Every once in a great while an artist emerges who does more than simply reflect the social trends of the time. These artists are able to transcend established thinking and help us redefine ourselves and our world. Today, a growing number of art critics, philosophers, and spiritual seekers believe they have found that vision in the art of Alex Grey. Alex’s paintings take the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self. Grey’s portrayals of human beings blend scientific exactitude with visionary depictions of universal life energy, leading us on the soul’s journey from material world encasement to recovery of our divinely illuminated core.
Alex Grey is the author of Transfigurations, Sacred Mirrors (75,000 copies sold) and The Mission of Art. His work has graced the album covers of Tool, Nirvana and the Beastie Boys, and has been exhibited around the world.
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Collective Vision: One of the central themes of my artworks is how to symbolically integrate the highest transcendent states of awareness with portrayals of the physical body. The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eyefield suggests both expansion of consciousness, and sharing of consciousness with other beings. The painting was based on a profoundly ego-dissolving entheogenic mystical trance where I heard the words, "Infinite Oneness... the Oneness should never forget the Infinitude and the Infinitude should never forget the Oneness...."
Alex Grey is the author of Transfigurations, Sacred Mirrors (75,000 copies sold) and The Mission of Art. His work has graced the album covers of Tool, Nirvana and the Beastie Boys, and has been exhibited around the world.
Sample caption:
Collective Vision: One of the central themes of my artworks is how to symbolically integrate the highest transcendent states of awareness with portrayals of the physical body. The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eyefield suggests both expansion of consciousness, and sharing of consciousness with other beings. The painting was based on a profoundly ego-dissolving entheogenic mystical trance where I heard the words, "Infinite Oneness... the Oneness should never forget the Infinitude and the Infinitude should never forget the Oneness...."
