Artist and author Alex Grey is best known for his visionary paintings that integrate the anatomical body with the transcendental light of the soul. His work brings together the paths of science, creativity, and spirituality. Grey's paintings, sculpture, and performances have been honored exhibitions in Sao Paulo Biennial, the Grand Palais in Paris, Venice, and at the American Visionary Art Museum, the New Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Tool, Beastie Boys, Nirvana, SCI, and David Byrne have featured Grey's work as album art. "WorldSpirit," a spoken word piece, drew over a thousand people when performed in Oakland, California, and is available as both a CD and DVD. Grey's artworks are chronicled in the monographs, Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey (published in six languages), Transfigurations, and in his pictorial philosophical text, The Mission of Art.
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, a long-term exhibition of fifty works of Grey's transformative art, was co-founded by Allyson and Alex Grey in 2004 in New York City. In 2007 the Greys co-authored CoSM, a photographic book tour of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. It is at CoSM that Grey has shared many of the poems collected now in Art Psalms. Alex lives in New York City with his wife, the painter Allyson Grey, and their daughter, the actress Zena Grey.
"Who says the time of revelations is in the past? Alex Grey's Art
Psalms and his life's work bear witness to the aliveness of Spirit
in our dangerous and decisive times. Read and pray this book and
grow your soul!"
--Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing and Creativity: Where
the Divine and the Human Meet "Grey's vision of a flawed, but
perfectible mankind stands as an antidote to the cynicism and
spiritual malaise prevalent in much contemporary art."
--New York Times "Alex Grey is one of the great art-mystics of our
time."
--Donald Kuspit, professor of art history and philosophy, SUNY at
Stoney Brook, and editor and critic for Artforum "Whether a
believer or non-believer, one could not help but be inspired by the
sheer beauty of this volume, and the social heartbeat of this
book.... The artwork is eye-grabbing, spirit-quickening,
expressive-surrealism in a style uniquely Alex Grey's. Reminiscent
of Leonardo Da Vinci's mastery, his anatomical plotting brings to
mind mirrors of astronomical maps, connecting the body, mind and
soul to the oneness of all, through synaptically charged points of
light. The images pulse with light and life. Each tenderly rendered
vision is accompanied by written timeless truths. One is serenaded
and lifted by songs of the ages as told by Grey. The verses
themselves seem to follow the illuminated body seamlessly, honoring
humanity and the universe."
--Tina Jones, for About.com
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