%C2%A9Red Grooms %2F Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C New York
Artist's multiple; three-dimensional color lithograph and screenprint on Arches Cover paper (white and black), Rives BFK Journal paper, Japanese paper, and vinyl, cut out, glued, and mounted on white painted backing board; framed and covered with a Plexiglas domeexpand_more
Vermillion Archival Collection, Gift of funds from The Northern Star Foundation and The Hersey Foundationexpand_more P.83.59.31
Grooms' audacious portrait of the Surrealist artist-provocateur Salvador Dali emerging from a bowl of salad greens satirizes the traditional notions of portraiture, dream imagery, and indeed, Dali himself, whose disembodied head is served up on a platter. For this remarkably complex project, Grooms used fresh vegetables he purchased at a Minneapolis supermarket as the models for his salad ingredients, which were recreated as screenprints on vinyl. Painted ping pong balls were used for Dali's intense gaze.
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