A Brooklyn artist who vowed to sit on a toilet naked to poke fun at art snobs let it all hang out Saturday, stripping down and perching on a porcelain throne as visitors took turns gazing at her from another pot three feet away.
Lisa Levy, 59 — who said the project was “brewing in me for a long time” — began her 10 hours of loo-nacy by slipping out of a white silk robe and plopping down at the Christopher Stout Gallery in East Williamsburg.
The first visitor sat silently facing a stoic Levy for nearly 25 minutes, never flinching.
Gabriella BassOthers found the encounter more than a little awkward.
“When I was sitting there, I had no idea where to look. Her eyes? The toilet? Her body?” admitted Nariman Kiazand, 25, of Manhattan.
Sigal Starc, 18, of Belgium, said: “I was really uncomfortable because she looked really uncomfortable. I’m here all bundled up in my jacket, and she’s there completely naked.”
But Diego Barnes, 22, became a full-frontal participant and dropped trou as he sat across from Levy in front of 20 giggling onlookers.
“Why not try to steal the show a little bit?” he said.
He then snapped a selfie with Levy, who stayed frozen.
Gabriella Bass“I thought might as well not half-ass it,” he joked.
Another squatter flirted with Levy, toilets be damned.
“I told her, I know the idea of this isn’t to sexualize you, but you look very pretty,” David Scott, 44, said, blushing.
Levy, of Bushwick, says her loo-d show, titled “The Artist is Humbly Present,” is a parody of the artist Marina Abramovićc’s 2010 MoMA piece “The Artist is Present,” in which she sat in a chair across from visitors and gazed into their eyes.
“Ego and pretense has seriously f- -ked with the quality of work being made,” Levy said. “Rich people like the home-decorating kind of work more than the stuff that makes you think too hard.”
Gallery owner Christopher Stout admitted he had been “scared” to host Levy but said he had a change of heart.
“My gallery is about showing art that makes you feel uncomfortable,” he said.
Levy will repeat the stunt Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
