Alex Grey

Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953 in Columbus, Ohio) is an artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. His oeuvre spans a variety of forms including performance art, installation art, sculpture, and most significantly, painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute.

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His paintings can be described as an unusual contemporary blend of sacred or visionary art and postmodern art. His work often depicts aspects of the supernatural world overlayed with aspects of the natural world. Some viewers report that elevated or spiritual states are induced while viewing - which, in the tradition, is the purpose of sacred art. His work has an eclecticism that often integrates auras, human anatomy, religious icons (sometimes reminiscent of thangkas), geometric shapes and tessellations (sometimes reminiscent of mandalas), in natural, industrial, and multicultural situations. The human figures are sometimes shown nude (usually with partially translucent skin), in sexual situations, or meditating. This incorporation of the high and low, the sacred and secular gives his art a postmodern feel. However, the sacred aspect essentially expunges any sense of irony or insencerity often associated with postmodern art (e.g., some people's reactions to the art of Andy Warhol). This spiritual aspect provides an organization that is actually not very eclectic at all, but better characterized as being syncretic.

1953: 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday....

Columbus, Ohio: Columbus, Ohio...

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