Joe Mangrum’s Temporary Sand Paintings Are Pure, Beautiful Magic –
Artist Joe Mangrum has creating temporary artworks with sacks of colored sand since 2006. He’s made short-lived masterpieces all over the world, on streets and inside contemporary museums and galleries. He has completed nearly 1000 paintings, and here are some of his best.
Discomadusae, in Corcoran Gallery, Washinton DC, 2012
Asynchronous Syntropy, at Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, 2012
A work made during Art Basel 2012 in Miami Beach, Florida
540 W Madison, Chicago, Illinois, June 2013
Miami, 2014
An artwork made during Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, UAE, 2014
Shifting DNA, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida 2014
Sand Painting #2, for Doe Museum, Zuidlaren, Netherlands, 2015
Sand Painting #4, for the Doe Museum in Zuidlaren, Netherlands, June 2015
Sand Painting #8, for the Doe Museum in Zuidlaren, Netherlands, 2015
Sand Painting #6, for the Doe Museum, Zuidlaren, Netherlands, 2015