Red Grooms at Marlborough Gallery

Is Red Grooms a ‘zany genius’ or ‘so much kitsch?’  The New York Times pondered the question in a 2018 profile of the New York-based creator of ‘sculpto-picto-ramas’ – sculptures of New Yorkers and their habitats.  Now, visitors to Marlborough Gallery’s exhibition of Grooms’ work from ’74 to the present have the opportunity to consider anew Grooms’ affectionately eccentric characters, such as this dog-walker from 1981.  (On view in Chelsea through May 8th).

Red Grooms, Walking the Dogs, painted canvas, papier-mache and metal chain on wood support, 36 ¾ x 20 x 22 ½ inches, 1981.