Cindy ShermanTerror and mockery meet in the portraits of Cindy Sherman exhibited at the Crocker Art Museum. Upon entering the dimly lit grand ballroom, one may begin to feel a slight sense of foreboding as the viewer looks around and discovers nine pairs of glowing eyes watching his every move. Sherman created his historic portraits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, nine of which are on display at the museum. In her portraits, she uses lush fabrics, lavish jewelry, and fake body parts to decorate herself in these self-portraits. His portraits are known to cause discomfort in viewers who find the general stereotypes depicted in his portraits amusing, but confusing and terrorizing. Sherman's Untitled #225 (Blond Woman) triggers these exact emotions. The portrait is a large, colorful photograph created in 1990. A young blonde woman resembling an 18th-century Madonna sits with one hand resting on her exposed artificial breast, as if nursing a baby. She is well dressed with a blue satin dress, small white pearls intertwined in her braided hair, and a tiara atop her head. His icy blue eyes look to the left with a hard, cold expression. With her chest pointed high, spewing fluids, in the same direction she's looking, it's hard to imagine what's going on in her head, but it's clear it's something almost vindictive and ruthless in nature. She may be pointing her chest at a man who betrayed or harassed her....