Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Naguy Claude mixes popular culture icons and street art with comic and cartoon characters, as well as famous superheroes, in his original layered mixed media paintings. His artworks ...

Brains in a basket? Unwrapped turkeys piled up in a shopping cart are symbolic of a family exposed brains. This symbolic Pop Art Illustration brilliantly depicts Sigmund Freud holding a baby with a family in the parking lot of a shopping center...

Mixed media with acrylic painting and color lithography on paper. Hand-signed in acrylic paint on front by Peter Max. A unique variation. Frame size 18 x 15.5 inches. Artwork siz...

JJ Galloway is an internationally collected artist known for her whimsical paintings and sculptures that combine people, animals, and food. Using oils, watercolors, and mixed media, ...

Contemporary figurative acrylic on canvas painting by Polish artist Joanna Woyda. Painting is in minimalistic, pop art style. The artwork depicts a girl standing on the shoreline, sh...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

“Made in Japan” is a work that unites precision, stillness, and a soft pastel emotionality. The title refers to the idea of Japanese craftsmanship — impeccable detail, respect for ma...

Alea Pinar Du Pre's original mixed media artworks portray human figures in a graphic pop-realist style. An enterprising autodidact merging technology and fine art, her vibrant contemporary pop-figurative artworks colorfully explore the territory between human reality and artificial reality. Her paintings portray the fact that our perceptions of solid reality are deceptively virtual. This unique collage is a part of her "Snapshot" series, as she explains: "We consist of the same atoms, created billions of years ago in a supernova. And here we are living and breathing and experiencing life, and we think we are all so different. I think we are all the same, it’s just that are masks and poses are different. I love humanity and this game we are playing. With snapshot I am trying to capture the unawareness of the fact that we are the greatest wonder of the universe". This one-of-a-kind 68 inch tall by 52 inch wide vertical artwork includes bright neon colors and sparkle. Pinar Du Pre's fusion of materials - acrylics, printed elements, and layers of gilt captured under an epoxy lens - represents the layered reality she aims to depict. The sides of this canvas are painted metallic and it does not require framing. Pinar Du Pre has signed, titled, and dated this original artwork...

Original mixed media drawing with watercolor on paper. Hand signed by Peter Max. Frame size approx 21 x 19.25 inches. Artwork size 13.75 x 12 inch...

Gary John's pop-street artworks have a whimsical, yet exciting and bold quality inspired by classic cartoon and comic book characters. Blending pop sensibilities with a roughened fau...

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Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

A vivid figurative portrait in acrylic that blends floral patterns, emoji-inspired motifs and saturated color to explore digital identity and self-representation. This vivid figurati...

Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...

JJ Galloway is an internationally collected artist known for her whimsical paintings and sculptures that combine people, animals, and food. Using oils, watercolors, and mixed media, ...

"Jeni Stallings creates work that often draws from her dreams and personal experiences. She tends to render those moments in a muted, femininity-infused surrealism far from the hard-...

Artist: Peter Max, German/American (1937 - ) Title: Colossus Version 1 No. 1 Year: 1971 Medium: Acrylic and Silkscreen on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. Size: 36 in. x 26 in. (91.44 c...

John Randall Nelson’s paintings are layered with his own personal language consisting of patterns, symbols, and archetypes that may not make any literal sense but play on subconsciou...

Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...

John Stango Double Ali No. 5, 2025 Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Artwork Size: 64.37 x 46.87 x 1.50 in

Mixed media with acrylic painting and color lithography on paper. Hand-signed in acrylic paint on front by Peter Max. A unique variation. Frame size approx 21 x 17 inches. Artwor...

Jasper Leadbeater, The Bride, 2025 Spray-paint and shotgun shells combine to create The Bride. Uma Thurman, in her iconic Kill Bill role as The Bride, rendered in shades of Yellow, ...

Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...

Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...

