![]() ![]() For five years, Alex worked in the Anatomy department at Harvard Medical School preparing cadavers for dissection while he studied the body on his own. The Grey couple continued to take “sacramental journeys” on LSD. At their meeting in 1975, an entheogenically induced mystical experience transformed his agnostic existentialism to a radical transcendentalism. At the Museum School, Alex met his life-long partner, the artist, Allyson Rymland Grey. Grey then moved to Boston to study with and work as studio assistant for conceptual artist, Jay Jaroslav, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1974-5. Grey dropped out of art school and painted billboards for Columbus Outdoor Advertising, 1973-4. ![]() Alex went to the Columbus College of Art and Design on full scholarship from 1971-3. The themes of death and transcendence weave throughout his artworks, from the earliest drawings to later performances, paintings and sculpture. Young Alex would collect insects and dead animals from the suburban neighborhood and bury them in the back yard. His father was a graphic designer and encouraged his son’s drawing ability. Alex Grey was born in Columbus, Ohio on Novem(Sagittarius), the middle child of a gentle middle-class couple. ![]()
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