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Alex Grey, an icon of visionary art, has exhibited his work worldwide, from New York City to Paris to Brazil and Los Angeles. From 1979–1989 Grey created a unique series of 21 life-sized paintings, the Sacred Mirrors, to examine in detail the physical and metaphysical anatomy of an individual. It was during this period of work on the Sacred Mirrors 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. The paintings were on display in the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York City from 2003–2008 and will be on display again in 2010 in a new location, a 40-acre interfaith retreat center Alex Grey and his wife Allyson are creating in Wappinger, New York, 65 miles north of New York City.

Mystical geometry and a celebration of color is found in the paintings of Allyson Grey. Her works employ a measured grid that coalesce into crystalline images of order or plunge the viewer into a chaotic universe of deconstruction. The mosaic-like scheme of the mandalic paintings relate them to Tantric art and Jain cosmological diagrams, while the overlapping disorder of the Chaos paintings relate to fractal patterns and the science of chaos dynamics.