Chicago's Giant Eyeball
By Marcus Gilmer in Arts & Entertainment on Jun 25, 2010 3:40PM
We've received more than a few tweets and emails about the giant eyeball going up at Pritzker Park. Fear not, it's but a simple art installation by University of Illinois at Chicago professor Tony Tasset. The "three-story steel reinforced fiberglass scuplture of a human eyeball," called, appropriately, Eye, is being erected in hopes of being something of a tourist draw. Said Ty Tabing, executive director of the Chicago Loop Alliance, "This is going to be a pretty provocative piece and we think that everyone is going to be talking about it." Tasset told CNN, "More than anything, I would like people to think it's cool. My first job is always to make the space more interesting and I wanted to make something with a big impact." Tasset hopes to have the sculpture complete by July 7th and it will remain up until October.