Latest series from artist. Framed Mixed Media Sketch. Hand painted. White Frame. Glass. Humorous. Homage to the Warhol circles with a provocative, narrative twist. About the Artist: NELSON DE LA NUEZ is one of the most sought-after contemporary Pop artists practicing today. His striking, vivid mixed media artwork borrows motifs and messages from the language of wealth, power, fame, excess, taste, and access to cast a narrative about modern society. Known to many as The King of Pop Art®, De La Nuez is an innate iconoclast, elevating themes from commerce, pop culture, advertising, and branding to provide commentary on our culture – showing us that the entire world is for sale –in a manner that is both ironic and aspirational. Included in the “Who’s Who List of the Most Collected Artists of Our Time”, De La Nuez was born in Cuba and moved as a child to California, where he was initially introduced to many of the iconic images that he uses in his art to this day. His ability to experience these important cultural touchpoints at such a young age with a purely fresh perspective allows him a distinctive point of view – one that is both critical and embracing, sardonic and sentimental – that lends his work an air of accessibility and curiosity, and has led to his significant popularity. Demonstrating that art can be both humorous and intellectual, he first gained recognition in the 1980’s for his unique Pop Art style, using familiar imagery from popular board games, as well as newspaper articles, vintage advertisements, and other visual references that spoke about upward mobility to an emerging luxury audience. “My artwork is a reflection of who I am today as a result of every event that has taken place in my life, every person I have met and everything I have processed through my senses up until this point in time,” explains De La Nuez. Always evolving, he is a master at embedding deeper meaning into familiar visual references, updating his themes to reflect the culture of society today, while maintaining the respect and integrity of the references from which he borrows. Over the course of his career, his voice has continued to evolve to provide subtle commentary on the trappings of fame and luxury in a way that continues to feel relevant today. De La Nuez was selected by Warner Bros. as an official artist to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the film, The Wizard of Oz, and was commissioned to create a series of original art work to celebrate the iconic film. He has collaborated with a number of prestigious brands to integrate his artistic vision into various product collections including a current series of timepieces by Swiss watch manufacturer Corum. His branded home, fashion and lifestyle products have sold through luxury retailers including Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, and Nordstrom. De La Nuez’s work hangs alongside the world’s most valuable artists in some of the most prestigious galleries around the globe, is exhibited regularly at top-tier art shows including Art Basel Miami, Art Central Hong Kong, Context and Art Market Hamptons, and is part of numerous private collections. Original De La Nuez pieces hang in Delta airline's private collection in Delta One’s VIP and SkyClub airport lounges throughout the country. He has been commissioned by numerous high-profile brands to create bespoke installations including Hermes and Kim Kardashian’s ShoeDazzle, and has earned a long list of celebrity admirers, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Diane Warren, Howie Mandel, Kaley Cuoco, and Kelly Clarkson. De La Nuez resides in Los Angeles. His humor art website can be found at: (website hidden)(humor art) CV / Selected Exhibitions 2019 Hong Kong Art Fair, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Convention Center Delta SkyClub VIP Lounge: Delta's Permanent Private Collection; newest airport: Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International, Terminal T (Already installed in: JFK, LAX) New York Art Fair, NY, NY, Evan Gallery LA Modern & Contemporary Art Show, LA CA Take the Money & Run De La Nuez, Artplex Gallery, LA, CA 2018 Miami Art Basel, Context, FL (12/2018) Baselworld, Basel, Switzerland Kips Bay Palm Beach Show House, Palm Beach FL, House Beautiful Magazine Featured Art Art Market Hamptons, Market Art & Design, The Bridgehampton Museum Art Central Hong Kong Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA LA Modern & Contemporary Art Show, LA CA Pop, Bang; De La Nuez, DTR Modern Palm Beach, FL 2017 Corum Bubble Watch; De La Nuez Bubble Collection, Launch During Miami Art Basel, Miami Beach, Scope, FL Miami Beach Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL Made in America Solo Show, Caesar's Palace, SKYE Art Gallery, Las Vegas Pop Masters DTR Gallery Boston, MA The King of Pop Art: The De La Nuez Collections, Gallery 1949, Aspen, CO Ritz Carlton Georgetown, Washington D.C., Lobby & sitting areas Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL Sotheby's Backstage at the Geffen Exclusive VIP Gala Featuring Nelson De La Nuez Pop