Mary Beth Edelson

TV Head Spirit-Blue Eye
1973

A mixed media artwork featuring a black-and-white photograph of a nude female figure standing on a beach with a surreal overlay. The figure's head is replaced by a television set displaying a large blue eye. Above the figure, two large sketched eyes with blue irises appear to be connected to the TV head with dashed lines. Handwritten text at the bottom reads "TV HEAD SPIRIT BLUE EYE SEEING YOU LOOKING AT ME," and "EYE HEAD MARY BETH EDELMAN '73."
A mixed media artwork featuring a black-and-white photograph of a nude female figure standing on a beach with a surreal overlay. The figure's head is replaced by a television set displaying a large blue eye. Above the figure, two large sketched eyes with blue irises appear to be connected to the TV head with dashed lines. Handwritten text at the bottom reads "TV HEAD SPIRIT BLUE EYE SEEING YOU LOOKING AT ME," and "EYE HEAD MARY BETH EDELMAN '73."

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Date
1973

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Oil, wax crayon and collaged paper on gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Image: 8 1/4 × 7 9/16in. (21 × 19.2 cm)

Accession number
2018.175

Series
Woman Rising, 1973

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Beth Rudin DeWoody

Rights and reproductions
© Mary Beth Edelson

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