Schoenheit then allows the core image of the ad to stand by itself, stripped of logo and text. The artist also then darkens the foreground and sky behind the billboard to further isolate the billboard image. The image is heightened but it is still seen in its environmental context. On display in the gallery are black and white prints, most of them 8 x 10 in size. The images are appealing, both documentary and fantastic at once.
Big Eyes works well as a signature for the entire show.
A freeway with cars is seen in the foreground against a darkened cityscape. Rising like an exotic totem out of the urban jumble is a luminous rectangle through which a pair of beautiful eyes regard the viewer. The work invokes the viewer's own gaze, an idea of beauty and the power of the image to cast a spell or to com- municate in an immediate manner. She, like the goddess in Big Eyes , regards the viewer with the composure of an even gaze. Angelyne is itself reflexive, a self-caricaturing icon of the unreal, plastic and extreme, with which the ordinary must necessarily contend.