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Grumman Greenhouse is a sculpture by Philadelphia artist Jordan Griska (BFA '08) installed in 2011 for Lenfest Plaza.
and The Lenfest Center for the Arts: designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Davis Brody Bond LLP
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The Grumman Greenhouse is a piece of street art/public sculpture that sits in the walkway beside The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. The artist Jordan Griska bought the Grumman submarine bomber off of Ebay and repurposed it as a sculpture which encases a small greenhouse.
Joan Jonas: Moving Off The Land II (Excerpts). A group of 11 drawings of red fish - each piece digitally scanned, enlarged, printed and then installed in the lobby of the Lenfest Center For The Arts
Grumman Greenhouse, Cherry St view to Cirra Centre, Philadelphia PA
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www.pafa.org/About/Lenfest-Plaza/Grumman-Greenhouse/1143/
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Olympus E-M5 camera
Olympus 12-40/2.8 lens
Nik Dfine2
Nik RAW pre-sharpen
MacPhun Intensify Pro
Pixelmator using:
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Artist Daan Roosegaarde
"Waterlicht" is an immersive art installation that uses light and mist/smoke to create the sense of being underwater. Part of Columbia University's "Year Of Water" to raise awareness of rising sea levels. The installation has been shown around the world - it's here in New York for 3 nights from October 22 to October 24 at the Lenfest Center For Arts. It's mesmerizing and beautiful.
Columbia University's new Lenfest Center for the Arts recently opened with the "Uptown Triennial" in the Wallach Gallery.
Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center
Sculpture "Bitch Balls" by Raquel Paiewonsky part of the Relational Undercurrents exhibit
Lenfest Plaza | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Here we have 5 bracketed images taken under different exposures, blended using Photomatix Pro. (Method: Exposure Fusion/Interior)
Image edited using Adobe Photoshop Elements with the Topaz Clarity (Interior Strong) filter applied.
Photo 1 from the Philadelphia Series
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Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA)
From PAFA:
About the Museum
PAFA's museum is internationally known for its collections of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Its archives house important materials for the study of American art history, museums, and art training.
History
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) was founded in 1805 by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor William Rush, and other artists and business leaders. They sought to "promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts, in the United States of America, by [...] exciting the efforts of artists, gradually to unfold, enlighten, and invigorate the talents of our Countrymen." (December 26, 1805, Academy Charter).
The Plane
Grumman Greenhouse, is a sculpture by Philadelphia artist Jordan Griska commissioned PAFA for the newly constructed Lenfest Plaza.
Grumman Tracker II was a 45-foot-long cold war era Naval plane with a 73’ wingspan, used to bomb submarines. Griska obtained the decommissioned plane and folded the metal of the nose and body of the plane so that it appears to be crumpling into the platform. In addition, he turned the existing sections of the plane into working greenhouses, leading to the name of the piece - Grumman Greenhouse.
“These repurposed finished pieces simultaneously lead the viewer to contemplate the history of ‘the thing’ while changing the function of the object,” says Jordan Griska, 2008 PAFA alumnus. “Halting the actions of this machine by grounding it in Lenfest Plaza will turn this mobile weapon into a stationary iconic object.”
The inside of the plane grows nutritive and medicinal plants, provided by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and uses the edible growth for City Harvest, which feeds low income families in the region.
“Jordan’s work engages us in social and environmental issues in extraordinary ways,” says PAFA President & CEO David R. Brigham. “I am pleased to see our alumni creating such ambitious and challenging work. Grumman Greenhouse will be a great start to the temporary sculpture program in Lenfest Plaza.”
Griska's Grumman Greenhouse inaugurates the temporary exhibitions program in Lenfest Plaza. Complementing the permanent, site-specific work by Oldenburg, the platform at the west end of the plaza will display projects by emerging and established artists.
The Building -
Overview:
On April 22, 1876, while America celebrated its centennial, PAFA marked an important milestone in its then 71-year history with the opening of its new building. While the museums in New York City and Boston (both founded in 1870) were but fledglings, PAFA began its eighth decade in a striking and revolutionary new home.
PAFA’s Historic Landmark Building is considered one of the finest surviving examples of Victorian Gothic architecture in America. It provides the museum with a magnificent setting for the presentation of its 19th-century collections and special exhibitions. As the modernist architect Louis I. Kahn observed, it is a life-giving and inspired building.
