Red Grooms

Red Grooms, born in 1937, American painter, known for his exuberant pop art renditions of urban life. His largest and best-known work, Ruckus Manhattan (1975-76, Marlborough Gallery, New York City), exemplifies his style. It is a huge, three-dimensional painted model of New York City, a dynamic mélange of caricatured buildings, stores, people, and vehicles presented in an effervescent style of skewed perspectives, bright neon colors, odd angles, ricocheting lines, and hilarious satiric details, such as the magazine covers in his version of a 42nd St. bookstore.