Art- Honoring Mel Brooks & Quincy Jones, Westwood, CA Art Boca, Boca Raton FL LA Modern & Contemporary Art Show, LA, CA De La Nuez Icons, Pop and HBO, Blink Digital Studios/HBO, Burbank 2016 De La Nuez Pop Icons, Caesar’s Palace, SKYE Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV Miami Beach Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL Pop Classics, Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nuremberg, Germany Art Hamptons, International Fine Art Fair, Bridgehampton, NY Palm Beach Pop, DTR Gallery, Worth Ave, Palm Beach FL Permanent Installation at Bagatelle Club / Restaurant, The One Group/STK; Sponsored by Moet Champagne and Toast vodka Celebrating The King of Pop Art® & his Collections, The Art of Fashion; Neiman Marcus, Artist Special Appearance; Solo installation of paintings in Designer Shoe Dept, Los Angeles, Sponsored by Moet champagne SCOPE Art Show, New York 2015 Delta One & SkyClub VIP Lounges: Delta's Permanent Private Collection at LAX, JFK & Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport Art Fair Singapore, Singapore The Art of Pop and Comics, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Florida De La Nuez Uncensored Bagatelle Club/Restaurant, The One Group Miami Beach Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL Wizard of Oz originals by Nelson De La Nuez, Miami Children's Museum Backstage at the Geffen Exclusive VIP Gala Featuring Nelson De La Nuez Pop Art- Honoring Sir Elton John and George Lucas, Westwood, CA Art Southampton International Contemporary Art Fair, Southampton, NY Pop Iconoclast: Nelson De La Nuez, SMoCA, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Scottsdale, AZ Houston Fine Art Fair, Bruce Lurie Gallery, Houston, TX Toronto Love Art Fine Art Fair, Toronto, Canada Art Wynwood International Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL 2014-earlier Nelson De La Nuez Oz Collections, NY Plaza Hotel, NY Fashion Week, NY Backstage at the Geffen Exclusive VIP Gala Featuring Nelson De La Nuez Pop Art- Honoring Steve Martin & Walt Disney Chairman Alan Horn, Westwood, CA Miami Beach Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL Pop Americana, Cartoon Network Studios, Burbank, CA De La Nuez Pop Art Originals, Shows & Auctions, Princess Galleries, Europe, U.K. Australia, Caribbean, U.S. Inspirations of Oz/ De La Nuez Originals, Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising-Museums & Galleries, Los Angeles, CA Inspirations of Oz Tavern on the Green, Emerald Gala/Auction, NY SELECTED ARTICLES / PUBLICATIONS 2019 C California Style Magazine, Featuring Be Happy Original painting Veranda Magazine, "White Hot" Designer Suzanne Kasler Featuring De La Nuez artwork 2018 House Beautiful Magazine, Palm Beach FL, Lisa Erdmann & Associates Design, Material Girl painting featured Michael Weare, Luxury Watchuseek, "Corum Bubble Meets the King of Pop Art" Charlotte Anfray, Paris Match Magazine, Paris France, Weekly The Watch Quote, "Corum & The King of Pop Art; Between Pop Art and Pop Horlogerie" World Tempus, "Corum gives free reign to the Pop Art American artist to create a Bubble collection reflecting his own style." 2017 Aspen Magazine, Cover Art, Feature, Modern Luxury Publications Aspen Gallery Guide, Modern Luxury Publications Collections Magazine, Toronto, Harvey Kalles Aspen Peak, Feature, Modern Luxury Publications Aspen Insider's Guide 2017, Modern Luxury Publications David Jenison, Prohbtd Culture, Nelson De La Nuez Interview: "Nelson De La Nuez Talks Cannabis, Vodka & Xanax Cocktails" Aspen Sojourner Magazine, Nancy Mayer Publisher 2016 Forrest Cardamenis, Luxury Daily, "Young Affluence and Prolific Artist Generate Boom in Aspen" Aspen Gallery Guide, Holiday/Winter, Modern Luxury Publications Palm Beach Guide, Cover and Feature Eliza Krpoyan, New York Observer "Michael Jackson's Favorite Artist Pops Moet for his Birthday at Bagatelle" Gina Samarotto, Private Air Luxury Homes Magazines, "It Starts with a Thought; the Art Of Nelson De La Nuez" Hollywood Reporter, "Art on the Edge" 2015 Gina Samarotto, Private Air Luxury Homes Magazines, "The King of Pop Art" YRB Magazine, "Art Clash; Interview with Nelson De La Nuez" 2014-2011 Gretchen Meier, L.A. Times, "A New King of Pop Art" (website hidden), "How to Get a Monumental Luxury Home Interior" Intl Luxury Lifestyle Magazine NOTABLE COLLECTIONS Delta One VIP Lounge: Permanent Private Collection, LAX, NY; Delta One & Sky Club Lounges: Purchased for their Permanent Private Collection, Los Angeles, LAX, New York, JFK, Atlanta Shoedazzle/ Just Fab Headquarters Corporate Private Collection; (Kim Kardashian, Robert Shapiro, Brian Lee) CA; El Segundo, CA Ritz Carlton Cancun, Private Collection & Books at resort The Sarah Jessica Parker Collection, New York The Diane Warren Collection, Los Angeles, CA The Michael Jackson Collection, Los Angeles, CA E! Entertainment (Creator of) corporate Private Collection Rick & Kathy Hilton Private Collection Paris Hilton Private Collection Howie Mandell Private Collection Howard Stern Private Collection Burt Reynolds Private Collection Rob Lowe...

