Cheryl Donegan Trailers
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Cheryl Donegan was born in 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut. She received her B.F.A. in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. at Hunter College in New York. She was an artist-in-residence at ART/OMI, and Banff Center for Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada. Her tapes have been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and festivals including the 1995 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York.
Most Popular Cheryl Donegan Trailers
Total trailers found: 23
18 June 2012
Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images and essences of such downtown luminaries as Richard Foreman, Ken Jacobs, and Carolee Schneemann, Hills’s cinematic inventions literally turn the screen upside down and inside out.
07 June 1994
To the accompaniment of the only extant recording of James Joyce reading from his own work, Donegan uses a clear cellophane hood and a pane of glass to create another of her "face paintings.
17 August 1994
Donegan eats her way layer by iconic layer through a white bread and KRAFT American Cheese sandwich — crafting hearts, stars, faces and bunnies as she goes.
31 January 2006
Refuses began as a visual extension of Carolyn Bergdahl's poem Fuses (after Carolee Schneemann). Just as Bergdhl's poem speaks to Schneemann's taboo-shattering 1964-66 film, Donegan's Refuses is a direct response to the poem.
12 February 2003
Scraps of color and pattern slide across the screen in a stop and start progression that frustrates all sense of spatiality and depth.
17 August 1998
In this black and white performance tape, Donegan continues her ironic exploration of the process of making art.
09 February 2010
The piece is a short lament and meditation on housework, heartbreak and posing, keeping up appearances and appearing to keep up.
05 July 2000
Life as seen through the lens of a plastic bottle.
01 August 1996
Writes Donegan: "... The video is the centerpiece of a large project comprised of paintings and video inspired by the Jean-Luc Godard film Le Mépris.
09 February 2005
An obscure, appropriated Yoko Ono monologue is applied to a banal setting.
05 February 1997
A recording of the Wilson Brothers trying to cut the single "Help Me Rhonda" under the overbearing scrutiny of father Murray, tells the story of the struggle to achieve the illusion of carefree, American fun.
15 February 2012
As the title suggests, a bodily metaphor, metabolism, is at play in the continuous cycle and recycle of images.
09 June 1998
Donegan calls into question the institutional armature that surrounds a work of art, and investigates boundaries between "high" and "low" culture.
02 February 2016
A series of videos put together and updated regularly until Vine closed.
08 July 2004
Shot at the Flushing Mall in Queens, New York, "Flushing" is tour of a mall that doesn't live up to the glossy standards of typical American consumer palaces, but is thereby, perhaps a better place to understand the yearnings for fantasy via retailing.
01 August 1994
To a compilation soundtrack of studio out-takes, including excerpts from the Beach Boys recording sessions for Good Vibrations, we see Donegan work through series of painterly gestures.
13 February 2008
Director Donegan recasts herself as Warhol superstar Viva from his 1967 film "Nude Restaurant".
07 January 1993
Milk pours from a plastic container into a woman's mouth. The woman swallows it, dribbles it back at the container, and spits it out.
06 July 2005
Presenting "Cheryl" the home-shopping motivator as a surrogate and cheesy consumer goods as art objects, Cheryl the artist questions hype and material value in a personality-driven art market.
15 June 1992
In this documentation of a performance at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, Donegan uses her body as an art-making tool, and toys with identity politics as well.
01 February 2000
This film refracts Donegan's earlier performance work through the lens of a studio art practice. The artist subverts the tradition of studio painting by using a computer to make simple line drawings.
06 June 2000
Donegan sets up a series of charged relationships -- between artist and model, art object and artistic "gesture," performer and viewer.
17 August 2001
Juxtaposing two restagings of a melodramatic scene from Tommy, The Who's rock opera, Channeling analyzes the ways in which media cannibalizes, revises, and resurrects itself.
