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Steve Sangapore
"Moab Man", contemporary, modern, mixed media, brown, petroglyph, sculpture

2022

About the Item

Steve Sangapore’s “Moab Man” is a 30 x 24 x 2 inch mixed media wall-hung sculpture from his Modern Icon series. The mixed media petroglyph is signed bottom right. After Sangapore's experience at the Utah petroglyph sites and further researching the area’s archaic peoples that created them, he was inspired to create one for his current series of work: Modern Icon. One particularly striking petroglyph in the Southern Utah area that dates to the first millennium CE is what has informally come to be known as Moab Man. This enigmatic image is an anthropomorphic being which has no known representation or concrete meaning. Daily life and matters of the spiritual are frequently found to be the subjects of petroglyph art in the area, and one might infer a spiritualistic meaning given that the features and characteristics of Moab Man seem far from ordinary. Sangapore's inspiration coalesced into a wall-hung, sculptural replica of the famous Moab Man but with a new, conceptual element. In addition to replicating the process of petroglyph creation (embedding a recessed image into a hard surface by picking and carving), he added two mirrors where one could assume a pair of eyes might otherwise be. Archaic art is part of the human story and reflects back to us something deep and curious about ourselves. Like other works in this series, placing the viewer inside the eyes of the petroglyph acts as a catalyst for experiencing this connection. Steve Sangapore is a contemporary oil painter and mixed media sculptor. Using vastly different stylistic approaches of composition, medium and structure throughout various series, his work can be described at once as aesthetically traditional and conceptually contemporary. His work is intellectually exploratory with a gravitation toward religion, science and the human condition. Steve Sangapore’s work has been exhibited in galleries and leading art fairs nationally and has been included in a variety of publications including Art Business News and The Boston Globe. Sangapore is represented by Fountain Street Gallery in Boston, MA.
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    2022
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    Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Natick, MA
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    Seller: Sangapore_Moab Man1stDibs: LU500312215332
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