Artist Rob Pruitt will unveil The Andy Monument, his homage to Andy Warhol—the father of Pop Art and one of New York’s enduring cultural icons—in front of Warhol’s former Union Square “Factory” studio.
WHO:
Rob Pruitt
Susan K. Freedman, Public Art Fund President
Jennifer E. Falk, Union Square Partnership Executive Director
WHEN:
Wednesday, March 30 at 11:00am
WHERE:
Union Square
Pedestrian Mall at 17th Street and Broadway
BACKGROUND:
Commissioned by Public Art Fund, the nearly ten-foot-tall sculpture is located at the northwest corner of Union Square just outside the building that housed Warhol’s Factory for more than ten years in the 1970s and early 80s. It is down the street from another Union Square West Factory location, around the corner from Max’s Kansas City—a favorite Warhol haunt.
The chrome figure wears his signature fright wig and carries a Polaroid camera around his neck. In his right hand he carries a Medium Brown Bag, which Pruitt imagines to be filled with copies of Interview magazine, the publication Warhol founded in 1969, just up the street.
