American, 1953. Alex Grey is a famous visual artist, teacher, and author known for his psychedelic and spiritual paintings. Alex Grey's artworks are available in the forms like process art, visionary art, sculptures, paintings, performance art, and installation art. The artist is an advisory board member of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics and Chairs the Sacred Art Department of Wisdom University.
Alex Grey was born on November 29, 1953, in Ohio and was a son of an artist and graphic designer. He studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design and dropped out after two years. He later went on to study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, in 1975. Alex Grey's paintings are a combination of postmodern, visionary art and sacred art. He is well-known for his glowing anatomical human body paintings, which feature a complex synthesis of body, spirit, and mind. His paintings are famous for portraying dimensions of reality, interlinking biological anatomy with spiritual and psychic energies. Alex Grey's artworks like the life-sized collection of 21 paintings titled Sacred Mirrors are famous for their detailed metaphysical anatomy. Alex Grey's paintings also feature religious symbols like chakras, icons, and auras through geometric patterns and shapes and feature subtle and intense light tones. Alex Grey's publications portray his visual reflection of life. His renowned vocation involves world-famous exhibitions.
He is also featured on CBC, Discovery Channel, Time magazines, and Newsweek. Alex Grey's artwork has been a part of albums of multi-platinum bands like Beastie Boys, String Cheese Incident, Tool, and Nirvana. His most exceptional and acclaimed transformative artworks were on display at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, New York, for five years. Alex Grey's artworks for sale are often available with leading online auction galleries. Collectors can also find Alex Grey artworks for sale online on leading auction platforms.