Area 51 Presents: The 4th Annual Visionary Arts Fair w/ Alex and Allyson Grey

Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Tix: $35 for G.A. // $75 for VIP

✦ ✧ LIVE MUSICIANS & DJS! ✧ INCLUDING: DrFameus of The Disco Bisquits, David Starfire Music and more!

✦ ✧ Live Painters ✧
Alex Grey
Alex Grey 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 body of work 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.

Grey’s unique series of 21 life-sized paintings, the Sacred Mirrors, take the viewer on a journey toward their own divine nature by examining, in detail, the body, mind, and spirit. The Sacred Mirrors, present the physical and subtle anatomy of an individual in the context of cosmic, biological and technological evolution. Begun in 1979, the series took a period of ten years to complete. It was during this period that he developed his depictions of the human body that “x-ray” the multiple layers of reality, and reveal the interplay of anatomical and spiritual forces. After painting the Sacred Mirrors, he applied this multidimensional perspective to such archetypal human experiences as praying, meditation, kissing, copulating, pregnancy, birth, nursing and dying. Grey’s recent work has explored the subject of consciousness from the perspective of “universal beings” whose bodies are grids of fire, eyes and infinite galactic swirls.

Allyson Grey
The symbol system in the paintings of Allyson Grey represent a world view comprised of chaos, order and secret writing. For thirty years, Allyson has expressed in her paintings an essentialized world view consisting of three root components: chaos, order and secret writing. Chaos in these paintings symbolizes the material world where distinctions and entropy exist in all systems. Order in the work suggests the bliss realms one might experience in transcendental states of mystic unity sometimes called Nirvana, heaven, or the infinite Divine. Grey’s secret writing is comprised of twenty unpronounceable letters, corresponding to the nameless presence, existent in all sacred writing, the spirit imbedded in communication that cannot be reduced to concepts.
These paintings of tens of thousands of labor intensively painted spectral squares and a mystery language point to paradoxes of particles and waves, cells and systems, entropy and inter-reflectivity, meaning and the ineffable.

* * * * * * * * * Vision Labs * * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * Visionary Artwork of Krystleyez * * * * * *

* * * * * Neon Armour BodyPainting * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * Roberto Hernendez * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * Emily Kell * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * John Gay * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * Keith Prossick * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * GalaxC Girl * * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * Stephen Wells * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * Andy Reed * * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * Sean Curtis -Graffiti Artist * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * Ariel Esterline * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * Nicho Spectrum * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * Dave McDermott * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * Ashton Hill * * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * Blais Bellenoit * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * Sarah Cat Tracy * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * Xander Alexander * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * Bonnie Goodson * * * * * * * * * *

LIVE CANVAS & BODY PAINTERS!

✦ ✧Music By: ✧

* * DrFAMEUS of the DISCO BISCUITS * * *

* * * * * * * * David Starfire Music * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * Sugar Kayne * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * * Mindilixir * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * * Skymatic * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * Higher Learning * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * * * Medisin * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * * * * Ployd * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * * * Quetzatl * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * * * Citron * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * ElectroChemical * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * *Antandra aka DJ Story * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * * Tem Noon * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * * Wezooga * * * * * * * * * * *

✦ KRI & The T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi Family ✦

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Date/Time
Date(s) - 10.18.2014 - 10.19.2014
10:00 pm - 2:00 am

Location
New Mountain Asheville