Nashville-born artist Red Grooms may have left behind the rural roads of Tennessee for the bright lights of New York City, but the cartoon chaos of life in America follows him wherever he calls home. On this week’s Culture Desk, curator Marina Pacini talks about a colorful Grooms’ sculpture in the Brooks Museum’s permanent collection. Grooms will be the subject of an exhibition Red Grooms: Traveling Correspondent, opening in October.
Tennessee S Curve, 2001
Artist: Red Grooms , American, b. 1937
Medium: Enamel on epoxy on styrofoam
Object: 47 × 36 × 4 1/2 in. (119.4 × 91.4 × 11.4 cm)
Credit Line: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art purchase; Morrie A. Moss Acquisition Fund
Object Number: 2001.10
Copyright: © Red Grooms / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
