RED GROOMS
It’s All About Flowers
8x24
Flowers in a Glass Jar, 2021
watercolor on paper
18x12
Late Summer Flowers with Hornet’s Nest, 2017 watercolor, acrylic and charcoal on Arches paper
David Lusk Gallery is pleased to present, It’s All About Flowers, by artist Red Grooms. Red Grooms was born in Nashville in 1937 and has lived in New York for the past 60 years. He studied at Hillsboro High School and Peabody College in Nashville, then at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The New School in New York, and at Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Groom’s work has been exhibited widely since the 1960s. Since Ruckus Manhattan, his widely acclaimed exhibition at Marlborough Gallery in 1976, Grooms has staked his claim as one of America’s most original, inventive, and popular artists.
Vase, 2021
watercolor, acrylic and charcoal on Arches paper
Weeds and Flowers, 2021
watercolor, acrylic and charcoal on Arches paper
Hydrangeas and Carafe, 2021 watercolor, acrylic, and charcoal on Arches paper 12x16
The works in Its All About Flowers were painted during the early days of the pandemic at Grooms’s longtime Tennessee retreat near Beersheba Springs. The flowers, furnishings and flowers depicted are a far cry from the boisterous and hectic scenes that are so easily recognized, but they, too, represent a particular time and place perfectly.
White Flowers and Watering Can, 2021
watercolor, acrylic and charcoal on Arches paper
18x24
Limelights and Zinnias, 2021
watercolor, acrylic and charcoal on Arches paper
Grooms has been honored with several important exhibitions including the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in 2016; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven in 2013; National Academy of Design, New York in 2001; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New Yorkin 1987; and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia in 1985. Grooms has received numerous awards and commissions throughout his career, including the he National Academy of Design’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.
Grooms’s work can be found in over forty public institutions, including: The Art Institute of Chicago; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
By the Hearth, 2021
watercolor on paper
16x12
Exhibition Conversation: Join us on Thursday, August 15, at 6 p.m. for a lively conversation with Red, led by Marina Pacini and David McCarthy. Pacini is the recently retired chief curator of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and the curator and author of the Brooks's 100th Anniversary exhibition "Traveling Correspondent" from 2016. McCarthy is a Professor of Art and the Chair of the Art Department at Rhodes College and the author of several books, including "Pop Art" from 2000.
Afternoon Sun, 2021
watercolor, acrylic, litho crayon, graphite and charcoal on Arches paper
18x24
