From a review, in the Boston Globe, April 2, 1999, of an exhibition featuring the city's best art of the 1990s:

The Kiki Smith "Pee Body"... is the masterpiece of the exhibition. It's in a long tradition of depictions of women being watched while engaged in highly private activities: David and Bathsheba, Susanna and the Elders, Bonnard's and Degas's bathers. Smith's crouching, life-size wax figure urinates gleaming golden beads: The magical quality of bodily fluids is an ongoing fascination of the artist's. The woman's posture and the sense of her weight, all on her heels, ring very true and make her seem all the more vulnerable to our gaze. Yet the gold streams emanating from her, pooling in Art Nouveau swirls, act for her as a halo does for a saint: They give her power.

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