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American, b. 1937
Charles Roger Grooms was born in 1937 in Nashville, Tennessee, a city that, with its lively honky-tonk scene and the theatricality of the historic Grand Ole Opry, would later influence much of his work. Nicknamed for his ginger hair, Red enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1955. A self-proclaimed “restless and undisciplined student,” Grooms spent the next few years moving between schools and cities, including the New School in New York, Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University) in Nashville, and Hans Hofmann’s summer school in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Frustrated with the academic track and anxious to enter the New York art scene, Grooms abandoned formal education to focus exclusively on creating art and securing exhibition opportunities in his Chelsea neighborhood. There, he found quick success and a supportive circle of artists that became close friends and collaborators.
From the start of his career, Grooms has worked in multiple media, from painting, printmaking, and sculpture, to installation art, filmmaking, and theatrical experiences known as “Happenings.” Much of his art blurs the boundaries between these different forms, such as his large-scale, carefully-crafted environments he calls “sculpto-pictoramas,” and smaller objects like Dalí Salad. In this example, Grooms combines silkscreened and lithographic elements with a wooden base and acrylic dome to create a three-dimensional portrait of the famous Surrealist artist.
Grooms is perhaps best known for his colorful and comedic commentary on the culture, politics, and figures associated with the American urban environment and art historical traditions. Relying on satire and caricature, Grooms’ art has paid homage to a wide range of artists including Rembrandt, Auguste Rodin, Thomas Eakins, and Benjamin West, as well as national icons like Thomas Jefferson and Chuck Berry. Grooms’ disparate output is so difficult to classify that he has been compared to the influential Dada artist, Marcel Duchamp. Like Duchamp, Grooms often deliberately confronts the art world establishment, noting in 1974 that “it’s good to have . . . something to go against.”
Despite his affinity for defying the mainstream, Grooms is routinely cited by scholars as one of the leading American artists of his generation and was honored with the National Academy of Design’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. The subject of a 1984 mid-career retrospective exhibition held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the artist’s work can be found in public collections across the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, as well as in many international museums.
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Artist: Red Grooms
Monograph with 3-D sculptural pop-up (Hand signed and numbered by Red Grooms)
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms
Redgrooms, 2004
Hardback monograph with 3-D sculptural pop-up (signed and numbered in red marker on the artist's designed book plate)
Signed and numbered 101/400 in red marker on the artist's designed book plate
13 × 10 × 1 1/2 inches
Makes a superb gift!
Lavishly illustrated with a pop-up/multiple taken out of the book with its signed & numbered label is often removed, exhibited under plexiglass, and sold separately for several thousand dollars. This fully pre-assembled pop-up with integral base at rear is a re-working of Grooms' iconic New York Taxi of 1986 - which in turn was based on his earlier giant Ruckus NY taxi sculpture...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Red Grooms More Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset, Board
Moonstruck
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Porcelain plate (Edition of 3000)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
1990s Contemporary Red Grooms More Art
Materials
Porcelain
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