“Red Grooms: Torn from the Pages II” Exhibition

Marlborough Broome Street

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This will be artist’s second Torn from the Pages exhibition with Marlborough Gallery, a continuation of the first exhibition which took place from October to December of 2012. Red Grooms came to international attention through his early Happenings, like Burning Building (1959), and his famed three-dimensional constructions, such as Ruckus Manhattan, which was exhibited at Marlborough Gallery in 1976. He has worked in a variety of media, including film and theatrical performances. This exhibition comprises 19 small mixed-media constructions that explore and delve into the creative realms of other artists including Joseph Cornell, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama, Paul Klee, Edward Munch and Francis Picabia.

In a new take on his hallmark three-dimensional constructions, which compound painting and sculpture, Grooms incorporates an element of collage into the works in this exhibition, integrating pages from magazines with watercolor, acrylic, ink and other media, creating perceptive portraits of other artists and placing them within the enviornment of their own works. For example, in Galactic Orbs (Yayoi Kusama), 2013, Kusama appears three times as if receding into a portal of her iconic dotted dimensions. Edward Hopper sits upon a bed in one of his own compositions, and Titian paints one his famous figures in plein aire near a sign reading “Portraits, $1.00.”

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from March 19, 2014 to April 19, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-03-19 from 18:00 to 20:00

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