Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Andy Monument, Union Square NY

A new public art work has appeared in New York's Union Square. Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, Rob Pruitt's The Andy Monument (2011) is a statue of Andy Warhol made from chromed, glass-fibre-reinforced polyester resin and stood atop a concrete plinth. His Warhol shares the square with monuments to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Mohandas Gandhi, and is the Warhol of the 1970s and 80s: big glasses, shirt, tie and casual blazer, a Bloomingdale 'medium brown bag' in his right hand and a Polaroid camera slung around his neck. Read more...
Image: Rob Pruitt's The Andy Monument (2011) commissioned by the Public Art Fund, NY