Original painting. Hand signed, dated, and titled on verso by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be con...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

JJ Galloway is an internationally collected artist known for her whimsical paintings and sculptures that combine people, animals, and food. Using oils, watercolors, and mixed media, ...

Art, like music, isn’t about precision. It’s about presence. About that moment when everything becomes alive. This is not just a guitar. It’s the voice of freedom. Every chord is an...

Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...

"The Climb" Abstract Painting 12" x 12" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad Medium: acrylic on wood Academy of Fine Arts Cairo graduate Tasneem El Meshad describes her art, as “a reflection ...

Born in 1982 in Manzanillo, Cuba, artist Darwin Estacio Martinez honed his artistic skills at the Professional Academy of Fine Arts "El Alba" in Holguin, and furthered his education ...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene during the Art Basel Miami art fair in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he ...

Jasper Leadbeater, Notorious, 2025 Spray-paint and shotgun shells combine to create Notorious. Biggie Smalls, The Notorious B.I.G., rendered in shades of purple, looms large in this...

Gary John's pop-street artworks have a whimsical, yet exciting and bold quality inspired by classic cartoon and comic book characters. Blending pop sensibilities with a roughened fau...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Alea Pinar Du Pre's original mixed media artworks portray human figures in a graphic pop-realist style. An enterprising autodidact merging technology and fine art, her vibrant contemporary pop-figurative artworks colorfully explore the territory between human reality and artificial reality. Her paintings portray the fact that our perceptions of solid reality are deceptively virtual. This unique collage is a part of her "Snapshot" series, as she explains: "We consist of the same atoms, created billions of years ago in a supernova. And here we are living and breathing and experiencing life, and we think we are all so different. I think we are all the same, it’s just that are masks and poses are different. I love humanity and this game we are playing. With snapshot, I am trying to capture the unawareness of the fact that we are the greatest wonder of the universe". This one-of-a-kind 47 inch high by 62 inch wide artwork depicts the portrait of a female figure. Pinar Du Pre's fusion of materials - acrylics, printed elements, and layers of gilt captured under an epoxy lens - represents the layered reality she aims to depict. The sides of this canvas are painted as a continuation of the front and it does not require framing. Pinar Du Pre has signed, titled, and dated this original artwork on the back of the canvas. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Building on the synthetic intensity of digital art, her figurative style depicts a familiar but warped daily life. Alea Pinar Du Pre has been influenced deeply by the traditional fine art and design practices of Kunstlerhaus and Wiener Werkstaette, two artist societies with roots in Vienna, Austria. Paying tribute to her main influences, Alea describes her style as "Jugendstil Pop-Art". But where Pop art was stimulated by the iconography of materialism and the mass culture of its time, her vision is more intimate in its subversive intent. Alea Pinar Du Pre lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Her artworks are exhibited and collected in international hot spots across Europe, Asia, and North America. The artist states of her work: "My endless questioning the nature of our existence stems from an insatiable curiosity and an unfathomable love for truth. I believe in the sacredness of the human experience. Art is a canvas to mutate my curiosity into a form I can share—to transfer scientific curiosity into pictures—to give form to the formless.” Artplex Gallery has been representing and exhibiting Alea Pinar Du Pre's original artworks in Los Angeles since 2018, presenting her impressive works to an international collector base around the globe. The gallery has been a 1stdibs partner since 2014 with consistently excellent reviews from clients worldwide. The gallery exhibits a well-curated selection of original artworks beyond the ordinary from established and emerging international artists with diverse backgrounds at high standards. Artplex Gallery is known to provide accurate descriptions, images, reliable services, communication, and delivery. The gallery's commitment to customer satisfaction means that clients can invest in art with confidence, knowing they have a reputable and established art gallery backing their acquisition. Artplex Gallery prioritizes our clients' peace of mind by ensuring a seamless and worry-free art-buying experience. REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA EXHIBITIONS 2021-25 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2019 “Voltage,” Artplex Gallery Los Angeles, California Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Artplex Gallery 2018 Singapore Artstage, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery “Layered Boldness,” Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Palm Beach Art Fair, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery “Frequencies,” Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Artsource Ireland, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Vue Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery Group Show, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery AFF New York, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery Solo Show, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery Group Show, Ransom Gallery Artstage Singapore, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Singapore Wynwood Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Miami, FL AFF Battersea, Cube Gallery AFF Antwerp, Cube Gallery 2017 Scope Miami, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Miami, Florida Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Redart Gallery, Istanbul “FaceTime,” Solo Show, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland AFF New York, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York AFF Hong Kong, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Hong Kong Artsource Ireland, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Art Hamptons, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Southampton Cube Art...

Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Stretched. All reasonable of...

Original mixed media drawing with watercolor on paper. Hand signed by Peter Max. Frame size approx 17 x 21 inches. Artwork size 11 x 15 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition....

This painting is about the quiet magic of stories. A girl traveling from Orwell to The Little Prince without ever leaving her book throne. Books change us!

Contemporary figurative acrylic on canvas painting by Polish artist Joanna Woyda. Painting is in minimalistic, pop art style. The artwork depicts a sunbed on a beach. Colors are blue...

Naguy Claude mixes popular culture icons and street art with comic and cartoon characters, as well as famous superheroes, in his original layered mixed media paintings. His artworks ...

Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...

Nostalgic mixed media on wood. Superman hero saving the day. Pop Art genre. About the artist: David's paintings have a build-up of layers using different mixed mediums such as...

This acrylic painting depicts a mirrored pair of figures whose features blend human likeness and digital iconography. Part of Natasha Lelenco’s You Are The One series, “The Two Ones...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Orignal and unique artwork by Russell Young. Acrylic paint, enamel and diamond dust screen print on linen, unframed 62 x 48 inches, from the series "Diamond Dust". Dark colors, hand...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Red Grooms (American, b. 1937). Lithograph in colors on wove paper, 1993 "East of Canal Street, Corner of Canal." Published by the Brooklyn Museum (Reference: Red Grooms: The Graphic Work, Walter G. Knestrick. Harry Abrams Inc Publishers, New York, 2001. Cat. no 138 page 172, Alexander & Cowles 138). Downtown Manhattan, New York City Chinatown Street scene with various vendors. Hand signed in black crayon and numbered on image at bottom edge. "8/115 Red Grooms." Dimensions 22" x 30" Printer: Sharks Lithographs Ltd, Boulder, CO Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown's Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann. Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee during the middle of the Great Depression. Red Grooms came of age in the shadow of the Abstract Expressionists. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at Nashville's Peabody College. In 1956, Grooms moved to New York City, to enroll at the New School for Social Research. A year later, Grooms attended a summer session at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There he met experimental animation pioneer Yvonne Andersen, with whom he collaborated on several short films. Grooms follows in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, who were canny commentators on the human condition. In 1969, Peter Schjeldahl compared Grooms to Marcel Duchamp, because both embodied "a movement of one man that is open to everybody." In the spring of 1958, Grooms, Yvonne Andersen and Lester Johnson each painted twelve-foot by twelve-foot panels, which they erected with telephone poles on a parking lot adjacent an amusement park in Salisbury, MA. Inspired by artist-run spaces such as New York's Hansa Gallery and Phoenix, and Provincetown's Sun Gallery, Grooms and painter Jay Milder opened the City Gallery in Grooms' second-floor loft in the Flatiron District. When Phoenix refused to show Claes Oldenburg, Grooms and Milder dropped out of Phoenix and City Gallery presented Oldenberg's first New York exhibition, as well as that of Jim Dine. Other artists who showed at City Gallery include Stephen Durkee, Mimi Gross (daughter of Chaim Gross and Red Grooms wife), Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, and Alex Katz. Grooms never developed the detached stance of such Pop Art practitioners as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein or James Rosenquist. Instead he painted his own life, and became, literally, an actor on the stage of life -- in this case the art-as-life "happenings" of the downtown New York scene. Inspired by George Méliès's 1902 film A Trip to the Moon...

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Jasper Leadbeater, Judgement Day, 2025 Spray-paint and shotgun shells combine to create Judgement Day. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his iconic Terminator II role as the T-800, rendered...

Jasper Leadbeater, O-Ren Ishii, 2025 Spray-paint and shotgun shells combine to create O-Ren Ishii. Lucy Liu, in her iconic Kill Bill role as O-Ren Ishii, rendered in shades of Pink,...

Jasper Leadbeater, The R.Z.A. , 2025 Spray-paint and shotgun shells combine to create The R.Z.A.. RZA, Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, rendered in shades of yellow, looms large in this inc...