The most extensive collection of Grey\'s visionary artwork and life\'s journey in one volume - Includes a foreword by Albert Hofmann and essays on Grey\'s work by renowned art critic Donald Kuspit, philosopher Ken Wilber, and Stephen Larsen, author of Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind - 21, 000 sold in hardcover since October 2001 Every once in a great while an artist emerges who does more than simply reflect the social trends of the time.
He lives in New York..
His art has also been featured in venues as diverse as album covers for the Beastie Boys, Nirvana, and Tool
Newsweek magazine; and the Discovery Channel.
His work has been exhibited around the world, including at the New Museum and Stux Gallery in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Grand Palais in Paris, the S o Paulo Biennial, and the ARK exhibition space in Tokyo.
About the Author: Alex Grey is the author of Sacred Mirrors and The Mission of Art.
Alex Grey\'s striking artwork leads us on the soul\'s journey from material world encasement to recovery of the divinely illuminated core.
His portrayals of human beings blend anatomical exactitude with visionary depictions of universal life energy.
Transfigurations, the follow-up to Grey\'s Sacred Mirrors (1991)--one of the most successful art books of the 1990s--includes all of Grey\'s major works completed in the following decade, including the masterful seven-paneled altarpiece Nature of Mind, called "the grand climax of Grey\'s art" by Donald Kuspit.
Today, a growing number of art critics, philosophers, and spiritual seekers believe that they have found that vision in the art of Alex Grey.
Such an artist is able to transcend established thinking and help us redefine ourselves and our world.
The most extensive collection of Grey\'s visionary artwork and life\'s journey in one volume - Includes a foreword by Albert Hofmann and essays on Grey\'s work by renowned art critic Donald Kuspit, philosopher Ken Wilber, and Stephen Larsen, author of Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind - 21, 000 sold in hardcover since October 2001 Every once in a great while an artist emerges who does more than simply reflect the social trends of the time
