Red Grooms

Other artists who showed at City Gallery include Stephen Durkee Mimi Gross Bob Thompson Lester Johnson and Alex Katz. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago then at Nashville's Peabody College. " Other Grooms films include:The Big Sneeze (1962) a hand-drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt; Before an' After (1964) a sadomastic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix/part healthclub operator; Fat Feet (1966) a collaboration with Mimi Gross Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends; Tapping Toes (1968-70) which uses his first sculpto-pictorama City of Chicago (1967) as its set; Conquest of Libya by Italy (1912-13) (1972-3) a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels; Hippodrome Hardware (1973) based on Grooms' 1972 live performance of the same name whose main character Mr.

Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown’s Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwaRed Groomsr at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann.