Alex Grey : Net of Being

New Works by Alex Grey : Net of Being
Opening Reception
6pm – 9pm
free to the public
Alex Grey’s painting, “Net of Being,” has been introduced to millions of people by the rock band TOOL. After years of labor this epic work is now on view along with numerous new artworks depicting Grey’s mystic visions and an architectural model of the future Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.
10pm – 3am in CoSMosis live painting
Alex & Allyson Grey
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Alex Grey paints Barack Obama
Alex Grey’s portrait of the ‘visionary Senator’ President Elect, Barack Obama. The painting was begun at the Rock the Ink Tattoo Convention, in Rhode Island on October 23, 2008, in front of a live audience.
Visionary Art: The Vanguard of Tradition by Erik Davis
Stretching out like one of the Buddha’s great bejeweled parasols, the term Visionary Art encompasses a wide variety of styles, genres, periods, and degrees of abstraction. Definitions abound, but here is my hard crystal: visionary art is art that resonates with visionary experiences, those undeniably powerful eruptions of numinous and multidimensional perception that suggest other orders of reality.
Toward a Visionary Culture by Alex Grey
NY Arts website/magazine article written by Alex Grey
Alex Grey and Sacred Anatomy by Daniel Mirante
“If we were to look closely at an individual human being, we would immediately notice that it is a unique hologram unto itself; self-contained, self generating and self-knowledgeable. Yet if we were to remove this being from its planetary context, we would quickly realize that the human form is not unlike a mandala or symbolic [...]