 he Sacred Mirrors are beloved by thousands of people who have
seen them installed throughout the United States and Canada.
Over 60,000 copies of the book Sacred Mirrors have been sold
and the book is translated into five languages. The work is widely
admired by health-care practitioners of all kinds, critics,
artists, thinkers and seekers from a wide variety of traditions.
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hese awe-inspiring images emerged from courageous
explorations of the visionary state that Alex had with his wife,
artist Allyson Grey. Allyson, who initiated and named the project,
worked along side Alex on the frames and consulted on much of
the painting which Alex accomplished over a period of ten
years with relentless artistic discipline and painstaking work.
 lex's early forays into dark, transgressive performance art,
his youthful obsessions with death and decay, including a long
stint working in a morgue, also deeply inform his later, mature,
luminous work.
he Sacred Mirrors have a power and
authenticity that can only spring from a soul who has plunged into
the darker realms and come out whole. In his introduction to
Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey, Carlo
McCormick compares Grey's creative journey to a shaman who
travels at great peril to the lower realms to emerge with healing
teachings for the tribe.
 rey's work, in Ken Wilber's words "...reminds us of our own
higher possibilities, our own deepest nature, our own most
profound ground, which we are all invited to rediscover." This
carries on the lineage of sacred art as diverse as shamanic X-ray
art, the artwork of 12th century abbess, Hildegard of Bingen,
Michelangelo, Bosch, Blake, and Buddhist Thangka painters. Alex,
a professor of anatomy in the Fine Arts Department at NYU for ten
years and one-time professional medical illustrator, informs his
paintings with an almost hyper-realistic accuracy. This
combination of perennial wisdom and scientific exactitude, marks a
most fruitful marriage of ancient spiritual and modern analytic
worldviews.
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