Description:
Closely rendered eye, slightly blurred.

Label Text:
Label text from “The Art of Collecting: Contemporary Prints from the Risa Gerrig Collection,” September 10 – October 12, 2014:
Smith’s artwork typically focuses on the female body, often highlighting both external body parts and internal organs. Here, she presents a close up, intimate view of an eye which stretches off the edges of the page. The eye, often thought of as a window to the soul, assumes additional meaning with the title, The Sybil. In ancient Greece, a Sybil is a prophetess who possessed the power of divination. The way Smith frames the eye captures the viewer’s gaze, perhaps just long enough for her Sybil to make a prediction. - Shelby Miner (B.A. ’15)

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