Last night, Ali-Sun and I went to the Visionary Art LA show, hosted by visionary artist Alex Grey and his wife Allyson. Following an artist panel and a raw vegan meal, the electronica got thumping, artists manned their canvasses and the party went on until the wee hours…
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Tyler-
The whole event looks extraordinarily “kewl”.
Will you let us know when something similar happens again.
Sure thing, guess i can’t rightly post it on Ojai Events though.
Per an email request, the last photo is Saber, a rather infamous graffiti artist. If you look above his canvas, you can see Allyson Grey’s in-progress artwork from behind, Alex Grey just visible to the left and in the background is an Alex Grey tapestry on loan from the band Tool’s live performance.
Thanks for these glimpses of LA night life … how progressive that they served a raw vegan meal. That in itself is visionary!
Wish more Ojai events offered vegan food.
PS
This is the first time I connected the names Ali-Sun and Allyson!
When I first saw this Post I vaguely remembered hearing about Alex Grey back in the late 60’s or 70’s. Today I looked him up in Wikipedia and all sorts of memories came tumbling back. His biography and philosophy is so interesting ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Grey
“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.”
I spent Saturday evening at Glow, an all-night party on the Santa Monica pier featuring installation art and music by KCRW djs.
Cool concept, but I don’t know if they imagined the size of the crowd – truly overwhelming. Two features stood out for me: an orchestra in a ferris wheel (sadly hard to hear over the roller coaster, the bad 80s music, and Whack-a-Mole right nearby) and a telescope/EEG – put the EEG device on your head, look through the telescope at the light and crowd, and a light panel wrapped around the telescope displays an artistic rendering of your brain waves. The line for that was at least 30 people long, with each of them looking for about 5 minutes – I didn’t wait. But the idea was fabulous!
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