Red Grooms
Red Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States on June 7th, 1937 and is the Pop Artist. At the age of 86, Red Grooms biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art sculptures depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life.
When he first started out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann, he was given the nickname "Red."
Background and education
During the Great Depression, Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then at Peabody College in Nashville. In 1956, Grooms migrated to New York City to enroll at the New School for Social Research. In Provincetown, Massachusetts, Grooms attended a summer session at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts a year ago. There, he encountered experimental animation pioneer Yvonne Andersen, with whom he collaborated on several short films.
Red Grooms belongs to a generation of artists who, in G. R. Swenson's words, "took the world too serious not to be amused by it." "At times, Grooms' humour has an absurdist streak, brimming with zealous enthusiasm and preposterous puns of the Marx Brothers," Judith Stein writes. He has a comedic sense with Bob and Ray, whose straight-man/funny-man teamwork defies everyday life's mundane routines. Grooms follows in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, who were canny commentators on the human condition, as an empiricist with a keen political sense and a keen recall of visual truths.
Peter Schjeldahl compared Grooms to Marcel Duchamp in 1969 because both represented "one man's movement is visible to everybody."
Personal life
Grooms now lives and works in Lower Manhattan, where he has lived and worked in Lower Manhattan at the intersection of Tribeca and Chinatown, where he has lived for almost 40 years. Saskia Grooms, his one daughter, is his own.
Career
Grooms, Yvonne Andersen, and Lester Johnson all painted twelve-foot by twelve-foot panels, which they erected with telephone poles on a parking lot adjacent to an amusement park in Salisbury, Massachusetts.
The City Gallery in Grooms' second-floor loft in the Flatiron District was inspired by artist-run spaces, such as New York's Hansa Gallery and Phoenix, and Provincetown's Sun Gallery, Grooms, and painter Jay Milder. When Phoenix refused to welcome Claes Oldenburg, Grooms and Milder, the former mayor of Phoenix, as well as Jim Dine's, opened Oldenberg's first New York exhibition. Stephen Durkee, Mimi Gross, Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, and Alex Katz were among the other artists on view at City Gallery. "We were responding to Tenth Street," Grooms recalls. Tenth Street was kind of like SoHo now in 1958 and 1959, and it was grabbing all the city's attention. We were just kids in our twenties, and we had a knack for attracting people to our openings.
Grooms made several "goodbyes" during the 1950s and early 1960s. Between December 4 and 11, 1959, the best known was The Burning Building, which was staged at his studio (dubbed "The Delancey Street Museum" for the occasion) on the Lower East Side of New York's Lower East Side.
"Grooms' early film Shoot the Moon (1962) was inspired by George Méliès' 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, and the celebrants seen by Edwin Denby, Alex Katz, and Grooms' "Second library books to make confetti." Some Grooms films include: The Big Sneeze (1962), a Rudy Burckhardt-directed comedy starring Mimi Gross; Fat Feet (1966), a black-and-white animation starring Mimi Gross; Man Walking Up (1984), a gritty film that premieres a new generation of newsreels; and a Mr. Retune (1968) a black and white animation based on Mimi Gross' 1972 live performance; Mr. Ruck starring his son'
Today, Grooms is known as the pioneer of site-specific sculpture and installation art. City of Chicago (1967), a small, walk-through "sculpto-pictoria," features sky-scraper-proportioned sculptures of Mayor Daley and Hugh Hefner, as well as fan-dancer Sally Rand, as a sound track featuring gunshots and burlesque music. In several three-dimensional vistas of Chicago's most prominent buildings, Grooms' genius for rendering the intricate details of architectural ornamentation is particularly evident. His extraordinary ability to portray a sense of place with a keen attention to detail is evident here and in many other cityscapes created by Grooms.
Ruckus Manhattan (1975), another sculpto-pictorama, exemplifies the mixed-media installations that would be his signature style. These vibrant three-dimensional works of art merged painting and sculpture to create immersive works of art that encouraged viewer interaction. The pieces were often packed with vibrant, cartoon-like characters from many walks of life. In 1979, Anderson Gallery's parody The Discount Store was on view at the Anderson Gallery in Vancouver. One of his main themes is the use of painting people, who are often using other artists or their styles to express his admiration for their work.
William Penn Shaking Hands with the Indians (1967), based on a similar titled painting by Benjamin West, Grooms commented, "I did [the work] more because of Mr Benjamin West than Mr. Penn." Benjamin West is a hero of American Art. ... As I recall, he created this magnificent tableau for The Treaty on his estate using actors from a touring Shakespeare company Then he had an easel installed in the basket of a hot air balloon tethering at 60 feet, and his wife carried him to him in six days with the help of sandwiches and birch beer. This is exemplary American conduct, to me."
The City of Chicago (1967) and Ruckus Manhattan (1975), two of Grooms' two most prominent buildings, were extremely popular with the public. Mimi Gross, the artist's then-wife, collaborated on these works. He appeared in Mike Kuchar's Secret of Wendel Samson (1966), which tells the tale of a closeted gay artist torn between two couples. In the 1990s, the Grooms returned to Tennessee, creating likenesses of 36 individuals from Nashville history for the Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel (1998).
When it was unveiled in Denver in 1982, Grooms' sculpture The Shootout, which depicts a cowboy and an Indian shooting at one another, attracted a lot of protests by Native American protesters. After demonstrators threatened to deface the sculpture, protesters stormed it, two protesters were evicted from two downtown Denver locations. In 1983, the sculpture was moved to the Denver Art Museum's grounds and now stands on the museum's roof. "Denver is beginning to rival Grumpsville, Tennessee, as one of the best sourpuss towns," Grooms said.
Grooms is also known for his prolific printmaking, in addition to painting and sculpture. He has experimented with a variety of methods, including woodblock prints, spray-painted stencils, soft-ground etchings, and three-dimensional lithograph models.
Sam, a portrait of Sam Reily who appeared in Fat Feet, and Gretchen's Fruit paved the way for several masterpieces of paper sculpture, as well as a tour-de-force still life. In 1979, Grooms spent a week at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he first started working in bronze. Grooms told Grace Glueck that the various western and football themes made in metal, "It looks like my normal stuff, but it's for the ages." . .. It's been found that working with less durable products is quicker." Lumberjack (1977–1984), a heroic woodsman Red's gift to artist Neil Welliver, demonstrates his factory with the lost-wax technique of casting.