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Pas de Deux V, Alex Katz, 1983 Red Grooms and Liz Ross A painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, and theatrical showman, Grooms has brought his unique vision to life in nearly every medium. Born Charles Rogers Grooms in 1937 in Nashville, Tennessee, Red (named after his hair color) began his extensive art career at an early age with an exhibition of paintings at a Nashville gallery while he was still in high school. In 1956, after studying at the Art Institute of Chicago and Peabody College in his hometown, Grooms relocated to New York City. By the 1960s, Grooms was creating the lively, mixed-media self named “sculpto-pictoramas,” and installations for which he became known. Populated with colorful characters of every ethnicity, age and walk of life, Grooms’ cityscapes capture the lively and often chaotic energy of modern city life. He has exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe and Japan and is represented in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Metropolitan Museum; The Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Brooklyn Museum; The Denver Art Museum, among others. Alex Katz, Pas de Deux 5, 1983, serigraph, paper/image size: 36 x 20 inches. |
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Currently, Grooms both works and resides in New York City.