William Wegman Installation

Lisa Baker, Saks Fifth Avenue and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, in collaboration with the Arts and Culture Commission of the City of Beverly Hills, are pleased to present a large scale, multi-screen video installation by internationally renowned artist, William Wegman. The installation, consisting of two works, Up Down Up, 2017 and Harmonics, 2019, will span across six storefront windows at the former Barneys New York building at 9570 Wilshire Boulevard, the future site of Saks Fifth Avenue’s expanded Beverly Hills location.

The installation will be unveiled on February 16 at 6:00 p.m. and will be on view daily from 5:30 p.m. until midnight through March 30, 2022.

In Up Down Up, Wegman’s Weimaraners Flo and Topper turn the screen into an elevator or people-mover, mirroring the pedestrians and the cars passing by, occasionally connecting with a glance as they shift along. In Harmonics, Wegman’s mastery of transformation is on display. The viewer experiences a line of twenty-eight perfectly synchronized dogs against a black backdrop. One moment the dogs are a chorus line, then an undulating wave.