Joe Mangrum

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joe Mangrum
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Feb 10, 1969(1969-02-10)
Age	55
Birthplace	Florissant
Country	United States
Birth City	Missouri
Horoscope	Aquarius

Joe Mangrum Biography

Joe Mangrum is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on February 10, 1969 in Florissant, Missouri, United States. Joe Mangrum (born February 10 1969) is an installation artist and multi-medium artist, who is well-known for his large-scale color Sand paintings. Joe Mangrum is a resident of New York City. With a broad range of materials his work typically includes organic materials such as flowers and food items, along with deconstructed computer parts, auto-parts , and numerous discovered and collected objects. His work often includes mandala-like shapes such as grids, pyramids and maps and mushroom clouds as well as the Ouroboros.

Another L.A. Times article in 1995 caught the attention of the art gallerist Daniel Arvizu, who invited Mangrum to create an exhibition of his own at Arvizu’s gallery located situated in Santa Ana, California. Mangrum developed an ephemeral art installation that was influenced to Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” employing Molasses (as an alternative to oil) as well as orange slices for an interpretation of his observations about petroleum industry, as well as the environmental “purgatories” in Orange County. Mangrum continued to use Molasses together alongside wheatgrass and piano pieces in a group exhibition titled “The Embarrassment of Riches,” at the Huntington Beach Art Center curated by Marilu Knode.

In 2005, in celebration of World Environment Day, Mangrum created a 40 ft tall and 16 ft wide Mushroom Cloud of live wheatgrass. The project was grown over a 2-week period in various locations in San Francisco and contained 300 lbs of dry wheatgrass seed. The cloud towered over an artificial cityscape made from industrial parts. The title of the project was “Detonation Earth” and was installed at Red Ink Studios in San Francisco.

In 2008, Mangrum moved to New York. He had installed a solo show titled, “Impressions” at Chi Contemporary Gallery (now Causey Contemporary) in Brooklyn, 2006. This solo show marked the emergence of sand painting as a primary feature in his work. He produced a second solo show at Chi Contemporary in 2009, titled “Chrysalis Stage.” Mangrum began his series of over 700 sand paintings in public spaces of New York City in 2009 and continues currently. The public is most likely to view these paintings periodically in Washington Square Park and Union Square, Manhattan. In 2010, he created a sand runway for designer Jen Kao during Fashion Week which landed him Vanity Fair as a cartoon. Mangrum has appeared on multiple media outlets and blogs. He regularly posts updates of his works in progress live on social media and his website. His sand-stained hands were included on the cover of Humans of New York (HONY), by photographer, Brandon Stanton.

After graduation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mangrum was on the move for four years throughout Europe as well as throughout all of the United States. He eventually moved to Laguna Beach, California and began to design natural and floral materials into public areas. These forms are typically circular and are referred to as mandalas however Mangrum has lately opted to call them organic or biomorphic installations. His initial works at Laguna Beach stemmed from a desire to bring attention to the imminent San Joaquin Hills Toll Road(California State Route 73) in 1994. The road would cut through one of the most important open green areas within Orange County, California. The newfound activism of his was the catalyst for his decision to investigate environmental issues within the context that is public art. He began creating organic shapes at Main Beach Park, a public space located in Laguna Beach. His work was taken into The Parks Department, so he created new works and was taken over again. The incident led to a visit to a council meeting with Mangrum. The council requested that he pay for one million dollars in liability insurance. The story was covered from The L.A. Times and thereby brought about further debates about the art of expression, its meaning and the right to express it. Mangrum received an invitation to stage his first solo exhibit in San Francisco State University in 1995 . This was the first time he used found objects such as auto parts, money and even cash as well as the organic materials he uses. The show consisted of five biomorphic forms that were placed on the ground, accompanied by a wall mural with the binary code of the tale of Lorax written by Doctor. Seuss, contained in the form of a larger image of the thumbprint Mangrum left. When Mangrum’s insurance was purchased and returned to Laguna beach to create sculptures that were titled “Creation, Capitalism and Corrective Surgery,” and “Echoes of Corrective Surgery” inspired by his observations of the life of Southern California.

Joe Mangrum Net Worth

Joe Mangrum is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joe Mangrum 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mangrum moved to San Francisco in the mid-1990s after a long period of travel and continued to create public art, both in the spontaneity of his work and commissions from San Francisco’s city officials. San Francisco. Mangrum was selected for two permanent terrazzo works located at opposite corners of Mission and 22nd streets in San Francisco. A temporary installation, titled ” Trans-mission 98″, was designed on Justin Herman Plaza. The installation was temporary and consisted of removing the artist’s automobile and rearranging it in a cityscape, using organic elements of sod at Justin Herman Plaza. The reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle hastily ran the license plate number for the car and then wrote an inaccurate article saying that a contract was struck by the city with Mangrum to trade his commission in exchange for the absolution of several parking tickets. The story was picked up by a variety of publications and blogs such as “News of the Weird.” The controversy led to Ralph Guggenheim, the chair of the committee on visual arts within the Art Commission, clarifying in an open letter in an email to the paper the fact that “…The San Francisco Art Commission did not and never has cut any agreements with artists. It is true that Mr. Mangrum, like any citizen, is accountable for the cost of his parking tickets. The notion that the commission endorsed the work, but not paying the tickets is ridiculous.”

Joe Mangrum was born in Florissant, Missouri, near St. Louis. He began his lessons in oil painting at age eight. When he was 16, He was awarded the opportunity to go to India as part of an art competition run by the Asia Society. His entry was a painting that depicted the baskets that represented his lack of knowledge about India. The trip inspired him to pursue an fascination for travel and multi-cultural influences. Mangrum was a student at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and graduated with a bachelor in Fine Arts diploma in the year 1991. The focus of his studies was on photography and painting but after his art school, Mangrum started to broaden his work into site-specific installation that was ephemeral and environmental.

Additionally, he founded an alternative warehouse space known as Facility 3 from 1997 to 2003, which functioned as a multi-use art studio and event space that hosted many performers and theatrical groups like 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.

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