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Red Grooms: The Unicorn Strikes BackSeptember 25- October 27, 2007Marlborough Gallery 40 West 57th Street Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday from 10 am to 5:30 pm 212-541-4900 marlboroughgallery.com New York City Multimedia Artist Re-imagines Met's Unicorn Tapestries
 "The Unicorn Strikes Back"  "Arbus at the Met" Using his trademark bold colors, Grooms fills six large-size canvases with humans, animals, and lots of drama and action as the unicorn purifies the stream, strikes back at his attackers, is romanced by female spirits, is hunted down, dies in glory, and is reborn. Take your time marveling at these works so you don’t miss any of the myriad details. The exhibit, on view at the Marlborough Gallery through October 27, also features a glassed-in room of seven smaller paintings in which Grooms places famous artists (Degas, Manet, Morandi, Pisarro, Sargent, and Brancusi) within the their own works. Other new paintings include the noirish “Eggs Over Midnight” and “The Client”; “The Funny Place,” a crowded carnivalesque food orgy ruled by an intense smile; “Side Pocket,” in which men in top hats roll boulders into large holes in a surrealistic landscape; and “Arbus at the Met,” in which Grooms pays tribute to the photographer by using subdued black, white, and gray oils. Be sure to walk through the side gallery, comprising 16 prints primarily of New York City, featuring scenes set amid such landmarks as the Cedar Bar, the Morgan Library, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, and others. |
