Red Grooms, Redgrooms, 2004

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

Unframed

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.
This Deluxe Edition is hand signed by Red Grooms, with an original colored 3-D Pop-Up/Multiple; limited edition of 400 numbered copies, signed & numbered on a label on front end paper (also designed by the artist); the pop-up is printed on a thick smooth paper, with one of its edges lightly attached to book's back board to keep it from moving -as issued by publisher; the taxi pop-up folds out to paper size: 18-1/4" x 11-1/4" and the actual pop-up -when opened- measures 9-1/2" long x 2-1/4" wide & stands 6" in. high.; the pop-up can easily be removed and placed in a permanent display case. This monograph covers Groom's first fifty-years. It includes many of his best-known and extravagant life-size environments of stores, subways, city scenes, a rodeo, his dynamic drawings and prints, and his new works and personal photographs that have never before been seen; text by Arthur Danto, M. Livingstone, and T. Hyman; with 260 colored plates of which many are full & double paged; 240pp, glossy pictorial hard boards with red titles on cover and spine, with illustrated dust jacket and all housed in a thick cardboard slipcase.

Book information:
Publisher: Rizzoli (August 7, 2004)
English; Hardcover; 240 pages with 260 colored plates of which many are full & double paged

Publisher's blurb:
Best known for his extravagant life-sized artworks of stores, subways, and city scenes, Red Grooms populates these environments with offbeat, spirited, easily identifiable characters who strike a humorous chord. Intertwining sculpture with painting, his work transcends both traditional portraiture and caricature.

This is the first major book on Red Grooms's work published since 1984 and includes many drawings, personal photographs, and prints that have never been seen or published. Many of his famed sculpto-pictoramas appear in full color and some in gatefolds, such as Moby Dick Meets the NYPL, Tennessee Carousel, and The Marathon.

Grooms's 1995 Grand Central Terminal is still remembered by thousands as a peak artistic experience. Other environments include an agricultural building for the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa, the beloved Ruckus Manhattan (complete with subway car and Brooklyn Bridge), and a Ruckus Rodeo commissioned by the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art. Mixed-media pieces highlight portraits of classic and contemporary artists, from Toulouse-Lautrec to Francis Bacon. Hollywood greats, historical figures, even Chuck Berry, have been immortalized in the exuberant Grooms style.

Arthur Danto writes on Red Grooms and the spirit of comedy; Marco Livingstone's introduction contextualizes Red Grooms's work in the art of his time and discusses his relationship to Pop, Happenings, environmental art, and developments in painting; a recent interview with Red Grooms by Timothy Hyman completes the text.

Grooms's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and around the world. The artist lives in New York City and Nashville, Tennessee.

More about Red Grooms:
Red Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937 and has lived in New York for the past 60 years. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The New School in New York City, and at Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

The artist’s work has been exhibited widely since the 1960s. Since Ruckus Manhattan, his widely acclaimed exhibition at Marlborough Gallery in 1976, Grooms has staked his claim as one of America’s most original, inventive, and popular artists. He has been honored with several important exhibitions including the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, Tennessee in 2016; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut and Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont in 2013; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York in 2008; the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York in 2003; National Academy of Design, New York, New York in 2001; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York in 1987; and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1985. Grooms has received numerous awards and commissions throughout his career, including the he National Academy of Design’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.

Grooms’s work can be found in over forty public institutions, including: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.

Courtesy of Marlborough Gallery