Joe Mangrum

Joe Mangrum was born in Florissant, Missouri February 10th 1969 attended School of the Art Institute of Chicago BFA 1991. After almost 15 years of painting in oils, Joe found his passion in using objects in his art in the years after art school.

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Florissant - Missouri - February 10th - 1969 - School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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His first installations were done in the small beach community of Laguna Beach California in 1994. He creates a dialogue of objects with found flora to discarded machine and technological parts. He attended the Florence Biennale in 2003 where received the prestigious Lorenzo de Medici award in ?New Media?, for his piece titled, ?Fragile?

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In 2005 in celebration for World Environment Day held in San Francisco, Joe created a 40ft tall and 16ft wide Mushroom Cloud of live wheatgrass. The project was grown over a 2 week period in various locations in San Francisco and contained 300lbs 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 Ca.

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Joe has created installations for over 11 years and has a forthcoming book of installation documents to be released fall 2005

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