{"id":429357,"date":"2025-08-06T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=429357"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:51:00","slug":"red-grooms-ruckus-tugboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/red-grooms-ruckus-tugboat\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Grooms\u2019s 3D Tugboat Is a Chaotic, Comic Take on New York Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/prints-works-on-paper\/more-prints-works-on-paper\/red-grooms-ruckus-tugboat\/id-a_3005471\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat_Front-950x806.jpg\" alt=\"Red Groom, Ruckus Tugboat, 2006\" class=\"wp-image-430066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat_Front-950x806.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat_Front-412x350.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat_Front-120x102.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat_Front-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat_Front-1099x933.jpg 1099w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat_Front.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/prints-works-on-paper\/more-prints-works-on-paper\/red-grooms-ruckus-tugboat\/id-a_3005471\/\"><em>Ruckus Tugboat,<\/em> 2006, by Red Grooms<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever since moving to New York City, in 1957, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/red-grooms\/art\/\">Red Grooms<\/a> has been turning chaos into art. His 2006 three-dimensional lithograph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/prints-works-on-paper\/more-prints-works-on-paper\/red-grooms-ruckus-tugboat\/id-a_3005471\/\"><em>Ruckus Tugboat<\/em><\/a>, created with fine-art printer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/sharks-ink\/\">Shark\u2019s Ink<\/a>, is a prime example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Equal parts sculpture and print, satire and celebration, the piece features the<em> Lysiane<\/em>, a tugboat chugging through New York Harbor packed with Grooms\u2019s trademark cast of misfits and tiny dramas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a man overboard flailing in the water to a mob victim sinking below the surface to a shark lunging for a frightened fish, the scene captures the city\u2019s rowdy energy with comical grit and extraordinary detail.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/red-grooms\/art\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat-950x797.jpg\" alt=\"The back side of Red Grooms's Ruckus Tugboat, 2006, features a wacky cast of characters.\" class=\"wp-image-430069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat-950x797.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat-417x350.jpg 417w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat-120x101.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat-1113x933.jpg 1113w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Tugboat.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The flip side of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/prints-works-on-paper\/more-prints-works-on-paper\/red-grooms-ruckus-tugboat\/id-a_3005471\/\"><em>Ruckus Tugboat,<\/em> 2006, by Red Grooms<\/a> reveals a zany cast of characters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRed Grooms came to our studio in 2006 with a maquette that he had made with paper, glue and watercolor,\u201d recalls Roseanne Colachis, director of Shark\u2019s Ink. \u201cThis piece was then taken apart and laid out flat so that we could trace the individual parts and make a key lithographic plate.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Printmakers Bud Shark (he of the eponymous studio) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/evan-colbert\/\">Evan Colbert<\/a> pressed the lithograph from 12 aluminum plates. \u201cEach color was hand-drawn by the artist for the edition and after printing,\u201d says Colachis, who then cut, scored and folded the paper and placed the completed piece in a Plexiglas box. \u201cI&#8217;ve put together almost all of the 3D prints and have loved every minute of assembling them,\u201d she adds. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/black-white-photography\/jack-mitchell-artist-red-grooms-his-studio\/id-a_3912602\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Studio_1968_Jack_Mitchell-745x950.jpg\" alt=\"Red Grooms in his New York studio in 1968, photo by Jack Mitchell\" class=\"wp-image-430078\" style=\"width:745px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Studio_1968_Jack_Mitchell-745x950.jpg 745w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Studio_1968_Jack_Mitchell-274x350.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Studio_1968_Jack_Mitchell-94x120.jpg 94w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Studio_1968_Jack_Mitchell-768x979.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Studio_1968_Jack_Mitchell-1204x1536.jpg 1204w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Studio_1968_Jack_Mitchell-732x933.jpg 732w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_Grooms_Studio_1968_Jack_Mitchell.jpg 1351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Red Grooms poses in his New York studio in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/black-white-photography\/jack-mitchell-artist-red-grooms-his-studio\/id-a_3912602\/\">1968 photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/jack-mitchell\/art\/\">Jack Mitchell<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grooms has worked with Shark\u2019s Ink since 1981, collaborating on more than 50 prints, many of them sculptural, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/prints-works-on-paper\/more-prints-works-on-paper\/red-grooms-ruckus-taxi\/id-a_3053231\/\"><em>Ruckus Taxi<\/em><\/a> the following year. \u201cHe is one of my favorite artists,\u201d Colachis says. <em>Ruckus Tugboat<\/em>, produced in an edition of 45, reflects Grooms\u2019s inimitable wit and devotion to portraying the nuttiness of city life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The term <em>ruckus<\/em> has become shorthand for Grooms\u2019s unruly aesthetic and a recurrent theme for him over the past 50 years. It began with <em>Ruckus Rodeo<\/em> in 1975 and took full form with <em>Ruckus Manhattan,<\/em> his 1976 installation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/red-grooms-ninth-street-women\/\">Marlborough Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That 6,400-square-foot carnivalesque diorama, conceived and built with Mimi Gross and the art crew known as the Ruckus Construction Co., was a comic book almost come to life.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIG_E_2025_Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Manhattan_003_Paula_Abreu_Pita_PS22-General-Use-JPEG-950x673.jpg\" alt=\"A Staten Island Ferry sene from  \u201cRed Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from Ruckus Manhattan\u201d at the Brooklyn Museum.\" class=\"wp-image-430075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIG_E_2025_Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Manhattan_003_Paula_Abreu_Pita_PS22-General-Use-JPEG-950x673.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIG_E_2025_Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Manhattan_003_Paula_Abreu_Pita_PS22-General-Use-JPEG-494x350.jpg 494w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIG_E_2025_Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Manhattan_003_Paula_Abreu_Pita_PS22-General-Use-JPEG-120x85.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIG_E_2025_Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Manhattan_003_Paula_Abreu_Pita_PS22-General-Use-JPEG-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIG_E_2025_Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Manhattan_003_Paula_Abreu_Pita_PS22-General-Use-JPEG-1536x1087.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIG_E_2025_Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Manhattan_003_Paula_Abreu_Pita_PS22-General-Use-JPEG-1318x933.jpg 1318w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIG_E_2025_Red_Grooms_Ruckus_Manhattan_003_Paula_Abreu_Pita_PS22-General-Use-JPEG.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An installation view of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/ruckus-manhattan\">Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from <em>Ruckus Manhattan<\/em><\/a>,\u201d at the Brooklyn Museum. Photo by Paula Abreu Pita. \u00a9 Red Grooms \/ Mimi Gross \/ Artists Rights Society<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With its flaming downtown skyscrapers, Times Square sex shops and wacky cast of New Yorkers (including the Statue of Liberty in heels), the piece distilled 1970s Manhattan into an immersive caricature \u2014 sculpted, painted and smirking back at you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, the Brooklyn Museum is revisiting <em>Ruckus Manhattan<\/em> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/ruckus-manhattan\">Ruckus-centric show<\/a> marking New York\u2019s 400th anniversary (up through November 2). Among the highlights is <em>Dame of the Narrows<\/em>, a wild scene centering on a Staten Island Ferry that had a major role in the original installation and is in the museum\u2019s collection. Like <em>Ruckus Tugboat<\/em>, it\u2019s a maritime tribute to the city\u2019s surreal \u201970s-era grit, rendered with a wink and a poke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c \u2018Ruckus\u2019 comes from a slight disorder of things,\u201d Colachis says, understatedly. 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