Saturday, July 09, 2016
Barneys Windows Get Displays Worthy of an Artist
The Creators Project: It sounds like a riddle for New York’s cultural elite: what do the windows at Barneys and a Lower East Side gallery have in common? The answer is pretty straightforward: Margaret Lee. From May to June, windows at the Madison Avenue and Downtown Flagship Barneys stores featured displays designed by the artist and co-founder of the 179 Canal and 47 Canal galleries. Lee herself has exhibited work at New York galleries including Jack Hanley and Team. Recently, she was commissioned by Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts to create an installation exploring gender in the contexts of Abstract and Expressionist art
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I love to walk downtown and look at all the window displays, no matter where I am. I’m not sure I agree with calling these windows a theatre, more like an installation. Believe me, I love both, but if everything is either the same, or rotating but repetitive, I don’t believe that’s theatre. Nevertheless, these windows are beautifully set up to combine art and shopping. It’s interesting to see how the artist interprets a scene from a piece of clothing. The animal print coat and cactus is particularly intriguing. It basically is saying the coat is an animal in the desert. It could also be interpreted that humans are animals, or more literally, animal cruelty. The voices part of it is a little creepy. If I heard that walking down a street I would definitely stop and wonder where it was coming from. So it drags the viewer in on the basis of curiosity, and then the viewer is forced to stay and watch the installation, because of the depth and complexity of it.
I have always been interested in the art of window displays, I remember as a kid sitting in front of the store Anthropologie and watching the staff create these masterpieces in their windows. The beauty of a display that presents a subliminal message to sell is quite fascinating, ultimately the goal of window display artistry is to lure shoppers into the store and to sell to them.
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