Eyes | Louise Bourgeois

Sculpting gargantuan eyes is nothing new for artist Louise Bourgeois -- she's done it multiple times over her storied career. What sets her 1995 installation Eyes apart from previous iterations is that the others at least had lids and often lashes to keep the actual eyes company.

Eyes, however, is simply comprised of two gargantuan disembodied orbs "floating" in Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park. Composed of granite and measuring 37"x37"x37", the eyeballs are set directly on the ground a considerable distance from one another, inviting the viewer's imagination to add in the giant head to which the eyes might belong.

Our assessment: If the work's title weren't so straightforward, we might be inclined to think the two massive spheres were meant to be a very different set of anatomical twins.

By Tom