I was tempted to reply: “That’s interesting because I just started writing about a grown-up named Alex Grey who also sees ghosty things other people don’t see.” Instead, I asked Caleb to describe one of the ghosty things, and he said he saw a cupcake with a “skeleton head” in it.

“Jonathan, I see ghosty things other people don’t see.” On the morning I started writing this, a five-year-old named Caleb happened to be visiting the house and interrupted my writing session to tell me (and this is an exact quote): Alex and Allyson have collaborated on performance art, live-painting on stage throughout the world, and the “social sculpture” called CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, the church that the Grey's co-founded in 1996. The Grey's live at CoSM in Wappinger, New York and in Brooklyn.The following expose details the outstanding art from psychedelic artist Alex Grey. Grey’s recent work explores the subject of consciousness from the perspective of “universal beings” whose bodies are grids of fire, eyes and infinite galactic swirls.Īlex’s art has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, and in venues as diverse as the album art of TOOL, the Beastie Boys and Nirvana, Time and Newsweek magazines, the Discovery Channel, rave flyers and sheets of blotter acid. From 1979-89 Alex developed depictions of the human body that “x-ray” the multiple layers of reality and reveal the interplay of biological and light bodies. Inspired by Allyson Grey, and begun in 1979, Alex’s unique series of 21 life-sized paintings, the Sacred Mirrors, take the viewer on a journey toward their own divine nature by examining, the body, mind, and spirit of an individual in the context of cosmic, biological and technological evolution. From that point forward their artworks would be about sacred interconnectedness. The Grey couple continued to take 'sacramental journeys' on LSD, which led to their shared Universal Mind Lattice experience in 1976.

At their meeting in 1975, an entheogenically-induced mystical experience transformed Alex's agnostic existentialism to a radical transcendentalism. Alex went to the Columbus College of Art and Design from 1971-3 then studied at the Boston Museum School, 1974-5.Īt the Museum School, Alex met his life-long partner, the artist, Allyson Rymland Grey. Alex Grey was born in Columbus, Ohio on November 29, 1953.

The mission of art alex grey