Cheryl Donegan Movies

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.

As the title suggests, a bodily metaphor, metabolism, is at play in the continuous cycle and recycle of images. As the models emerge and recede into...

This film refracts Donegan's earlier performance work through the lens of a studio art practice. The artist subverts the tradition of studio painting...

Life as seen through the lens of a plastic bottle.

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...

Donegan eats her way layer by iconic layer through a white bread and KRAFT American Cheese sandwich — crafting hearts, stars, faces and bunnies...

Juxtaposing two restagings of a melodramatic scene from Tommy, The Who's rock opera, Channeling analyzes the ways in which media cannibalizes,...

In this black and white performance tape, Donegan continues her ironic exploration of the process of making art. Working within the format of a music...

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...

To a compilation soundtrack of studio out-takes, including excerpts from the Beach Boys recording sessions for Good Vibrations, we see Donegan work...

A series of videos put together and updated regularly until Vine closed.

Donegan calls into question the institutional armature that surrounds a work of art, and investigates boundaries between "high" and "low" culture.

Refuses began as a visual extension of Carolyn Bergdahl's poem Fuses (after Carolee Schneemann). Just as Bergdhl's poem speaks to Schneemann's...

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...

Writes Donegan: "... The video is the centerpiece of a large project comprised of paintings and video inspired by the Jean-Luc Godard film Le...

Director Donegan recasts herself as Warhol superstar Viva from his 1967 film "Nude Restaurant".

Scraps of color and pattern slide across the screen in a stop and start progression that frustrates all sense of spatiality and depth. David...

An obscure, appropriated Yoko Ono monologue is applied to a banal setting.

Presenting "Cheryl" the home-shopping motivator as a surrogate and cheesy consumer goods as art objects, Cheryl the artist questions hype and...

Donegan sets up a series of charged relationships -- between artist and model, art object and artistic "gesture," performer and viewer. The "lieder"...