Joe Mangrum (born February 10, 1969) is a multi-media installation and artist that is well known for large-scale colored sand paintings. He lives 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 many objects found and collected. His installation often includes forms such as mandalas, pyramids, maps, grids and mushroom clouds and Ouroboros.
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Early life and education
Joe Mangrum was born in Florissant, Missouri, near St. Louis. Louis. He started taking paint oil painting lessons when he was 8. At age 16 he won a trip to India, in an art competition sponsored by the Asian Community. His entry into the contest is a painting depicting a series of baskets representing his limited knowledge of India. This journey has sparked interest in travel and multicultural influences. Mangrum attended the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1991. The focus of his studies was on painting and photography, although after art school he began to expand his work to specific locations, environments and ephemeral installations.
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Sand painting
Joe Mangrum has created hundreds of sand paintings in the public spaces of New York City. Each large-scale sand painting is spontaneously created by pouring colored sand into several patterns for a day and often fifteen to twenty feet in diameter. He cites the influence of many sources in what he calls, "... organic symmetry in which the feeling of design is life stretched on the sidewalk... images may be intertwined like Celtic nodes or representing nature such as sea anemones, DNA strands or biomorphic forms, sometimes very psychedelic. "He also describes"... urban freestyle and combined with bright 'Pop Art' colors, fractal and circuit variations.Our painting is influenced by the abundant world of undersea creatures, carnivorous plants that emit electrical impulses , live mathematical amalgam and botanical geometry that give rise to cross-cultural metaphors... "He also cites influences such as Rangoli, Buddhist mandala, Navajo sand paintings, mosaics in Islamic art and rose windows in European cathedrals.
He has been commissioned to create special sand paintings for the Museum of Art and Design, FLAG Art Foundation, Corcoran Rotunda Gallery, Asian Society, United Nations School and Adelphi University. Mangrum also produces sand paintings in San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit and San Cristobal, Mexico.
Initial and California jobs
After graduating from the School of Art Institute of Chicago, Mangrum traveled for over four years in Europe and throughout the United States. Eventually he settled in Laguna Beach, California and began arranging floral and natural materials into installations in the public sphere. This often, circular form has been called mandala, though Mangrum has more recently been chosen to describe them as biomorphic or organic installations. His first installation at Laguna Beach came from a desire to draw attention to the upcoming San Joaquin Hills Toll Road (California State Route 73) in 1994. The road will split one of the last large open spaces in Orange County, California. The newly discovered activism encourages its determination to examine environmental issues in public art forums. He started making organic shapes at Main Beach Park, a public space in Laguna Beach. His artwork was swept by the Department of the Garden, so he kept making new pieces and they were relentlessly sweeping again. This resulted in a visit to the city council meeting by Mangrum. The council demanded that he provide a one million dollar insurance coverage. The story was lifted by L.A. Times and thus sparked further discussions about art, expression and the right to protest. Mangrum was invited to produce his first solo performance at San Francisco State University in 1995. This event marks the first use of found objects, auto parts and money in addition to their organic materials. It consists of five biomorphic forms on the ground with a wall painting in the binary code of the story of Lorax by Dr. Seuss, contained in the enlarged Mangrum thumbnail. After Mangrum acquired the insurance, he returned to the beach of Laguna and made an installation entitled "Creation, Capitalism and Corrective Surgery," and "Gema Corrective Surgery" based on his observations about life in Southern California.
Article L.A. The second time in 1995 drew the attention of art gallery expert Daniel Arvizu, who invited Mangrum to install a solo show in his gallery in Santa Ana, California. Mangrum created a short installation inspired by Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" using molasses (instead of oil) and orange slices in an interpretation of the oil industry's observations and "purgatory" environment in Orange County. Mangrum continued the use of Molasses in combination with wheat grass and piano parts in a group event entitled "The Embarrassment of Riches," at the Huntington Beach Art Center curated by Marilu Knode.
