Red Grooms was born on Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7,1937 and is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life.
12 Facts About Red Grooms
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Red Grooms studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at Nashville's Peabody College.
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In 1956, Red Grooms moved to New York City, to enroll at the New School for Social Research.
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Today Red Grooms is recognized as a pioneer of site-specific sculpture and installation art.
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Evident here and in the numerous other cityscapes Red Grooms has created is his extraordinary ability to capture a sense of place with a great sensitivity to detail.
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Besides painting and sculpture, Red Grooms is known for his prolific printmaking.
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Red Grooms has experimented with numerous techniques, creating woodblock prints, spray-painted stencils, soft-ground etchings, and elaborate three-dimensional lithograph constructions.
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In 1979, Red Grooms spent a week teaching at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, where he first started working in bronze.
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Red Grooms' work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States, as well as Europe, and Japan.
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Red Grooms's art is included in the collections of thirty-nine museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Knoxville Museum of Art.
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In 2018 a gift from Walter and Sarah Knestrick of Nashville of 238 graphic works by Red Grooms will be installed in new galleries of the Tennessee State Museum.
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In 2003, Red Grooms was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Academy of Design.