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Red Grooms
Moonstruck
$1,300.00
$975.00
Medium: Porcelain Plate
Date: 1994
Edition: of 2500
Size: 10.5 x 10.5 x 1.5 inches
Additional Details: Printed and glazed 3D porcelain plate with rhinestones. Printed Red Grooms signature lower front. Printed Red Grooms signature and title with hand numbered edition in 24 karat gold pen on verso. Published by Venice Oakwood/Inner City Enterprise, California. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included.
Art ID: G24614
Red Grooms is an American artist known for his painted-collage sculptures of both fictional and observed scenes. Characterized by his distinctive stylization and humorous portraits of people, Grooms’s works are constructed from illustration board and a hot glue gun, pieced together into a believable physical space. “In the New York works I’ve done I have tried to make it a kind of portraiture thing where I was really trying to get the texture of what I thought I saw, particularly in the neurosis of the population, and present it in context with the props—the mailboxes, fireplugs, any texture of the city,” he has explained. Born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937 in Nashville, TN, he went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, before moving to New York in 1956. There, Grooms befriended and exhibited with artists such as Alex Katz, Jim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg, gaining recognition for his unique take on Pop Art. In 1986, the award-winning film Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse was released, documenting the artist’s process and personality. Grooms continues to live and work in New York, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, among others.
