"Swoon" is her first large work in which the viewer does not see or sense the artist's physical involvement, and it represents a big, largely successful step.
Benton is represented by vigorous examples and viewers sense that there was some flow from realism into Abstract Expressionism.
Even viewers ignorant of their accomplishments will sense their authority and, absurd as it may sound in a Surrealist context, their "seriousness."
Most of the work tends to be in groups and it is in the serial works that the viewer will sense a certain questioning and re-focusing.
The renovations are still underway at the Ely house, but a viewer can sense a new ease, a feeling of flow, in the current first-floor exhibition.
And I have faith that viewers will sense it, too.
Although the terms of this sculpture remain ambiguous, viewers can sense it's about the breath of life.
Even a tiny error in the representation of a virtual character can cause viewers to sense that they are looking at a contrived figure.
And I think viewers sense that.
Indeed, several viewers sensed the chimney's link to the past, as intended by the artist.