing and meditation as ways of seeing. The entire text of Grey’s spoken word performance, "WorldSpirit," is included here. Selections include "Soul Marriage," which invites the reader to commit to personal and global transformation "Guidance for Servants of God," precepts for life as a sacred path and "The Plan," which aligns universal and individual creativity. Many of these writings have been shared at gatherings worldwide, especially at New York City’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM), a contemporary sacred space co-founded by Alex and Allyson Grey. Grey’s oracular poetry declares that art, both its creation and its observation, can be a spiritual practice. Art Psalms combines poems, artwork, and "mystic rants" that fuse imagination, creativity, and spirituality. ![]() ![]() The power of art as a transformative path is the theme of this inspiring collection from internationally known artist Alex Grey. ![]()
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