Red Grooms, born Charles Rogers Grooms (June 7, 1937), is an American multimedia artist best known for his colourful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Groom was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown’s Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee during the middle of the Great Depression. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at Nashville's Peabody College. In 1956, Grooms moved to New York City, to enrol at the New School for Social Research. A year later, Grooms attended a summer session at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There he met experimental animation pioneer Yvonne Andersen, with whom he collaborated on several short films.
[Watercolour on paper, 38.1 x 43.18 cm]
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