TO+NIGHT on the O+ Radio Hour at 8pm on Radio Kingston: Aimee Gardner will be talking with Joe Mangrum about the current art and technology exhibit at Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), as well as his work as an artist.
Joe Mangrum’s sand paintings and multi-material installations explore issues of the urban grid, environmentalism and its effects on the collective psyche. He has developed a unique visual language tying together cultural patterns with those found in nature, science and technology to create living breathing forms that entangle their surroundings. He has created a series of over a thousand intricate sand paintings in public and private spaces as well as a body of permanent sand paintings on canvas and carved wood. His work is inspired by ancient traditions and synced with a rhythm of urban free-style animation, combined with bright “Pop Art” colors. His paintings are influenced by an abundant world of undersea creatures, botanicals and geometric forms of cross-cultural metaphors, representing a living mathematical amalgam. His technique with sand employs a graffiti like parallel of close to the ground sharp lines to a wide “spray” from higher up of diffused effects in alternating layers. Joe is now based in Kingston and was a festival alumni in 2019.
In addition to this great conversation, we will hear music from Flight of the Conchords!!, Janelle Monae, Gregory Stovetop, Sam Kogon, MERIDIAN BROTHERS and Radiohead.
