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Biography of Red GroomsName: Red GroomsBirth Date: June, 1937 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: artist, sculptor Red Grooms Red Grooms (born 1937) was an American artist best known for his large scale, intensely colored, environmental sculptural pieces made of wire, acrylic, and fabric. These scenes typically capture figures engaged in places and activities characteristic of the United States, presenting a humorous and/or satirical view of contemporary life.Red Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in June 1937. He attended Peabody College in Nashville, the New School for Social Research in New York City, the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, and the Hans Hoffmann School. In 1961 he married Mimi Gross, who worked in close collaboration with him. Grooms began exhibiting at the Sun Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1958. He also performed public pieces which came to be known as "happenings" there. As the creator of one of the first "happenings," Grooms turned away from Abstract Expressionism formerly in favor and forged the way for the Pop Art movement. Like a …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…and Groom's styles. The pairing of these two was excellent and effective. Guare had previously written the prize-winning plays House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, the latter having recently been made into a successful full-length movie.As a tribute to his hometown of Nashville, Grooms created a merry-go-round for the city's Riverfront Park. The sculpture, which was completed in 1998, was his largest work to date, and was filled with imaginative figures. Further Reading Red Grooms and Ruckus Manhattan by Judd Tully (1977) is a book-length source on Grooms's work; Judith Stein has written Red Grooms: A Retrospective, 1956-1984 (1986); frequent reviews of his work can be found in the periodicals Art News and Art in America; other articles can be found through the bibliographic source The Art Index; Grooms's work may also be seen in the children's book Rembrandt Takes a Walk, illustrated by Grooms and written by M. Strand (1986). |