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CHARLES MINGUS III
Before Charles left California at seventeen to pursue Art and other interests, he won a scholarship
in Art, to the Chouinard Art Engineering Design Institute. He also studied Art at Pasadena City College
with the Master Calligrapher, Shiro  Ikegauwa.
Having painted both day and night throughout the years on the West Coast,
interrupted only by an acting job 'Skin Of Our Teeth' at the Mission
Theater with Sam Shepard, he made his move to New York. Shepard, the
playwright, actor and musician, was a high-school friend who had
transplanted to New York as well, and they roomed together as artists,
collaborating on breakthrough theater projects.
Three members of the New York Six Gallery on St. Marks Place ( Macs Mc
Aree, Lucio Pozzi
and Arnie Magneson ) discovered Charles and gave him his first one-man
show, consisting of
Neo-Surrealist canvases, watercolor and electro-kenetic assemblage.
Overflowing crowds of
enthusiastic poets,critics and artists attended the show opening.
In 1968 Charles' painting , "One Second in the Mind of His Honor , Mayor
D.," a Pop cartoon
of exploded brains and guts, was chosen for the "Chicago Show" at the
Richard Feigen Gallery in Chicago .
During the time of the Poor Peoples' Campaign in Washington, D.C.,
Charles was working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference .
Charles conceived and initiated a benefit auction sale exhibition to
honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., by persuading Rene d'Hainoncourt,
director of MoMA at the time, with the support and assistance of Messrs.
Michael Findlay , Carroll Janis and Stanley Levenson of SCLC. He
organized a panel of noted American authors, James Baldwin , Allan
Ginsburg , Ralph Ellison, Robert Penn Warren and Amiri Imamu Baraka , and
produced the subsequent film, "A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1969." It was shot by Simon Nucturne at MoMA, and aired in association
with Don Harper,editor,and  Kit Lukas, executive producer at Channel 13.
During the late 1960s and into the 1970s Charles continued to paint as
well as write plays. The play, "Cheap Trick," was directed by Lee Kissman
,and premiered in 1970 at La Mama ETC. to a standing-room-only audience
for its entire run . Ellen Stewart said, "Never before or ever since have
I seen such crowds coming to see any play; masses in the streets...and
around the block like it was the movies." In 1971 "Out Of The Death
Cart", which Charles also directed,
was produced by Joseph Papp at the Public Theater . The musical play "The
Atlantic Crossing" was the premiere production at Theater for the New
City .
In 1972, MoMA commissioned Charles' painting, "Time Seed." It was
featured as the premium card of the year in their Christmas catalogue.
Charles received additional exposure at MoMA's penthouse exhibition
curated by Alexandra Anderson and mounted by the Art Lending Service .
Through his association with Kurt Dempster's Ensemble Studio Theater in
the mid-seventies, Charles received a playwright-in-residence at Johnson
State College in Vermont with John Ford Noonan. During the last twenty
years, many of his theatrical pieces have been performed by Dadanewyork,
and The Living Theatre in NYC. Additionally, The Living Theatre has
performed Charles' work on tour in Europe.
Influenced by his prior association with Jonas Mekas' Film Makers
Cinematheque, Charles renewed an interest in documentary film making. In
1980, he produced a film for the United Church of Christ on the
"Wilmington Ten," featuring Rev. Ben Chaves with the New York video
artist Cary Fisher .
"I like TV and take almost any opportunity to work with it.  I even put
it in my plays, paintings and sculptures. In 1980, Charles also developed
"Inscape," a video animated computer parody of his mandala watercolor
paintings, also creating the musical score.
His work has appeared on book jackets and album covers, and Charles has
also enjoyed numerous group and solo exhibitions , including Allan Stone
Gallery in New York City . His watercolors were the subject of a lecture
by Mr. Stone at Adolphus Gustavus College in Minnesota and at Brown
University in Providence, Rhode Island .The Museum of Natural History:
The Stereoscopic Society Show,  Behind the Green Door Gallery, Theater
for the New City Gallery, A.I.R., and the State University of New York,
Brooklyn Gallery all recently featured Charles' artwork." Additionally,
his work has toured Japan.
Charles' play , "Always On" a continuing work in progress , was
commissioned by and performed at the Lee Strassberg Institute in New York
as a tribute to Lee Strassberg.
His experimentation in the visual arts, marrying technology and the paint
brush...has given birth to a profound new direction for the artist. One
which will absolutely push the viewer outside of their proverbial box.



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M a n d a l a s  Information for collectors Mandala means "circle" in Sanskrit  
Mandalas sometimes symbolize the universe as well as the natural perfection and 
harmony in nature. Tibetan monks create sand mandalas symbolizing the rsidence
of Enlightened Beings in order to help people imagine the vast and profound 
 enlightened state. They are also used as meditational aids. 
  
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Mandalas 2 Watercolor painted on clay stock  

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