Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from "Ruckus Manhattan" →

For the first time in more than 30 years—and on the city’s 400th birthday—experience a fantastical and hilarious tribute to New York. Ruckus Manhattan opened at Marlborough Gallery in 1976 as a sprawling, 6,400-square-foot "sculptural comic book" of urban life. Created by artists Red Grooms and Mimi Gross with their collaborators in The Ruckus Construction Co., the vibrant installation satirized the city with a dynamic mix of painting, sculpture, performance, and puppetry. From a high-heeled Statue of Liberty to a Financial District in flames, Ruckus Manhattan’s visual metaphorscaptured the chaos, corruption, sexuality, and creativity of 1970s NYC.

A standout sculptural element of the original work, Dame of the Narrows now returns to public view for the first time since 1994. Featuring a playfully exaggerated version of the Staten Island Ferry set against a whimsical backdrop of Lower Manhattan, the piece was given to the Brooklyn Museum in 1977. Joining it in this exhibition is an audacious component of Ruckus Manhattan called 42nd Street Porno Bookstore. Witness this fresh, funny, and deeply New York celebration of a city that so many love to hate—and to claim as their own.

Location

Great Hall, 1st Floor

Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from "Ruckus Manhattan" is organized by Kimberli Gant, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, with Indira A. Abiskaroon, Curatorial Assistant, Modern and Contemporary, Brooklyn Museum.

Armory Show 2023

Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY

Douglas Dunn + Dancers: Garden Party

Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Norway

Some of These Daze

CLICK HERE TO VIEW PDF OF BOOK

Drawings by Mimi Gross. Writings by Charles Bernstein. Granary Books, NYC, 2005.


Beginning on September 11, 2001, Mimi Gross filled five sketchbooks with ink drawings made on the downtown streets, often working in the dark, directly at Ground Zero. Simultaneously, Charles Bernstein was also writing in response to the events of 9/11. Gross proposed a collaboration after hearing Bernstein read his new writings at the Zinc Bar in New York City on September 30, 2001.

Gross and Bernstein together made a selection of images and text for the work.

13 American Artists: A Celebration of Historic Work

April 29th - June 26th, 2021

Eric Firestone Gallery
40 Great Jones Street | Ground Floor | New York, NY | 646.998.3727

Featuring work by: Elaine Lustig Cohen | Charles DuBack | Martha Edelheit | Shirley Gorelick Mimi Gross | Howard Kanovitz | Jay Milder | Daphne Mumford | Joe Overstreet | Pat Passlof | Reuben Kadish | Miriam Schapiro | Thomas Sills

"After Delacroix', 'Women of Algiers'" pastel on paper, 12'h x 5'w, 1979/80

RECENT WORK

All Under Heaven are Equal, 2021, 60 x 84 inches, Acrylic on mat board mounted on wood

The Arrival, 1620

Mimi Gross: The Arrival, 1620

October 2 - January 31, 2021 at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum

Mimi Gross, The Arrival, 1620, installation view

Mimi Gross: The Arrival, 1620

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https://www.paam.org/exhibitions/mimi-gross-the-arrival-1620/

Front cover of Provincetown Arts, Vol. 35, Issue 2020/21

Click HERE to read a review in The Provincetown Independent


Hyperallergic - September 2019

The Intertwined Lives of Artists in a Community in Rural Maine

The artists in Slab City Rendezvous influenced, nurtured, collaborated with, and painted one another, merging into one big happy family.

https://hyperallergic.com/515598/the-intertwined-lives-of-artists-in-a-community-in-rural-maine/

New York Times - Art Review

New York Galleries: What to See Right Now

Work by two women who made figurative paintings in the ’50s; short films and videos about black culture; and a painter’s intermingling of contemporary and historical art.

by Jillian Steinhauer

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/arts/design/art-galleries-new-york.html?searchResultPosition=1