Tony Tasset, Eye, 2007

steel, resin, oil paint, fiberglass

Through this gigantic, blue eyeball Tasset creates tension as the sculpture stares, larger than life, across the landscape and back at the viewer. Modeled after Tasset’s own eye, the never- blinking, constantly conscious piece watches over Laumeier day and night. The human eye is simultaneously unique, individual and emblematic. By focusing on a key part of the body, Tasset speaks to a commonality among us. It addresses how we engage and perceive each other while concurrently asserting a prophetic, perhaps even omniscient, presence.

Laumeier Sculpture Park Commission with funds from the Mark Twain Laumeier Endowment Fund

Location: Museum Circle