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“I wanted to put art in the context of everyday life,” Hershman Leeson said of her project for the Fifth Avenue department store Bonwit Teller. She created twenty-five window displays, combining the store’s mannequins with a range of materials, such as photographs, television sets, computers, tape recorders, mirrors, steam, and holographs. The scenes were narratively linked and explored themes of identity, commercialism, gender, and surveillance. Hershman Leeson extended the project beyond the store by installing one of the mannequins, called Bonnie, in various locations throughout the city.
414: Wipe Cycle, 2026
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Lynn Hershman Leeson
American, born 1941 45 works onlineSurveying Lynn Hershman Leeson’s long and relentlessly innovative career, it would be tempting to ascribe to the artist some uncanny power of technological foresight.
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Wipe Cycle
Gallery 414In the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists responded to a world increasingly shaped by mass media and consumer culture.
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