On exhibit at MicroCoSM Gallery are the works of Allyson Grey, co-founder of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. 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 oil 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.

The inspiration for this focus came during a psychedelic journey in 1976. Allyson describes the event: "As I lay meditating next to Alex, I could see that our bodies had become infinite strands of light that were both a fountain and a drain, simultaneously individual and distinct, yet connected to all nodes in the network, blowing and sucking pure energy in an infinite field of confluent effluences. The energy was love, the unifying force. Witness to a revelation of the grid upon which the fabric of our material reality is draped, both of our art was forever changed." A description of the Hindu Jewel Net of Indra, relates strongly to this experience. In the abode of Indra, God of Space, a net stretches infinitely in all directions, and at every intersection of the net there is a jewel so highly polished and perfect that it reflects every other jewel in the net. A diptych oil painting entitled "Jewel Net of Indra", included in this exhibition, is Allyson's most reproduced work of art.

This exhibition at MicroCoSM Gallery includes paintings from the past ten years. Allyson's solo exhibitions in NYC include Stux Gallery, O.K. Harris Gallery, The Clocktower, with inclusion in exhibitions at White Columns, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The artist is credited with numerous large scale permanent public commissions and inclusion in dozens of corporations and private collections. An artist and writer all her life, Allyson received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Tufts University. She has edited dozens of articles, journals and books, including those authored by Alex Grey, with whom she has been a constant companion and collaborator for over thirty years. Grey divides her energies between her own paintings, work for the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, the active career of her husband, Alex Grey, and the successful acting career of their daughter, Zena Grey.

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