Visonary Artist's Alex and Allsyon Grey will present workshops on Maui, at the Mystic Garden Party event Feb 12-15, and will also hold a Drawing in Paradise - Retreat Feb 19-21, 2009.

Mystic Garden Party - Workshop

The Maui Mystic Garden Party is held on Maui, February 12-15, 2009 at Camp Keanae. The event combines inspired and conscious music along with workshops, art & speakers to "To advocate healthy culture & community through music, arts & education...". The Alex and Allyson Grey workshop will be held Saturday Feb 1, 2009 at 1:30 pm. Tickets & more info for the Mystic Garden Party are available at www.mysticgardenparty.com or call 888-966-2568

Drawing in Paradise - Retreat

Visionary artists Alex Grey and Allyson Grey will lead a three-day workshop retreat on Maui at Camp Maluhia, February 19-21, 2009. This three-day workshop, primarily focused on drawing, is open to all levels of artistc ability. The workshops will include vision practices that facilitate glimpses of divine imagination, chakra drawing with yogic models, inner self-portraiture, studies in sacred geometry, and slide show talks on the history of visionary and spiritual art. Please bring your own art supplies, sketch pads, colored pencils, watercolors or favorite medium of your choice.

The retreat offers a unique opportunity to immerse ones self in creativity realm of these acclaimed artists, at one of the most beautiful places in the world. The days will start with Yoga and movement classes, creating all day, and descend into night with sacred groves from the CoSM crew, guest DJ's and musicians. Participants will experience beautiful panoramic ocean views, vision quest walks to a waterfall close by, and a large swimming pool with night time swimming available. Camp Maluhia is located 20 minutes from the airport. The retreat includes raw and organic meals, and 2 nights accommodations. Cabin sleeping for all. Space is limited to 50 registrants. Workshop fee's are $495 and includes meals & 2 nights lodging. A special discounts of $395 is available for Mystic Garden Party attendees.

More info & Registration Contact: Corrine Feldman (808) 357-4400 • coryglory@yahoo.com

Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953) is an American artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. Grey is a Vajrayana practitioner. His oeuvre spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, visionary art, and painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute. 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. He and his wife Allyson Grey are the co-founders of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, a non-profit institution supporting Visionary Culture in New York City.

Grey’s paintings can be described as a blend of sacred, visionary art and postmodern art. He is best known for his paintings of glowing anatomical human bodies, images that “x-ray” the multiple layers of reality. His art is a complex integration of body, mind, soul, and spirit.

The Sacred Mirrors, a life-sized series of 21 paintings, took 10 years to complete, and examines in detail the physical and metaphysical anatomy of the individual. "The inner body is meticulously rendered - not just anatomically precise but crystalline in its clarity" . Many of his paintings include detailed representations of the skeleton, nervous system, cardiovascular system, and lymphatic system. Grey applies this multidimensional perspective to paint the universal human experience. His figures are shown in positions such as praying, kissing, copulating, pregnancy, birth and dying. His work incorporates many religious symbols, including auras, chakras, and iconsgeometric shapes and tessellations in natural, industrial, and multicultural situations. Grey’s paintings are permeated with an intense and subtle light that is rare in art history. “It is the light that is sublime in Grey’s oeuvre - which is the most important innovation in religious light since the Baroque - and that makes the mundane beings in them seem sublime, in every realistic detail of their exquisite being” 

Grey has also made his own contribution to the philosophy of art in his book The Mission of Art (1998). Therein, he promotes the possibility of the mystical potential of art: he argues that the process of artistic creation can (and should) play a role in the enlightenment of the artist. For him, the process of artistic creation holds the potential of transcending the limitations of the mind and more fully expressing the divine spirit. He also believes that art can induce within the viewer an elevated state wherein spiritual states of being are attained.

In an interview with Ken Wilber for Integral Naked, Grey described an experience of the shared hallucination between him and his wife, which led him to believe in spirituality and spiritual practice.

Alex Grey website: www.AlexGrey.com

More on Alex Grey at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Grey

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