Design:
The building, designed by the Philadelphia firm of Frank Furness and George Hewitt, is generally considered to be primarily the work of Furness, who finished the project after the partnership dissolved in 1875. Furness had been a pupil of Richard Morris Hunt, who introduced him to the aesthetics of the modern Gothic revival. This included John Ruskin's appreciation of the richly colored designs of 14th-century Venice, Owen Jones's and Christopher Dresser's Eastern influenced ornament, and Viollet le Duc's use of foliated decoration combined with cast-iron architecture.
Features
Rising 70 feet above the sidewalk, the PAFA building must have seemed a towering fortress in 1876. Today, dwarfed by more recent buildings, it looks like a decorated jewel box. On the facade, heavy courses of dark stone rise toward a roofline marked with such colorful elements as red and black brick patterning, fanciful floral motifs, and a bas-relief frieze depicting famous artists of the past. A gothic window dominates the central pavilion and creates a motif that recurs inside.
After entering through a low vaulted hall, the visitor steps into the spectacularly ornamented Grand Stairhall. Its staircase, bordered by richly tiled floor and walls, and bronze and mahogany banisters, sweeps upward to the gallery level. This grand space is ringed with gothic arches carrying gold rosette-studded walls. The vaulted ceiling above is painted a brilliant blue with silver stars. Beyond are the galleries where foliate columns support exposed steel beams, one of several radical design elements in the building.
Source for the above: PAFA
An art installation by Jordan Griska on Lenfest Plaza, located outside the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
The installation is a greenhouse built inside a 45' Grumman Tracker II aircraft.
The inaugural exhibition at Columbia University's new Lenfest Center for the Arts in the Wallach Art Gallery presents the work of 25 artists in "Uptown Triennial"
This is a partial view of the gallery with Tomas Vu's piece on the left with reflections of other work in the gallery. The building was designed by Renzo Piano.
Artist Daan Roosegaarde
"Waterlicht" is an immersive art installation that uses light and mist/smoke to create the sense of being underwater. Part of Columbia University's "Year Of Water" to raise awareness of rising sea levels. The installation has been shown around the world - it's here in New York for 3 nights from October 22 to October 24 at the Lenfest Center For Arts. It's mesmerizing and beautiful.
The Grumman Greenhouse...a full-sized Navy Grumman Tracker S-2E airplane made to look as if it nose-dived into the middle of Cherry Street at Lenfest Plaza near the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in downtown Philadelphia. This awesome piece of art was created by graduate Jordan Griska. The cockpit of the plane is actually a working greenhouse powered by LED grow lights and solar panels located in the wings. This is the view from Broad Street looking west down Cherry Street at night... Cheers!
“These repurposed finished pieces simultaneously lead the viewer to contemplate the history of ‘the thing’ while changing the function of the object,” says Jordan Griska, 2008 PAFA alumnus of the Penn-PAFA BFA program. “Halting the actions of this machine by grounding it in Lenfest Plaza will turn this mobile weapon into a stationary iconic object.” ~ www.pafa.org/museum/exhibitions/grumman-greenhouse
Day Trip, 4/6/2019, Philadelphia, PA
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“These repurposed finished pieces simultaneously lead the viewer to contemplate the history of ‘the thing’ while changing the function of the object,” says Jordan Griska, 2008 PAFA alumnus of the Penn-PAFA BFA program. “Halting the actions of this machine by grounding it in Lenfest Plaza will turn this mobile weapon into a stationary iconic object.” ~ www.pafa.org/museum/exhibitions/grumman-greenhouse
Day Trip, 4/6/2019, Philadelphia, PA
Panasonic DMC-GF2
LUMIX G VARIO 14-42/F3.5-5.6
ƒ/8.0 14.0 mm 1/15 400
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Grumman Greenhouse is an art installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Lenfest Plaza. It was made using a decommissioned Grumman Tracker II. A small working greenhouse is in the plane's cockpit.
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Alumni event in Lenfest Plaza of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts(PAFA) Philadelphia Pa.-35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400.
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Oldenburg's Paint Torch and Griska's Grumman Greenhouse are the marquee features of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts' Lenfest Plaza
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This photo which was taken outside of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. This actually Grunman S-2E Navy combat plane that artist Jordan Griska bought on eBay and converted the interior into a greenhouse in the shape of an ancient mastodon. The greenhouse lights are illuminating from the cockpit windows and the belly of the plane, which is now made of plexiglass. I highly recommend checking this out because it is as cool as it looks!
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Claes Oldenberg at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
www.pafa.org/About/Lenfest-Plaza/Oldenburg-s-Paint-Torch/...
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