San Francisco
Mangrum took up residence in San Francisco in the mid-1990s after years of traveling and continues to make public artwork both spontaneously and commissioned by the city of San Francisco. He is assigned to two permanent terrazzo artworks that can be found on the opposite corner of Mission and 22 streets in San Francisco. In addition, a short installation entitled "Trans-mission 98", made at Justin Herman Plaza. This temporary installation consists of dismantling the artist's car and arranging it as a city landscape with organic soil elements at Justin Herman Plaza. A reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle hurriedly ran the license plate number and wrote the wrong article stating that a deal had taken place between town and Mangrum to redeem commission fees to spare some parking tickets. The article was taken by various papers and blogs including "News of the Weird." The controversy resulted in Ralph Guggenheim, chair of the visual arts committee at the Arts Commission, clarifying in a letter to the editor that "... the San Francisco Art Commission does not, and does not cut deals with artists." Mr. Mangrum, like any citizen, is responsible for pay for his parking ticket.It implies that the commission approves this job rather than paying for tickets is ridiculous. "
In 2005, in celebration of World Environment Day, Mangrum created Cloud Fungus 40 feet and 16 feet wide of live wheatgrass. The project grew for 2 weeks at various locations in San Francisco and contained 300 pounds of dry grain seeds. The cloud loomed over an artificial city landscape made up of industrial parts. The project title is "Detonation Earth" and installed at Red Ink Studios in San Francisco.
Mangrum continues to utilize organic elements such as wheat grass, flowers and palm leaves with automobile parts, bullets, engine wheels, and sand in large-scale mortal installations. He created a site-specific work for the SFMOMA Gallery at Fort Mason San Francisco's Modern Art Museum # SFMOMA Art Gallery Gallery at Fort Mason, Pioneer Conference, and M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. Mangrum also continues to produce three-dimensional installations in local galleries such as Urbis Artium, (now Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art), pop ups and festivals.
In addition, he set up an alternative warehouse space known as Facility 3 from 1997 to 2003, functioning as a versatile art studio and event space that hosts many theatrical performances and groups such as Shotgun Players and musicians such as Sean Hayes (musician), Jolie Holland, Extra Action Marching Band; various Burning Man and DJ events, including the late DJ Cheb i Sabbah and Lorin aka Bassnectar.
New York
In 2008, Mangrum moved to New York. He has installed a solo show entitled, "Impressions" at the Chi Contemporary Gallery (now Causey Contemporary) in Brooklyn, 2006. This solo show marks the appearance of sand paintings as a key feature in his work. He produced his second solo performance at Chi Contemporary in 2009, entitled "Chrysalis Stage." Mangrum started a series of more than 700 sand paintings in the public spaces of New York City in 2009 and continues today. The public is most likely to see these paintings periodically at Washington Square Park and Union Square, Manhattan. In 2010, he created a sand runway for designer Jen Kao during Fashion Week that made him Vanity Fair as a cartoon. Mangrum has appeared in various media and blogs. He regularly posts updates of his ongoing works directly on social media and his website. His sand-stained hand is inserted into the cover of New York Man (HONY), by photographer Brandon Stanton.
Awards
In 2003, Joe Mangrum won the 'Lorenzo il Magnifico' Florence Biennale # Award.27 Lorenzo il Magnifico.27 at the Florence Biennale in Italy.
Broadcast
After a brief appearance in 2012, where time lapse was made in Washington Square Park for "Word on the Street", Joe was a guest at Sesame Street in 2013 shown in the segment "People Around You with Murray and Ovejita, creating portrait of a pair of Muppets in the sand with the typical background of The Mona Lisa. He has also been interviewed for the PBS art program, Spark on KQED, 2006 and PBS, Chicago Tonight WTTW, 2013.
Festival
Joe Mangrum has designed and created sculptural installations and architectural pieces for the Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival, The Electric Daisy Carnival, The Mile High Music Festival and All Points West Music & amp; Arts Festival among many others.
References
External links
- artist website
- 2005 Podcast Interview with Joe Mangrum
- KQED SPARK Program
- Joe Mangrum on IMDb
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