Then I moved east and attended art school again for a year, studying conceptual and performance art.įocusing on an examination of polarities such as life and death, I observed and documented a dead dog rotting. I sent invitations to the openings of the new boards I painted, calling the work Capitalist Realism, making them part of the conceptual art movement of the 70's. I dropped out of art school after two years and went to work for Columbus Outdoor Advertising to paint billboards. GW: Alex, can you recall your years as an art student? Also, at what point were you first interested in visionary art?ĪG: As an art student I was a nihilist existentialist. The international psychedelic community has embraced Grey as an important mapmaker and spokesman for the visionary realm. Alex has been a keynote speaker at conferences all over the world including Tokyo, Amsterdam, Basel, Barcelona and Manaus. 1, The Outsider Art Fair and the New Museum in NYC, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including Feature Inc., Tibet House, Stux Gallery, P.S. Grey's paintings have been featured in venues as diverse as the album art of Tool, SCI, the Beastie Boys and Nirvana, Newsweek magazine, the Discovery Channel, Rave flyers and sheets of blotter acid. He and his wife Allyson Grey are the co-founders of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, aka CoSM, a non-profit institution supporting Visionary Culture in New York City. He is also on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and is the Chair of Wisdom University's Sacred Art Department. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute. His oeuvre spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, and painting. Alex Grey is an artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement.

The mission of art by alex grey