Alex Grey     Born:  1953 in Columbus, Ohio; lives and works in New York     Education:  Columbus College of Art and design (1971-73), Boston Museum School study with Jay Jaroslav     Teaching:  Instructor in Artistic Anatomy and Figure Sculpture for ten years at New York University,  currently teaching courses in Visionary Art with his wife, 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.   prints by Alex Grey

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Description of art from the artist's biographical summary: "Alex Grey spent several years employed by Harvard Medical School working in the morgue preparing cadavers and studying the human anatomy. During this period he began having a series of mystical experiences which transformed his agnostic existentialism to a radical transcendentalism. His work began to explore the nature of consciousness and vision states. During the 1970's and 80's Grey did numerous performances and sculptural installations based on his visions. Grey's unique series of 21 life-sized paints, the "Sacred Mirrors", examine, in detail, the physical and metaphysical anatomy of an individual. Begun in 1979, the series took a period of ten years to complete. After painting the "Sacred Mirrors", Grey applied this multidimensional perspective to painted visions of crucial human experiences such as praying, kissing, copulating, pregnancy, birth and dying. Grey portrays the body as translucent, revealing complex anatomical systems and interwoven with glowing subtle energies visible to clairvoyants. Viewers recognize in his work an archetypal spiritual awareness expressed through contemplative mystical visions.

In additon Grey was featured in a television program about the brain, mind and creativity on the Discovery Channel. Grey has been a key note speaker at the International Traspersonal Association and numerous Art and Healing conferences. Articles and reviews about Grey's work have appeared in art journals and several spiritual and new age magazines.