Joe mangrum biography
- Joe Mangrum was.
- Joe Mangrum is an installation and multiple-medium artist who is particularly known for his large-scale colored sand paintings.
- Mangrum grew up Florissant, Missouri and later earned his degree in Fine Arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Joe Mangrum
b. 1969 Florissant MO
Education:
(BFA) The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Awards:
2003 Lorenzo De Medici Award Biennale Internazionale Dell’ Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
1998
Market Street Art In Transit, San Francisco Arts Commission
1991
Merit Scholarship, SAIC
1990 Dr. R. A. Koetting Prize, St. Louis Artists Guild
1987
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
1986
Portraits of India, Asia Society, New York
Residencies
2007
de Young Museum of San Francisco
Public Art
2008
Red Ink Flint, Flint River Project Flint, MI
2002
Muni Bus Stop 22nd @ Mission St. Funded by San Francisco Arts Commission
1998
“Trans-mission Temporary Project Funded by San Francisco Arts Commission
Solo Shows
2006
Chi Contemporary Fine Art Brooklyn NY
2005
“Urbis Ouroboros” Wolfe Contemporary Art San Francisco Ca
1997
"Virus" San Francisco Ca
1996
“Garden of Earthly Delights”, Daniel Arvizu Gallery, Santa Ana Ca
“Echoes of Corrective Surgery” Laguna Beach Ca.
1995
“Creation, Capitalism and Correcti
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Joe Mangrum
American artist
Joe Mangrum (born February 10, 1969) is an installation and multiple-medium artist who is particularly known for his large-scale colored sand paintings. He resides in New York City. Using a wide spectrum of components, his work often includes organic materials, such as flowers, food and sand, in addition to deconstructed computer parts, auto-parts and a multitude of found and collected objects. His installations often include mandala-like forms, pyramids, maps, grids and mushroom clouds and the Ouroboros.
Early life and education
Joe Mangrum was born in Florissant, Missouri, near St. Louis. He started taking oil painting lessons when he was 8.[1] At age 16 he won a trip to India, in an art competition sponsored by the Asia Society.[2] His entry in the contest was a painting which portrayed a series of baskets representing his limited knowledge of India. The trip sparked an interest in travel and multicultural influences. Mangrum attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and received his Bachelor of F
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Bio
Joe Mangrum’s sand paintings and multiple medium installations explore issues of the urban grid, environmentalism and its effects on the collective psyche. He has created a series of over a thousand intricate sand paintings in public and private spaces as well as a body of permanent sand paintings on canvas and carved wood. He has also created large scale, multi-material installations in large spaces. His work is inspired by ancient traditions and synced up with a rhythm of urban free-style animation, combined with bright “Pop Art” colors. His paintings are influenced by an abundant world of undersea creatures, botanicals and diverse forms of cross-cultural metaphors with a mash up of personal symbols. His technique with sand employs a graffiti like parallel of close to the ground sharp lines to a wide “spray” from higher up of diffused effects in alternating layers. Mangrum is based in New York City and has traveled with his work internationally.
He kicked off 2018 with a commission by Prabal Gurung for the Spring Fashion Week runwa
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