AWESOME New Installations by PAFA

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AWESOME New Installations by PAFA

November 9, 2011

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I had heard about them installing this big paint brush at PAFA (same dude — Claes Oldenburg — who did the big clothes pin at 15th and Market streets) as apart of the new Lensfest plaza on North Broad street, but I don’t remember hearing anything about this crashed plane… LOVE it!!

Looks pretty new too, as they were still doing something to the plane when I was taking these photos.

What do y’all think?

UPDATE: The plane is “Grumman Greenhouse.” He bought the plane on ebay and remade it into the sculpture. [That’s for the info, Wendy!]

Apparently, the plane will be home to some plants as well!!

4 responses to “AWESOME New Installations by PAFA”

bobdix

November 9, 2011 at 5:27 pm

supposedly it will have vegetation all over it by the spring

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Lina

November 9, 2011 at 5:54 pm

Dude this looks awesome! I’m totes takin a trip to see it!

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James Brennan

November 9, 2011 at 9:09 pm

Forget the Oldenburg (not that I don’t love his work), the Jordan Griska is far more interesting in my opinion – although, he owes pretty much all of it to Claes in the first place.

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PAFA’s “Lenfest Plaza” Gets Some New Life « Streets Dept

December 26, 2011 at 8:54 pm

[…] Photographed this AWESOME crashed-plane sculpture, by local Philly artist Jordan Griska, in early November, but I walked by it again the other day and it now appears the sculpture, aptly named “Gunman Greenhouse,” is exactly that — a greenhouse!! […]

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