#Alex grey blotter art series
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. The most recent performance was WorldSpirit, a spoken word and musical collaboration with Kenji Williams which 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. Grey was an instructor in Artistic Anatomy and Figure Sculpture for ten years at New York University, and now teaches courses in Visionary Art with Allyson at The Open Center in New York City, Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, the California Institute of Integral Studies and Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. When doctors saw his Sacred Mirrors, they asked him to do illustration work. Alex's anatomical training prepared him for painting the Sacred Mirrors (explained below) and for doing medical illustration. Joan Borysenko conducting scientific experiments to investigate subtle healing energies. He also worked at Harvard's department of Mind/Body Medicine with Dr.
Alex then spent five years at Harvard Medical School working in the Anatomy department studying the body and preparing cadavers for dissection. The Grey couple would trip together on LSD. During this period he had a series of entheogenically induced mystical experiences that transformed his agnostic existentialism to a radical transcendentalism. Grey then attended the Boston Museum School for one year, to study with the conceptual artist, Jay Jaroslav.Īt the Boston Museum School he met his wife, the artist, Allyson Rymland Grey. He went to the Columbus College of Art and Design for two years (1971-73), then dropped out and painted billboards in Ohio for a year (73-74). 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. Alex Grey was born in Columbus, Ohio on Novem(Sagittarius), the middle child of a gentle middle-class couple.
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