![]() ![]() ![]() 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 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. 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.Īt the Museum School, Alex met his life-long partner, the artist, Allyson Rymland Grey. Grey dropped out of art school and painted billboards for Columbus Outdoor Advertising, 1973-4. The themes of death and transcendence weave throughout his artworks, from the earliest drawings to later performances, paintings and sculpture.Īlex went to the Columbus College of Art and Design on full scholarship from 1971-3. Young Alex would collect insects and dead animals from the suburban neighbourhood 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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