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Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist famous for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was nicknamed "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown's Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a Provincetown restaurant and studying under Hans Hofmann. Read the full biography

Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist famous for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was nicknamed "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown's Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a Provincetown restaurant and studying under Hans Hofmann. Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee in the midst of the Great Depression. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at Peabody College in Nashville. In 1956, Grooms moved to New York City to enroll 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. In 1969, Peter Schjeldahl compared Grooms to Marcel Duchamp, because they both embodied "a one-man movement that is open to all".