NYC - Union Square: Andy Monument
The Andy Monument, a 10-foot-tall chrome statue of Andy Warhol by sculptor Rob Pruitt, was on display in the pedestrian plaza at 17th Street at the northeast corner of Union Square from March 30 to October 2, 2011. Pruitt fashioned the statue, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, by using digital scanning of a live model -- his friend and Cincinnati art collector Andy Stillpass -- and hand sculpting. Pruitt depicts Warhol in 1977, dressed in Levi's 501s, a Brooks Brothers blazer, wearing a Polaroid camera around his neck and carrying a Medium Brown Bag from Bloomingdale's.
The Monument, an homage to the Father of Pop Art, stands in front of the building at 860 Broadway, which now houses a PetCo, but was the former location of Andy Warhol's "Factory." Warhol started his Factory in 1968, where he made silkscreens and printed pagazines, at the nearby Decker Building, at 33 Union Square West before moving to Broadway and 17th Street in the 1970s. It was on this corner that Warhol could often be found standing, handing out copies of Interview Magazine, a publication he founded in 1969.
NYC - Union Square: Andy Monument
The Andy Monument, a 10-foot-tall chrome statue of Andy Warhol by sculptor Rob Pruitt, was on display in the pedestrian plaza at 17th Street at the northeast corner of Union Square from March 30 to October 2, 2011. Pruitt fashioned the statue, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, by using digital scanning of a live model -- his friend and Cincinnati art collector Andy Stillpass -- and hand sculpting. Pruitt depicts Warhol in 1977, dressed in Levi's 501s, a Brooks Brothers blazer, wearing a Polaroid camera around his neck and carrying a Medium Brown Bag from Bloomingdale's.
The Monument, an homage to the Father of Pop Art, stands in front of the building at 860 Broadway, which now houses a PetCo, but was the former location of Andy Warhol's "Factory." Warhol started his Factory in 1968, where he made silkscreens and printed pagazines, at the nearby Decker Building, at 33 Union Square West before moving to Broadway and 17th Street in the 1970s. It was on this corner that Warhol could often be found standing, handing out copies of Interview Magazine, a publication he founded in 1969.