About Joe Mangrum
Joe Mangrum 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. Joe Mangrum has created hundreds of sand paintings in public spaces of New York City. Mangrum was invited to produce his first solo show at San Francisco State University in 1995. At age 16 he won a trip to India, in an art competition sponsored by the Asia Society. Each large scale sand painting is spontaneously created by pouring colored sand into multiple patterns over the course of a day and is often fifteen to twenty feet in diameter.
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