Red Grooms created this artwork called Subway riders from New York. This piece of artwork was located on the eighth floor of the vertical campus building. What made this picture interesting was the vibrant colors and the characters’ features. The main components of this piece are the crowded people, public installations and scale sculptures of three dimensional. Throughout the image, it’s shown the people’s facial expressions tend to be serious repeatedly. I think the image represents the lives of many New Yorkers, of taking the train in their daily lives. I wonder what if Rod has a background story for each person in his drawing? 

Grooms has influenced his distinguished fusion of American cultural themes into a variety of artworks, and mixed-media paintings. This reminds of my daily routine as a New Yorker, going to school in the morning when it’s rush hour. The intended audience for this piece was for people living in New York who take transportation everyday and experience with trains being crowded, and it’s something I also relate to. The image can be read for ethos because Grooms used his credibility in artwork that people could understand. This image makes me feel connected, because I experience what’s in the image, and know the feeling of the image. I recognized that people are able to understand the image because we experience this and know how it is.