New York artist Elizabeth Murray, whose work derives from cartoons and pop art, created a 12-foot-high "celebration of motion, mischief, and monumentality" for the University of California's San Diego campus. Poised on its cedar toe, as if bounding through its eucalyptus grove site, "Red Shoe" "is not unlike something Mickey or Minnie Mouse might wear. . . ," Director Mary Beebee said of The Stuart Collection's thirteenth site-specific sculpture commission.

Readers of LASN's June 1994 issue will recall The Stuart Collection includes Alexis Smith's 560-foot-long tile "Snake Path" and oversized granite edition of Milton's "Paradise Lost."

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Murray's gigantic "Red Shoe" (shown before completion) makes a "maximalist" statement in campus setting of The Stuart Collection.