Alex Grey: Art as Language
Alex Grey is coming to UF. Grey will be speaking at the Health Professions and Nursing and Pharmacy Auditorium on Tuesday, November 10 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Alex Grey is a visionary artist, and mystic and co-founder of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in NYC. His paintings take on an "x-ray" multidimensional reality, illustrating human anatomy through the lens of a much more subtle world. He often paints chakras and draws electronic glowing grids which depict an ethereal plain of consciousness. His images have steadily progressed throughout the years as well as his performances and speeches. Grey's performances have gone from egocentric to worldcentric as he involves larger and larger communities into the spiritual, artistic and medicinal realms.
One of his largest installations, the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors is a series of 21 framed images, consisting of 19 paintings and two etched mirrors, examines the anatomy of body, mind and spirit in rich detail. Each painting presents a life-sized figure facing viewers and inviting them to mirror the images, creating a sense of seeing into oneself. The images portray the human body physically and energetically, each increasing in evolutionary complexity. This installation is unique in the way visistors participate: by mirroring the images depicted, the visitor can connect to the world of ancient wisdom, which Grey recreates. Some view the images of the Sacred Mirror to be the visible ascension of man into the spirit world/ into life.
Alex Grey is a visionary artist, and mystic and co-founder of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in NYC. His paintings take on an "x-ray" multidimensional reality, illustrating human anatomy through the lens of a much more subtle world. He often paints chakras and draws electronic glowing grids which depict an ethereal plain of consciousness. His images have steadily progressed throughout the years as well as his performances and speeches. Grey's performances have gone from egocentric to worldcentric as he involves larger and larger communities into the spiritual, artistic and medicinal realms.
One of his largest installations, the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors is a series of 21 framed images, consisting of 19 paintings and two etched mirrors, examines the anatomy of body, mind and spirit in rich detail. Each painting presents a life-sized figure facing viewers and inviting them to mirror the images, creating a sense of seeing into oneself. The images portray the human body physically and energetically, each increasing in evolutionary complexity. This installation is unique in the way visistors participate: by mirroring the images depicted, the visitor can connect to the world of ancient wisdom, which Grey recreates. Some view the images of the Sacred Mirror to be the visible ascension of man into the spirit world/ into life.
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